Middle East 4 Changeاقتصاد سیاسی حجاب اجباری
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Political economy of compulsory hejab احمد فخیم Ahmad Fakhim سالهاست که راست ایرانی، مدام بر طبل این ادعا میکوبد که: «آزادی فردی روی دیگر سکهی مالکیت شخصی یا مالکیت…
Russia’s Attempt at Reshaping the World Economy
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Ramzy Baroud Starting on May 31, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov embarked on a tour to Gulf Cooperation Council countries, where he visited Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, United Arab…
Afghanistan’s Impoverished People Live Amid Enormous Riches
Sunday, October 3, 2021
Vijay Prashad On September 25, 2021, Afghanistan’s Economy Minister Qari Din Mohammad Hanif said that his government does not want “help and cooperation from the world like the…
سلبمالکیت، پرولتریزهشدن و خیزشهای فرودستان عرب خوزستان
Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Ardeshir Mehrdad Ardeshir Mehrdad argues that the recent protests by the Arab population of Khuzestan province of Iran was not only the result of ethnic-national discrimination suffered by…
Spiralling poverty in Iran adds to pressure on regime
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Najmeh Bozorgmehr This time last year, Mohammad could still just about afford fruit and chicken for his three children. But as US sanctions and the coronavirus pandemic have…
Falling Behind: COVID, Climate Change, and Chaos
Saturday, August 8, 2020
Multiple Crises, Multiple Obstacles Mel Gurtov COVID-19 and the protests for racial justice have drawn attention away from the mostly bad news about the environment. Yes, the skies…
Iran jolts India to activate US sanctions loophole
Saturday, July 25, 2020
Kaveh Afrasiabi Earlier this month, authorities in New Delhi were rattled by reports from Iran that India had been expelled from a key investment project in favor of…
Defying U.S., China and Iran Near Trade and Military Partnership
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Farnaz Fassihi and Steven Lee Myers Iran and China have quietly drafted a sweeping economic and security partnership that would clear the way for billions of dollars of…
Iran Quietly Lowers the Temperature With U.S.
Saturday, May 30, 2020
Alissa J. Rubin and Farnaz Fassihi After years of increasing tensions that nearly led to war, Iran has moderated its approach to the West, shifting from a policy…
How Economic Misery Helped Fuel the Syrian War: Book review
Friday, May 15, 2020
Louis Proyect Ever since the civil war began in Syria in early 2011, the left has largely ignored the social and economic circumstances that led to a conflict…
The Beginning of the End for Oil?
Sunday, May 3, 2020
Michael T. Klare Energy analysts have long assumed that, given time, growing international concern over climate change would result in a vast restructuring of the global energy enterprise….
Covid-19 pandemic: A war economy?
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Michael Roberts If all country pandemics were the same, then the figure below would be how this pandemic will come to an end. The start-to-peak ratio of Covid-19…
Death of a radical intellectual
Monday, March 23, 2020
Yassamine Mather Professor Fariborz Raisdana, who died on March 16 in a Tehran hospital, was a leftwing economist, political activist and author, who lived and worked in Iran….
Global economy: The ’emerging market’ slump
Friday, March 20, 2020
Michael Roberts Forecasts of a global slump in the rest of 2020 are coming in droves from mainstream economists – it’s now the consensus that there will be…
Understanding Socialism by Richard Wolff: Book Review
Saturday, December 7, 2019
Michael Roberts The New York Times magazine has described Richard Wolff as “probably America’s most prominent Marxist economist”. And that is probably not an exaggeration as a description of this emeritus Professor of…
A global manufacturing recession
Saturday, October 5, 2019
Michael Roberts As we enter October, the global recession is with us – in manufacturing. The PMI manufacturing activity indexes for most of the major economies are below…
Neoliberal Capitalism at a Dead End
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik. Harry Magdoff’s The Age of Imperialism is a classic work that shows how postwar political decolonization does not negate the phenomenon of imperialism….
Are human rights history?
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Stefan-Ludwig Hoffman Not so long ago, human rights were seen as a way out of the crises of a divided world. From the late 1970s, almost all political…
Syria: Donor Conditionality, Sanctions, and the Question of Justice
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Omar Dahi. The question of donor conditionality and how it could be used to influence behavior and promote respect for human rights and political inclusion has increasingly gained…
The Iran Floods and US Sanctions: 10 Million at Risk, But Does Anyone Care?
Friday, April 19, 2019
Jan Oberg. You have certainly not heard much about this in the West. And it didn’t get a fraction of the media attention (and none of the hundreds of millions…
China’s Rise in the Middle East: Beyond Economics
Monday, March 11, 2019
Nicholas Lyall. The Obama administration’s “pivot” to Asia and away from the Middle East, followed by current President Donald Trump’s “America First” approach, has seen U.S. attention on…
Global Commodity Chains and the New Imperialism
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Intan Suwandi, R. Jamil Jonna and John Bellamy Foster To comprehend twenty-first-century imperialism we must go beyond analysis of the nation-state to a systematic investigation of the increasing…
Global Economy on the Brink
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Jack Rasmus. At Davos, Switzerland every year the global capitalist elite gather to party…and to prepare for the year ahead. This year more than 1500 private jets will…
Turkish Leader’s Election Woes
Sunday, February 17, 2019
Conn Hallinen. “Democracy is like a tram; you get off when you have reached your destination.” The comment by Recep Tayyip Erdogan—made more than 20 years ago when…
Iranian Revolution: 40 years of inequality
Saturday, February 16, 2019
Yassamine Mather. Commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the February 1979 uprising in Iran has been marked by dozens of scholarly seminars in Europe, numerous documentaries produced by…
Davos: climate change and rising inequality
Sunday, January 27, 2019
Michael Roberts. The two issues that the rich and famous in world capital like to discuss with wringing hands and weeping are: global warming and climate change; and…
It Is a New Era, But China’s Balancing Act Will Fail in the Middle East
Sunday, December 2, 2018
Ramzy Baroud. Although ties between Washington and Tel Aviv are stronger than ever, Israeli leaders are aware of a vastly changing political landscape. The US’ own political turmoil…
“Nothing to lose but their chains”
Sunday, November 25, 2018
Michael D Yates. “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Proletarians of All Countries, Unite!” These are the final three…
Understanding the global economy
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Michael Roberts. This year’s Historical Materialism conference in London seemed well attended and with younger participants. HM covers all aspects of radical thought: philosophical, political, cultural, psychological and…
Is the global economy heading for another recession?
Thursday, November 8, 2018
Michael Roberts. The mid-term Congressional elections saw a swing to the opposition Democrats in the Lower House and the Republicans were ousted as the majority party. This is…