Economics
Is DeepSeek China’s Sputnik moment?
January 31, 2025A Chinese chatbot turned the world’s AI industry upside down and wiped a trillion dollars off the values of America’s biggest tech companies.
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‘Bosses back in command’: Capitalist oligarchy fuels new Trump government
January 24, 2025The new administration is state monopoly capitalism on steroids, but politically, it also represents the beginning of a descent toward fascism.
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The pillars of the post-World War II world are crumbling
January 15, 2025There is no lack of calls for reform of the major pillars that underpin U.S. dominance in the economic, political, and military fields.
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Relief for Cuba from U.S. terrorist designation, but for how long?
January 15, 2025Better late than never: Solidarity groups welcome Biden’s overdue change of policy but prepare for anti-Cuba onslaught under Trump.
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The death of the Soviet Union: Our Moscow correspondent reports in 1991
December 20, 2024On Dec. 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union, and the red hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. The next day, Dec. 26, the USSR...
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