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By Jacob NordangardGlobal Research, Through its Young Global Leaders program, the World Economic Forum has been instrumental in shaping a world order that undermines all democratic principles. For several decades, this program has nurtured compliant leaders acting as WEF agents in governments around the world. The consequences are far-reaching and may turn out to be devastating for humanity. I have to say then I mention names like Mrs Merkel, even Vladimir Putin and so on they all have been Young Global Leaders of The World Economic Forum. But what we are really proud of now with the young generation like Prime Minister Trudeau, President of Argentina and so on, is that we penetrate the cabinets… It is true in Argentina and it is true in France now… (Klaus Schwab)Click here or the ima...

BY BALIHAR SANGHERA – ELMIRA SATYBALDIEVA Protestors setting up a yurt in Aktobe, 4 January 2022. Photograph Source: Esetok – CC BY-SA 4.0 Blame ‘free’ market reforms that benefit the rich and powerful at the expense of the working class for the country’s recent protests. The recent protests in oil-rich Kazakhstan have highlighted the devastating effects of rent extraction. The country’s largest sellers of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), including KazMunaiGas, Kazgermunai, CNPC-AktobeMunaiGas and Kazakhoil, have been accused by the government of increasing fuel prices by abusing their oligopoly power. When the state lifted its price cap on LPG at the start of 2022, the market price doubled within a couple of days. The impact was immediately felt by poor and vulnerabl...

BY MEDEA BENJAMIN Boric in the celebrations after his victory in the 2021 presidential election. Photograph Source: Fotografoencampana – CC BY-SA 4.0 This year, 2021, began with a huge sense of relief as Trump left office. We hoped to emerge from the ravages of COVID, pass a hefty Build Back Better (BBB) bill, and make significant cuts to the Pentagon budget. But, alas, we faced a January 6 white nationalist insurrection, two new COVID mutations, a sliced-and-diced BBB bill that didn’t pass, and a Pentagon budget that actually INCREASED! It was, indeed, a disastrous year, but we do have some reasons to cheer: 1. The U.S. survived its first major coup plot on January 6 and key right-wing groups are on the wane. With participants in the insurrection being char...

The world is in crisis. The world is on fire. Revolution has become more urgent than ever before. On the eve of 2022, can we achieve it, asks  neil faulkner. The neoliberal era (c. 1975 onwards) has been characterised by a) an accelerating compound crisis of the world capitalist system, and b) an unprecedented succession of explosive popular revolts from below. These two features of the era are, of course, intimately connected. Three times in its history, capitalism has responded to protracted economic crisis by radically remodelling its way of working. The Long Depression, beginning in 1873, was the context for a shift to imperialism, which involved a tight nexus of state, banks, and industry, aggressive competition for raw materials and markets, and rising internationa...