A run-off between the far right and the far left candidates would be a choice between bad and ugly for France and Europe.

The big winner of the upcoming UK snap election will be three nationalisms – English, Scottish and Irish republican.

Reforms to make the World Bank less dependent on the United States would enable them to be more effective

China provides close to triple the average annual energy lending of the World Bank and all the Western-backed multi-lateral development banks combined.

U.S. participation in the IMF and World Bank was authorized in the Bretton Woods Agreement Act that became law in July 1945.