The U.S. credit card system siphons off excessive amounts of money from merchants. In a typical $100 credit card purchase, only $97.25 goes to the seller. The rest goes to banks and processors. But who can compete with Visa and MasterCard?
Alcohol consumption is one damaging effect among many that flow from this dominant socio-economic system
Open your hand and breathe into the palm. Now close your fist. What have you caught?
Camilo's visit accomplished the goal. Media interviews in Spanish and English reached many thousands. He brought information and analysis which has been largely censored or ignored in coverage of Nicaragua.
Bahrain is celebrating what is known as "the week of independence", where several celebrations take place to commemorate the end of the British mandate on 16th August 1971.
Throughout the world heat waves, flooding and uncontrollable wildfires have caused widespread havoc, lives have been lost, homes destroyed, livelihoods ruined.
The problem extends well beyond one particular question. For a long time now the world has been run on the presumption that all problems are easily soluble.
Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson's remarks about veiled women looking like "letter boxes" is the tip of a very large iceberg
The life of Felicia Langer, who died this year, is a shining example of a Jewish Israeli who championed the cause of the Palestinian people
For those of us who study Israel and Zionism from the vantage point of Britain, there are some things we are able to predict with unerring accuracy