There are several arguments that keep recurring whenever the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are discussed. Two in particular deserve a closer look: that Russia is barely moving and therefore must be losing,…
Has the Fear of Losing the Oil Fund…
Norway is under pressure. Not necessarily through an ultimatum on paper from Washington or Brussels, but through an economic reality we have created ourselves. We have built up a national fortune of more than 22,000…
The UN Cries Out for Peace While the…
What is unfolding at the UN General Assembly in New York this week should worry the whole world. The organisation created to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war is desperately trying to find…
Latin America Must Refuse to Kneel to Washington
The United States is once again behaving as if Latin America were American property. The Monroe Doctrine has been dusted off, polished up and turned into practical great-power politics. Donald Trump speaks openly about American…
On My Seventieth Birthday I Ask: Who the…
On my seventieth birthday I feel less need for polite circumlocutions and a greater need to say things as they are. I have lived long enough to see how war, power and propaganda work. I…
25 Years of War After 9/11
Twenty-five years have passed since 11 September 2001. Almost 3,000 people were killed in the terrorist attacks on the United States. It was a horrific crime that changed the world. But a quarter of a…
The Dollar’s Power Rests on the World Needing…
Deutsche Bank’s new role as a renminbi clearing bank in Frankfurt is more than a technical financial development. Combined with the BRICS countries’ expansion of alternative financial institutions, Russia’s economic resilience and the increasingly heavy…
The Dollar’s Power Rests on the World Needing…
Deutsche Bank's new role as renminbi clearing bank in Frankfurt is more than a piece of technical financial news. Together with the BRICS countries' development of alternative financial institutions, Russia's economic resilience and the ever…
100 Countries in the Crosshairs: Bessent Unveils Global…
US treasury secretary Scott Bessent yesterday made a bizarre threat to isolate the world if it did not adopt Washington’s new round of sanctions against the Iranians. Details will be released today. “And any nation…