The Trade War is Here: Some of the New “Facts of Life”
In Madeleine Albright’s new book, dramatically titled Fascism: A Warning, she slams the anti-globalization crowd, claiming yet again that globalization is here …
Better Off Without NAFTA, Part 1: Introduction—the US, Trump, and Facts and Fictions about Winners and Losers
Canada, Mexico, and the US: we could argue that any one of these nation-states “lost” because of NAFTA while the others “won”. …
How to Read Donald Trump Like Donald Duck
If an alien were to land on Earth, and listen only to Donald Trump, the impression the alien would get is that …
101 Things We Learned from WikiLeaks’ Podesta Emails
US voters have been given a rare, even unprecedented opportunity to look at the machinery inside an electoral campaign and a foundation, …
Donald Trump and Empire: An Assessment
“There is something unseemly about a nation conducting a foreign policy that involves it in the affairs of most of the nations …
Cosmopolitan Imperialism: Obama Does Anthropology in Laos?
“Obama, the cerebral son of an anthropologist”—this is how the Associated Press touted soon to be ex-president Barack Obama on his visit …
Immigration and Capital
Immigration, rightly or wrongly, has been marched to the frontline of current political struggles in Europe and North America. Whether exaggerated or …
Encircling Empire: Report #27 — Donald Trump’s “America First” Foreign Policy
This and previous issues have been archived on a dedicated site—please see: ENCIRCLING EMPIRE. For frequent updates, please “like” our Facebook page …
Globalization: Beyond Discontent
On Stiglitz, Joseph E. (2003). Globalization and its Discontents. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. “Today, globalization is being challenged around the …
The Wall: A Monument to the Nation-State
Reaction against globalization often takes a visceral nationalist turn in many parts of the globe, no less in the US where the …
Terminal Condition: Neoliberal Globalization
After decades of protests and riots against neoliberal structural adjustment; after anti-globalization mass movements flourished across North America and Europe; after a …