Arnold Böcklin (Switzerland), Isle of the Dead, 1880. What constitutes a crisis worthy of global attention? When a regional bank in the United States falls victim to the inversion of the yield curve (i.e., when short-term bond interest rates become higher than long-term rates), the Earth nearly stops spinning. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
Ever Fonseca (Cuba), Homenaje a la paz (‘Homage to Peace’), 1970. While the United States began its illegal war against Iraq in 2003, Cuba’s President Fidel Castro spoke in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ‘Our country does not drop bombs on other peoples’, he said, ‘nor does it send thousands of planes to bomb cities … Our
Once the Russian government decided that integration with Europe and the U.S. was not possible, the West began to portray Putin as diabolical, writes Vijay Prashad.
By Vijay Prashad
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
While the United States began its illegal war against Iraq