Op-Eds

‘The coroner’s report on G7’  China Global Television Network (CGTN), 15 June 2025

‘From promises to mayhem: U.S. administration at 100 days’ China Global Television Network (CGTN), 29 April 2025

‘Trump administration’s tariff tempest: Method or madness?’ China Global Television Network (CGTN), 06 April 2025

‘What will Carney bring to Canadians?’ China Global Television Network (CGTN) 10 March 2025

‘Trump’s empty tariff brinkmanship’ China Global Television Network (CGTN) 03 February 2025

‘Trudeau’s Fall’ New Left Review (NLR) 17 January 2025

‘Canadian and Western sanctions and their ‘democratic’ mess’ China Global Television Network (CGTN), 24 December 2024

‘Western persistent disappointment syndrome’ China Global Television Network (CGTN), 12 November 2024
‘Canada’s EV tariffs: Who benefits?’ China Global Television Network (CGTN), 3 October 2024

‘Soft Landing?’ New Left Review (NLR), 09 September 2024
‘Canada’s unjustifiable tariffs on EVs from China’ China Global Television Network (CGTN), 28 August 2024.
‘The unglamorous importance of Sullivan’s visit,’ China Global Television Network (CGTN), 27 August 2024
‘Jenseits des Zenits: Modi-Dämmerung. Die Parlamentswahlen brachten dem indischen Premier nicht das gewünschte Ergebnis. Nun muss er mit verringerter Macht regieren [Beyond the Zenith: Modi twilight. The general elections did not bring the Indian Prime Minister the desired result. Now he must rule with reduced power],’ Junge Welt, 31 July 2024
‘Starmer’s Labour: The UK Establishment’s Supernova,’ with Alan Freeman and Carlos Martinez, Morningstar Online, 10 July 2024
‘Volt Typhoon and the shambles of U.S. security,’ China Global Television Network (CGTN), 9 July 2024
‘U.S. weaponizes global health against China,’ China Global Television Network (CGTN), 28 May 2024
‘Towards 400 Paar? Significant Vulnerabilities, Surplus Strengths,’ with Natalie Braun, The Wire, 24 May 2024
‘How the BJP is failing the OBC test,’ The Hindu: Frontline, 13 May 2024
‘What the U.S. really means by overcapacity,’ China Global Television Network (CGTN), 9 April 2024
‘Hum Dekhenge: How Solid is Modi’s Electoral Ground?,’ with Zoya Hasan, The Wire, 24 April 2024

‘TikTok caught in the mad fray of U.S. politics,’ China Global Television Network (CGTN), 11 March 2024
‘U.S. paranoia about China can only result in self-harm,’ China Global Television Network (CGTN), 26 December 2023
‘The dangers NATO names and makes,’ China Global Television Network (CGTN), 28 November 2023

‘In the U.S.’s contradictory posture lies the world’s hope,’ China Global Television Network (CGTN), 14 November 2023

‘Incurable (?) US Schizophrenia About China,’ Counterpunch, 14 November 2023

‘Biden’s biggest lie,’ China Global Television Network (CGTN), 23 October 2023

‘U.S. waging unwinnable tech war’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 12 August 2023

‘Why the Ukraine Conflict will Unravel NATO and Biden’, Counterpunch, 18 July 2023

‘Vilnius will undo Biden’s strategy’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 11 July 2023

‘U.S. between a hard and a mixed-up place’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 3 June 2023

‘Unfounded allegations and geopolitical motivations: TikTok ban saga’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 21 May 2023

‘Is the debt ceiling the real issue for the US economy right now?’, RT, 23 May 2023

‘Debt ceiling melodrama rooted in U.S. neoliberalism’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 12 May 2023

‘The signs of de-dollarization are everywhere’, RT, 6 May 2023

‘Washington’s latest leak: Prelude to Ukraine disengagement?’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 13 April 2023

‘China’s voice of sanity will be heard’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 21 February 2023

‘The West’s Forged Schadenfreude’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 12 January 2023

