Rumors have it that the remaining months of 2020 may bring drastic and explosive changes in the world’s financial system. But such “doomsday” rumors have been floating around every beginning of fall during the last few years. Why? – The US dollar is getting weaker and weaker. It is not quite on a free fall, but still remains a major[Read More…]
Train of thought To start with, here are some recent quotations that weigh heavily on the negative aspects of the US$ and its role as the global reserve currency, also known as the petrodollar. One of the current global issues is refugees, in Europe and elsewhere: These waves of migration – and the anti-immigrant backlash that has done so much[Read More…]
Goldman Sachs has issued a bold warning Tuesday that the dollar is in danger of losing its status as the world’s reserve currency. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has put a spotlight on the suddenly growing concern over inflation in the U.S. With the U.S. Congress closing in on another round of fiscal stimulus to shore up the pandemic-ravaged economy, and[Read More…]
Most working people think of the buck as the way they pay their bills. But its use goes far beyond the USA’s borders. The greenback is the major world currency for trade and finance. This international role bestows vast power on the U.S. government and the rich. But its status doesn’t help ordinary people much. Fundamentally, the exchange[Read More…]
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In Responding To COVID Crisis, Prioritise Human And Environmental Health, Learning Lessons From The First Wave 
Comprehensive Health Reform Program Will Benefit All Developing Countries 
The Second Wave of Covid: The role of the political leaders – Has self-interest superseded people’s welfare? 
Spending More On Nukes: STRATCOM’s Nuclear Death Wish 
Guru Tegh Bahadur, Sikhism and Mughals 
India and the Second Wave of COVID-19: How the Modi Government Complacency Caused the Horror 
Palestine’s Moment of Reckoning: On Abbas’ Dangerous Decision to ‘Postpone’ Elections 
Hartosh Singh Bal to be given the first Mooknayak journalism award 
Marx in this pandemic point 
BJP Suffers Defeat in Strongholds Varanasi, Ayodhya and Mathura in Panchayat Elections 
Torch of farmers agitation in Delhi border continues to shimmer like a Prairie fire Migrant Workers Stranded Yet Again 
Critical Comments on the Principal Scientific Advisor’s Interview 
COVID Disaster Is Transforming How India Handles Its Dead 
Going to Court: The EU Sues AstraZeneca 
U.S.’s new normal: hotter, wetter, shorter, heavier, drier and more extreme weather 
Decimation of an Empire: Understanding the Left Front’s Debacle in West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021 
The Hindutva Cow Urine Cultural Nationalism And The Corona Crisis 
Despite Giving Good Results, Cess-Based Welfare of Workers Faces Uncertain Future 
Tackling Corona: Think Local, Act Local 
Can Guantánamo Ever Be Shut Down? 
Wage Stagnation in the Global North 
Humanity Must Choose Between Two Very Different Approaches to Checking Climate Change 
Question and Resist the Power 
Breakthrough in Afghan peace process! 
Tribute to actress Nargis on 40th death anniversary 
Release Akhil Gogoi Immediately 
Surveillance, counter Russian “propaganda”, Snowden and World Press Freedom Day 
African Human Rights Vs. Western Human Rights 
Is America hoping its withdrawal from Afghanistan makes that war-ravaged country China’s problem now? 
67 Years In The Peace Movement 
Understanding the Wider Health Crisis is Important for Adequate Response 
Burning on Both Ends–Relations of Dominance Cause Distress on Both Sides 
Hurricane alert! 
Squad & Co: Unite as a Block to Downsize Biden’s Military Budget 
Reports from Afghanistan: General’s comment, blast, cost 
Quibbling Over Cruelties: Human Rights Watch, Israel and Apartheid 
On the Insidious Discourse of “Terrorism” in the US and How it Functions to Demonize Palestine Advocates and Muslims 
When I founded Countercurrents.org in 2002, Disha Ravi who was arrested for sedition yesterday was a two-year-old toddler. In 2002, the CO2 level in the atmosphere was 370 ppm. Now it is 415 ppm. In just 19 years CO2 levels increased by just over 2ppm/year. The level of cumulative greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, including Methane, Nitrous Oxide etc is[Read More…]
