US Electoral Politics and the Illusion of Control

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By William Hawes We have all been told a lie. The lie that says democracy can be maintained only through voting, through purely representative, parliamentarian...

Decline of Parties, Rise of Hucksterism (and Trump)

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By Timothy Braatz  The influx of hundreds of millions of dollars into US presidential elections has undermined the influence of Democratic and Republican leaders in...

Latin America’s Challenge: More and Better Saving for Development

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By Eduardo Cavallo and Tomás Serebrisky The Latin American and Caribbean region is trapped in a vicious cycle of low savings and poor use of...

Blinded by Nostalgia

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By Yuval Levin Recourse to a glorious past is of course nothing new in political rhetoric. And Americans suggest that a return to that state...

Rio 2016 and the (Broken) Promises of the Olympic Games

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By Simon Darnell and Rob Millington  The 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro were to catalyse and signify Brazil’s final transition into a modern, developed...

Assad’s Death Warrant

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By Mike Whitney The conflict in Syria is not a war in the conventional sense of the word. It is a regime change operation where...

Obama-Duterte Blow Up: What the Corporate Media Doesn’t Get

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By Wayne Madsen The western corporate media generalised the Duterte-Obama feud as one between a statesmanlike US president and a Filipino Donald Trump. For Obama...

How the Brexit Referendum was Trumped: Personality, Protest and Patriotism

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By Glyn Atwal and Douglas Bryson  In this article, the authors contend the electioneering style of what they label “Trumpism” was distinctly manifested and a...

Reflections on the Post-Aquino Philippine-China Relations: Taking into Account the Realities of Geopolitics

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By Renato Cruz De Castro This article examines how the Philippines challenged China’s expansive maritime claim in the South China Sea during President Aquino’s term...

Philippines 2016: Navigating Between the US and China

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By Dan Steinbock               In the past six years, Washington and Manila have been cementing a military alliance, which is reassuring to many Filipinos but leaves...

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