‘The success of the Xi-Biden summit must be sustained’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 15 November 2022

‘Unpopularity contest: How midterm success brings US Democrats to a historic dilemma’, RT, 14 November 2022

‘What is really causing inflation? Neoliberal financialization decimated productive capacity’, Multipolarista, 7 November 2022

‘Why the US won’t step back from the warpath with China’, RT, 7 October 2022

‘Vectors of Inflation’, Sidecar (NLR), 6 October 2022

‘As Western capitalism faces repeated crises, socialist China achieves spectacular success’, Global Times, 27 September 2022

‘Of pots and kettles in cyberspace’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 8 September 2022

‘A lie, wrapped in hypocrisy, inside incompetence’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 29 August 2022

‘The vainglory of being Pelosi’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 7 August 2022

‘Guns Without Butter’, Sidecar (NLR), 5 May 2022

‘How the war in Ukraine is being fought in the media’, The Real News Network, 20 April 2022

‘The US war over Ukraine is a phase in the West’s hybrid war on Russia’, Multipolarista, 12 April 2022

‘The U.S. wants Ukraine conflict to fester’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 18 March 2022

‘Will the US win Europe?’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 2 March 2022

‘Jeremy Corbyn: ‘The left needs to work on a much more global basis’, The Real News Network, 24 February 2022

‘The US and Russia may bluff their way into a war neither is prepared for’. Interview with Boris Kagarlitsky and Oleg Barabanov, The Real News Network, 28 January 2022

‘Specters of Civil War and fascism’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 06 January, 2022

‘Aukus and The West’s dangerous war games with China’. Interview with Kate Hudson, The Real News Network, 5 January 2022

‘Of pandemics and priorities’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 30 December 2021

‘Weaponizing ramshackle liberal democracy’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 13 December 2021

‘A Dangerous Dialogue’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 26 November 2021

‘Democracies in Macpherson’s Mirror’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 06 November 2021

‘The heat is on: Will UN climate change conference finally result in serious action?’. Interview with Peter Victor, The Real News Network, 31 October 2021

‘The U.S. policy on DPRK is unraveling’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 26 October 2021

‘A war that could never be won’: An autopsy of the US war in Afghanistan’. Interview with Melkulangara Bhadrakumar, The Real News Network, 29 September 2021

‘Release of Meng ends a contemptible mess of illegality’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 26 September 2021

‘Can America ‘be back’ at the 76th UN General Assembly?’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 17 September 2021

‘US economic war on Cuba continues, even after war in Afghanistan ends’. Interview with Arnold August, The Real News Network, 1 September 2021

‘There are spies in your science, President Biden!’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 31 August 2021

‘Tragedy in Saigon, farce in Kabul, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 14 August 2021

‘Virus blame game infecting ‘Trumpiden’ presidency’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 03 August 2021

‘The West shouldn’t misreport President Xi’s speech on CPC’s centenary’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 06 July 2021

‘Neither Washington nor Beijing’. Interview with John Ross, The Real News Network, 30 June 2021

‘The Imperialism of human rights and the human rights of imperialism’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 29 June 2021

‘What was the point of Biden’s summit with Putin?’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 18 June 2021

‘NATO: Common budget without common purpose?’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 15 June 2021

‘Why U.S. liberal democratic governance is dysfunctional’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 07 June 2021

‘The inflation debate is about class’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 01 June 2021

‘The decay of U.S. democracy’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 20 May 2021

‘Breaking Bad: Botched Brexit could plunge Northern Ireland back into violent unrest’. Interview with Michael Burke, The Real News Network, 19 May 2021

‘Beyond Putin and Navalny: Is there a left alternative for Russia?’. Interview with Boris Kagarlitsky, The Real News Network, 30 April 2021

‘Biden leads again,’ but where to?’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 25 April 2021

‘Putin, Navalny, and the left: The coming political crisis in Russia’. Interview with Boris Kagarlitsky, The Real News Network, 16 April 2021

‘Kerry visit confirms undertow of U.S. aggression towards China’, China Global Television Network (CGTN), 16 April 2021

