Globalism

Le Monde diplomatique journalist and author of En finir avec l´eurolibéralisme (Putting an End to Euroliberalism), as well as numerous other books on European politics and economy, talks about the dark future of Greece and the Eurozone.

A century ago, novelist and muckraker Upton Sinclair weighed in on the political debate of his day with a play that predicted worldwide devastation when a radioactive element causes a deadly explosion.

Are we witnessing the decline of the US, the rise of China, or the birth of a new global order?

The political scientist, writer and campaigner for global justice Susan George talks about why the financial crisis is a moral crisis, and explains how to get our wayward leaders under control.

The last 70 years of modern warfare have been filled with atrocities, from the first bomb that exploded the tranquility of Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941 to the advent of large-scale saturation bombing of civilian centers culminating in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

There was plenty of disappointment and hardship this year. But the year also brought opportunities for transformation.