
by Martin Jacques, Award-winning journalist, columnist, essayist and author of When China Rules the World: the Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World May 10, 2012 (TSR) - The financial crisis has seen the global economy turned on its head. And it is China rather than America that is set to dominate [...]

by Ernest Callenbach, writer and editor best known for his visionary novel ECOTOPIA (April 3, 1929 – April 16, 2012) May 9, 2012 (TSR) – NOTE: This document was found on the computer of Ecotopia author Ernest Callenbach (1929-2012) after his death. To all brothers and sisters who hold the dream in their hearts of a future world in [...]

by Ron Keeva Unz, Chairman, English for the Children April 25, 2012 (TSR) - The rise of China surely ranks among the most important world developments of the last 100 years. With America still trapped in its fifth year of economic hardship, and the Chinese economy poised to surpass our own before the end of this decade, [...]

April 3, 2012 (TSR) - Although Kofi Annan’s track record at the UN is an indisputable success in terms of management and efficiency, he has been sharply criticized for his political shortcomings. As Secretary General, he aspired to bring the Organization into line with the unipolar world and the globalization of U.S. hegemony. He called into [...]

March 7, 2012 (TSR) - The study of world power has been blighted by Eurocentric historians who have distorted and ignored the dominant role China played in the world economy between 1100 and 1800. John Hobson’s [1] brilliant historical survey of the world economy during this period provides an abundance of empirical data making the case [...]

February 4, 2012 (TSR) - Against whom is the European Union’s so-called “oil embargo on Iran” really aimed at? This is an important geo-strategic question. Aside from rejecting the new E.U. measures against Iran as counter-productive, Tehran has warned the member states of the European Union that the E.U. oil embargo against Iran will hurt them [...]

Feb. 1, 2012 (TSR) - It’s an old cliché to say that technology in itself is neither good nor bad, but that all depends on how you use it. In the case of Information and Communications Technologies, and their out-of-control problem child, the internet, that has so revolutionised the world, today we seem to be at [...]

Jan. 17, 2012 (TSR) - When our founding fathers declared our independence from Great Britain in 1776 the colonists were already in the middle of a bloody and costly war to secure their freedom. Once the war was successfully concluded it was necessary to create a new nation with a form of government that would not [...]

Jan. 13, 2012 (TSR) - This historical review raises an important issue: Is the Pentagon seeking to trigger military confrontation in the Persian Gulf with a view to providing a pretext and a justification to wage an all out war on the Islamic Republic of Iran? As documented by Richard Sanders, this strategy has been used throughout [...]
Jan. 10, 2012 (TSR) - The focus of this article is to explore the vicious and unlawful history of US intervention in Iran’s government. It’s from my brief: War with Iraq and Afghanistan, rhetoric for war with Iran: In 1953, the United States CIA led by one of President Theodore Roosevelt’s grandsons, initiated a coup in Iran [...]