‘Yet Another Cold War, This Time Against China’, Valdai Discussion Club, 16 October 2020

‘The Fate of Capitalism Hangs in the Balance of International Power’, Canadian Dimension, 12 October 2020

‘The Myth of Progressive Canada’, Jacobin, 1 October 2020

‘Know your Enemy The Dangerous Futility of Pseudo-Philanthropic Neoliberalism’, Canadian Dimension, 18 June 2020

‘Political Hope in Search for an Agent’, Canadian Dimension, 20 May 2020

‘From Pandemic to Political Pandemonium’, Canadian Dimension, 14 May 2020

‘Political Hope Rises’, Canadian Dimension, 6 May 2020

‘Why Monetary Policy is No longer Enough’, Valdai Discussion Club, 4 May 2020

‘The Unexpected Reckoning: Coronavirus and Capitalism’, Canadian Dimension, 17 March, 2020

‘The US, Iran and the Danger of War’, Canadian Dimension, 4 February 2020

‘A New Brexit Settlement’, Counterpunch, 19 December 2019

‘Britain Faces a Long and Bumpy Road Ahead’, Valdai Discussion Club, 17 December 2019

‘Twitter Diplomacy or Twitter Electioneering’, Valdai Discussion Club, 16 September 2019

‘Common Dreams or Vulgar Delusions? Elite Preoccupations in Discourses about the “Commons”,’ Valdai Discussion Club, 29 May 2019

(Co-authored) ‘G7 Summit: Six against one’, Valdai Discussion Club. With William Wohlfarth. 18 June 2018

‘UK Elections: The Tories Last Gamble?’ Winnipeg Free Press’, 12 June 2017
‘Decoding Trump’. Counterpunch, 10 February 2017

‘Brexit Earthquake has many ruptures’, Winnipeg Free Press, 2 July 2016

‘Is there a new cold war?’, Defend Democracy Press, 4 April 2016

‘Don’t write off a Fifth NDP Government’, Winnipeg Free Press, 2 April 2016

‘The Chastisement of Western Hubris’, Valdai Discussion Club, 23 November 2015

Deficit Fact and Fiction: Put Deficits to Work; Invest In Social Programs, Winnipeg Free Press, 1 September 2015
Next Few Days Will Be Decisive for Greece, Winnipeg Free Press, 7 July 2015
Scots Tired of Austerity, Winnipeg Free Press, 9 May 2015
The New Development Bank: How the BRICS can realize its Promise, Lenta.ru, (In Russian) 20 November 2014
Their Man in New Delhi’, Le Monde Dipmolatique 11 August 2014
‘India’s Saffron Capitalism’ Counterpunch, 27 June 2014
‘What exactly has the WTO finally delivered’, Bricspost, December 10 2013
‘The BRICS are building a challenge to Western Economic Supremacy’, The Guardian, 2 April 2013
Brics without mortar?, The Bricspost, 23 March 2013
‘Has quantitative easing had its day?’, The Guardian, 11 January 2013
‘India’s New Right’ Frontline 29 December 2012 Volume 29, Issue 26
‘Goldman Sachs, Indian PM get growth drivers wrong’, The Brics Post, 24 October 2012
‘The West Must Wake Up to the Growing Power of the Brics’, The Guardian, 2 April 2012
‘New Growth Plan: Failing the Political Test’, (With Alan Freeman) Anandla! Issue 17-18, November-December 2010
‘On Sufficiency and Real World Economics: A Parley with Mel Watkins, Canadian Dimension Web Exclusive, September 2009.

‘Keynes and the Crisis: A Case of Mistaken Identity’, (With Alan Freeman) Canadian Dimension, July 2009
How Bad is US Unemployment?’ (With Alan Freeman) March 2009*

‘The Long Detour of Financialization’, December 2008
‘Neoliberalism self-destructs’, September 2008
‘After Gujarat II,’ The Hindu, 20 December 2002.
‘After Gujarat I,’ The Hindu, 19 December 2002.

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