The year 2011 began with a series of shattering, wrathful explosions from the Arab peoples. Is this springtime the inception of a second ‘awakening of the Arab world?' Or will these revolts bog down and finally prove abortive – as was the case with (...)
Meeting in the capital of Europe from 14 to 17 April, the BRussells Tribunal brought together intellectuals and activists from Europe, the US and the Arab world to hear testimony on the role of the Project for the New American Century think-tank in (...)
The opening of the South's markets to Northern agricultural produce would destroy Southern agriculture and the livelihoods of billions. The only answer for the South is to do as the North already does: to take collective measures to protect its (...)
The US may claim to be a democracy, says Samir Amin, but its religious rhetoric betrays totalitarian ambitions
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Today, the United States is governed by a junta of war criminals who took power through a kind of coup. That coup may have been preceded (...)
The present crisis has demonstrated the ambitions of the United States -- nothing short of bringing the entire planet under its military control, writes Samir Amin
From the 1980s on, and with the collapse of the Soviet system, the ruling class in (...)
By Samir Amin
The dominant discourse of our era repeats endlessly and ad nauseam the principle of equality between political democracy and the market activity of the economy -- without any further concern for establishing its reality, or even its (...)