The assault on American democracy and its global standing originated not in Moscow but in Washington, and across the length and breadth of the United States. Like the Soviet Empire before it, America is crumbling under the weight of its own contradictions.
Tag: economic inequality
Egypt’s economic paradox: Income equality v wealth inequality
Despite having one of the world’s highest levels of income equality, Egypt’s wealth gap is growing to become one of the widest. What is behind this paradox?
A utopian refuge for refugees?
Can an Egyptian billionaires vision of turning a Mediterranean island into a just republic for refugees help solve the refugee crisis?
The death throes of Arab thuggery
Arab civilisation has not collapsed but the thuggish political, economic and religious mafias dominating the region are dying violently.
From the Chronikles: My plan for a democratic Egypt
With the right president, Egypt could rid itself of nepotism and inequality to become a prosperous and egalitarian society.
Secular Egypt: dream or delusion?
Is Egypt on the road to theocracy or will it manage to build a secular, pluralist democracy?
Zero tolerance=zero difference
Belgian media hysteria over crime and calls for zero-tolerance policing miss the real issue – social exclusion in the inner city.
Making globalisation pay
Big corporations are using the banking crisis as an excuse for exploiting cheap labour. Is it time for a global minimum wage?
Introducing equanomics
Governments need to rethink their economy policies to make them more equitable and responsive to citizens’ needs.