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Data Centre Investments Bad Deals
Opposition to data centres has been rapidly spreading internationally due to their fast-growing resource demands. DCs have been proliferating, driven by…
Oct 28
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Strengthening East Asian Cooperation via ASEAN?
Global South cooperation arrangements must evolve to better respond to pressing contemporary and imminent challenges, rather than risk being irrelevant…
Oct 14
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No African Development from Western Trade Policies
The World Bank’s 1981 Berg Report provided the blueprint for structural adjustment, including economic liberalisation in Africa. Urging trade…
Oct 7
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September 2025
Beware Independent Central Banks
President Trump’s snide barbs against his appointee, Fed Chair Jerome Powell, have revived support for central bank independence – long used by powerful…
Sep 23
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North Worsens Tropical Catastrophe
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have risen over the last two centuries, with current and accumulated emissions per capita from rich nations greatly…
Sep 9
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August 2025
A New Non-Alignment for the Global South
The Global South had no voice in shaping the economically neoliberal and politically neoconservative hegemony leading to today’s conflicts. We need…
Aug 26
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Inequality Worsens Planetary Heating
The accumulation of still growing greenhouse gas emissions in an increasingly unequal world is accelerating planetary heating. This is worsening…
Aug 12
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July 2025
Bullying Southeast Asia with Tariff Threats
US President Trump has successfully used tariff threats to achieve economic, political and even personal goals. These threats, reminiscent of…
Jul 29
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Trump Tech Big Bro: Monopoly Is Best
Trump’s billionaire cronies want more monopoly profits, not competition. With more policies crafted for them, wealth concentration is set to become…
Jul 15
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Trump Tech Big Bro: Monopoly Is Best
Trump’s billionaire cronies want more monopoly profits, not competition. With more policies crafted for them, wealth concentration is set to become…
Jul 15
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Trump Undresses Rival Trade Myths
President Trump’s tariffs have exposed neoliberal trade ideology and undermined corporate lobbying in the name of free trade. But his rhetoric has also…
Jul 1
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June 2025
Weaponizing Food Worsens Starvation
Wars, economic shocks, planetary heating and aid cuts have worsened food crises in recent years, with 300 million people now threatened by starvation.
Jun 17
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