Walmart is in advanced talks to sell a majority stake in its U.K
grocery chain Asda to Sainsbury, a sign that the retailer aims to reduce risk in one of the world's ...

On Thursday 24 May, rap artist Josep Miquel Arenas, better-known as Valtonyc, was supposed to turn himself in to Spanish police to start his ...

The capitalist crisis is relentless, ravaging one region of the world after another
As exemplified by Europe's ?weakest link,? economic and political turmoil in even ...

Remember how, a decade ago, we told you that the Internet was running out of IPv4 addresses? Well, it took a while, but that day is here now: Asia, Europe, and ...

By Sheldon Birkett and Tobias Fontecilla, Research Associates at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs
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Heads are beginning to roll thanks to the Panama Papers
The Icelandic Prime Minister has been the first casualty as a result of the leaked data from the ...

A recent study on tax evasion and inequality carried out by a group of Scandinavian economic researchers reveals just how big a part of the upper 0.01%

's ...

The virtual currency bitcoin is getting a very real boost on Monday with the opening of the first licensed U.S
exchange
Coinbase Inc., a startup backed by $106 ...

Almost everyone is involved from across the Establishment, the rich and the ruling class: current and former heads of state; business magnates; and celebrities.

By Andrew Lumsden, Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs
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On the night of December 28, ...

In spite of his relative obscurity outside the region, Errol Walton Barrow deserves to be recognized not only as a hero in Barbados, but also as one of the giants ...

The Dominican Republic and Haiti have become major routing points and trafficking destinations for drugs moving South America on their way to the U.S
and ...

To commemorate July 4, 1776, here are 1776 songs about America, with a Spotify playlist for you to stream them all.

The scandal enveloping Prince Andrew - following allegations in a US law court that he may have been gifted an underage girl for sex by his paedophile friend, ...

By Nicholas Birns, Senior Research Fellow at COHA, The Council on Hemispheric Affairs, as well as an associate professor of The New School
Veteran U.S
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Alejandro Sanchez, Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Crossover analyses between fictive works such as zombie films and ...

Once again the Democratic Republic of Congo has been through months of turmoil, soldiers defecting en masse from the Congolese Army (FARDC) followed by ...

What is value? This question has perplexed the human mind for more than 2000 years
The classical bourgeois economists grappled with the question, as did ...