by Daniel Krähmer | Oct 13, 2011
IT is obviously silly to push for austerity in the midst of a recession, not just silly but cruel, since it prolongs the pain of unemployment. The recession is caused by a deficiency of aggregate demand. To overcome it what is necessary is an increase in demand which...
by Daniel Krähmer | Oct 15, 2011
The uprising in Libya was inspired by the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt. But the intervention of Nato forces changed the situation dramatically. Simon Assaf asks if Libya is now destined to become a client state of Western powers or whether its revolution could...
by Daniel Krähmer | Oct 24, 2011
“Information Clearing House” — On 14 October, President Barack Obama announced he was sending United States special forces troops to Uganda to join the civil war there. In the next few months, US combat troops will be sent to South Sudan, Congo and...
by Daniel Krähmer | Oct 24, 2011
Neither Western leaders trying to wring moral mileage out of Gaddafi’s death, nor UN officials denouncing it as illegal, deserve our backing. It is hard to know who comes out worse from the grisly aftermath of Colonel Gaddafi’s death. Is it Western leaders...
by Daniel Krähmer | Nov 1, 2011
Most people interested in Syrian affairs used to believe that the country was extremely stable. The regime’s media fed this belief, constantly reiterating the assertion that Syria was the most secure and stable country in the world. In fact, however, this stability...