By Michael Roberts In 2023, it was the first time in recorded history that the global surface temperature of the planet breached 2.0°C above the
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Umar Shahid, a supporter of the The Struggle in Pakistan looks at the Pakistan economy and the recent austerity budget. ***** Pakistan’s recent elections ushered
By Michael Roberts Elections for the European Assembly or European Union (EU) parliament finish today. Citizens in 27 member states of the EU are voting
By Michael Roberts About this time last year, I tackled the subject of artificial intelligence (AI) and the impact of the new generalised intelligence language
By Michael Roberts This blog was originally published by Michael Roberts on Saturday, 1 June 2024. The original article can be found here. ************** Mexico
By Michael Roberts South Africa has a general election today with 28m citizens registered to vote. Since the end of the apartheid regime three decades
By Michael Roberts Ruchir Sharma has a book out called What went wrong with capitalism? Ruchir Sharma is an investor, author, fund manager and columnist
By Michael Roberts Last Tuesday, the trade and technology war launched by the US on China back in 2019 took another ratchet up. The US
A new Spring for Labour?
By Michael Roberts This post was first published on May Day in the Lebanon journal, Project Zero, in Arabic. https://alsifr.org/new-era-labourer May Day is traditionally celebrated
By Michael Roberts The liberal leftist economist and Nobel (Riksbank) prize winner Joseph Stiglitz has another book out to proclaim the benefits of what he