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After El Salvador, Central African Republic goes for bitcoin

4 May 2022

On 27 April 2022, the Central African Republic adopted Bitcoin as legal tender alongside the CFA Franc (Franc of the Financial Community of Africa). Bitcoin trading will not be taxed.
In September 2021, El Salvador was the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, incurring (…)

Washington against EU Directive on digital markets

22 September 2021

The United States is blocking the European Digital Markets Act, a legislative regulatory proposal. Not so much because it is unfavorale to the US tech giants, but because it allows Russian and Chinese companies to get into the game.
The European Commission intends to clamp down on Google, (…)

Contribution of Vladimir Putin to the 2nd Forum of the Silk Road

by Vladimir Putin

Beijing (China) | 27 April 2019

Mr Chairman, Mr Xi Jinping, colleagues,
It is obvious that ensuring stable and sustained economic growth and strengthening comprehensive links between countries and integration associations on the Eurasian subcontinent requires an advanced transport, energy and telecommunications (…)

G20 Leaders’ Communique Hangzhou Summit

5 September 2016

1. We, the Leaders of the G20, met in Hangzhou, China on 4-5 September 2016.
2. We met at a time when the global economic recovery is progressing, resilience is improved in some economies and new sources for growth are emerging. But growth is still weaker than desirable. Downside risks remain (…)

China deploys in the Near East

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 25 January 2016

The Chinese President, Xi Jinping, has embarked on a tour of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Officially, he will not be speaking of politics, but only of economy. China is proposing that the states of the Near East participate in the construction of a new « Silk Road » in (…)

Hit by the crisis, Spain moves into recession

by Jérome Duval

30 June 2010

Profoundly affected by the financial crisis, the Spanish economy has moved into recession. Madrid has been compelled, or has deemed it necessary, to genuflect before the International Monetary Fund which has saddled it with a harsh austerity plan. The Zapatero government caved in even before the (…)

Greece: The Curse of Three Generations of Papandreou’s

by James Petras

New York (USA) | 23 March 2010

From his vantage point as former adviser to one of the Papandreou governments, James Petras examines how the Socialist Papandreou dynasty has, ever since World War II, relentlessly turned Greece into a client state, surrendering sovereignty and sacrificing class solidarity for patronage. (…)

ALBA drops the dollar and envisions a military alliance against the US

17 October 2009

The Heads of State and Government of countries belonging to the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, ALBA, met in Cochabamba (Bolivia) where they signed a treaty creating a new virtual currency, dubbed the Sucre.
The currency - named after General Antonio José de Sucre, Simón Bolivar’s (…)

Why Are Indian Farmers Committing Suicide and How Can We Stop This Tragedy?

by Vandana Shiva

23 May 2009

The factors that have caused 200,000 suicides in India are rooted in the policies of trade liberalization and corporate globalization which ensnare farmers in a spiral of indebtedness, generating despair.

“Don’t blink: the world is tilting on its axis”

by Bob Geldof

23 June 2005

A year ago, when I suggested Tony Blair and Gordon Brown to establish a Commission for Africa, I expected in secret a political success, open up a public debate about the greatest problem of our time. The success or failure of our efforts greatly would depend upon the will and capacity of the (…)

“The Central America Free Trade Agreement is A Win-Win”

by Robert B. Zoellick

3 June 2005

Henry Stimson is best known for having been Franklin Roosevelt’s secretary of war, but before this, 80 years ago, he played a memorable role in the history of Latin America. He acted as a mediator to put an end to the civil war in Nicaragua; negotiated a ceasefire as well as free elections, but (…)