There are multiple avenues for governments and corporations to ensure academia and think tanks serve their agendas, explains IAN SINCLAIR – and we need to expose that
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At a time of national crisis, only a command economy can provide the co-ordinated, integrated response needed to defeat the virus, says HANK ROBERTS
JOHN PERRY examines the forces seeking to use the end of Xiomara Castro’s term to return Honduras to Washington’s camp, with this month’s elections at risk of interference
THE threat of further attacks upon Iran, following the bombings by Israel and the United States in June 2025, looms large in the thinking of the Iranian people. The leadership of the Islamic Republic is however corrupt, divided and in danger of paving the way for foreign intervention. Codir’s executive member Steve Bishop reports
From mass protests to plummeting poll numbers on immigration and health policy, and from devastating cuts to Medicaid and Medicare to the anti-science upheaval at federal health agencies, the president’s agenda is radicalising voters against him, argues JOHN LISTER
Whether in recycling or energy policy, a deeper crisis in long-term thinking is apparent in Scotland. With the new Budget looming, MATT KERR wonders if we can move beyond shallow, headline-grabbing measures
Ahead of elections next year, Scottish Labour is seeking to jump-start its political fortunes – but without bringing wealth and wealth production under democratic control, the party’s future looks in doubt, says VINCE MILLS
HAVING called the fight against the coronavirus a “war,” the government has patently failed to match its rhetoric.
It should have, and should now, establish a command economy.
For this there is no need to look back to World War II because we have the example of China.
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