By Stabroek News – June 27, 2022
By Joseph E. Stiglitz
NEW YORK – The United States appears to have entered a new cold war with both China and Russia. And US leaders’ portrayal of the confrontation as one between democracy and authoritarianism fails the smell test, especially at a time when the same leaders are actively courting a systematic human-rights abuser like Saudi Arabia. Such hypocrisy suggests that it is at least partly global hegemony, not values, that is really at stake.
For two decades after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the US was clearly number one. But then came disastrously misguided wars in the Middle East, the 2008 financial crash, rising inequality, the opioid epidemic, and other crises that seemed to cast doubt on the superiority of America’s economic model. Moreover, between Donald Trump’s election, the attempted coup at the US Capitol, numerous mass shootings, a Republican Party bent on voter suppression, and the rise of conspiracy cults like QAnon, there is more than enough evidence to suggest that some aspects of American political and social life have become deeply pathological. Continue reading →
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Guyanese Online Website – 13th Year – now Eight Million Views
Kaieteur Falls. Guyana. South America.
Guyanese Online celebrated its 12th Anniversary in February 2022.
Guyanese Online was not established as a business website. Its main goal was to offer FREE advertising to Guyanese Associations worldwide, and to communicate with the Guyana Diaspora.
This goal has been achieved over the last 12 years, but the COVID pandemic has affected all organizations and we hope that they will recover quickly as life is normalized. The blog also features:
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