Imperial world: From colonialism to capitalism
BY CENK KAAN ADASOY APR 19, 2023 – daily sabah It is clear that since the first civilizations of mankind (known to us on a large scale), imperial aspirations have […]
How Christianity Influenced the Development of Capitalism in Medieval Europe
VIA BASIC BOOKS Jacob Soll on Piety and Profits in the Middle Ages By Jacob Soll September 9, 2022 In many ways, the story of medieval economic thought begins with the life […]
The clash of cultures
Jan 03,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Harold James PRINCETON — Historian Samuel Huntington’s famous thesis that the post-Cold War world would be defined by a “clash of civilisations” turned out to be quite wrong. What we have instead is a clash of cultures within civilisations, which ultimately make civilisation itself […]
US has become a country of the rich, by the rich and for the rich
JEFFREY D. SACHS December 21, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/r8y9c A year on from Joe Biden’s narrow election victory over Donald Trump, the US remains on a knife-edge. Many political outcomes […]
Interview with Dr. Farooq Mahmood: ‘There are inherent contradictions in current day capitalism’ Part I
Dr. Farooq Mahmood ECONOMICS 7th January 2021 Capitalism is sick and the disease is only getting worse. The coronavirus pandemic, unprecedented in its magnitude, is sending a fearsome warning to […]
Does Capitalism Contain the Seed of its own Destruction?
AHMED DANYAL ARIF CAPITALISM13th September 2020 Ahmed Danyal Arif, UK Today more than ever, our civilization is based on the domination of Chronos, the god of time and clocks, constantly […]
After coronavirus the government and business should agree to bring in a more caring capitalism
Source: Independent The latest measures will help but we have to start thinking about the long term, writes Andrew Grice According to Albert Einstein: “In the midst of every crisis, […]
The George Soros philosophy – and its fatal flaw
The long read Unlike most of the billionaire class, George Soros is not an out-of-touch plutocrat, but a provocative thinker committed to progressive ideals – which is what makes his […]
Emperors and Empires
Apr 29,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Ali Kassay For many centuries, trade was the mainstay of most economies. Empires and civilisations made a living from transporting commodities, such as silk […]
A new Gilded Age? Wealth is more concentrated than ever before
Billionaires around the globe have amassed a combined wealth of $6 trillion — don’t expect things to change Charlie May10.27.2017• The world may soon witness a new Gilded Age. […]
The evils of Capitalism and Communism
The biggest evil of Capitalism is that the wealth of the nation is amassed in the hands of a limited few and the rest of the nation becomes a prey to want and poverty. It was on account of this iniquity that Communism gained its roots. lt is based on […]
Breakup of EU and NATO could avoid World War III
By Paul Craig Roberts The Brexit Vote? What does it mean? Hopefully, a breakup of the EU and NATO and, thereby, the avoidance of World War III. The EU and NATO are evil institutions. These two institutions are mechanisms created by Washington in order to destroy the sovereignty of European peoples. […]
Mafia now “Italy’s No.1 bank” as crisis bites: Real capitalism coming in
Courtesy (Reuters) – Organized crime has tightened its grip on the Italian economy during the economic crisis, making the Mafia the country’s biggest “bank” and squeezing the life out of thousands of small firms, according to a report on Tuesday. Extortionate lending by criminal groups had become a “national emergency,” […]
Why Banks Shun 30 Million Americans?: The Unbanked and the Debanked
CNBC: They are 30 million consumers, representing a quarter of U.S. households, who earn a collective $1.3 trillion a year. But banks don’t want to serve them, because they lose money. And the nonfinancial institutions who do serve them may not be offering them much value in the long term. […]