The international community should also adopt protective measures, including the freezing of assets and a travel ban for high ranking officials of the Ugandan oligarchy.

Most Member States will have no choice but to sit on the sidelines while an oligarchy of 11 wields a monopoly of power over international peace and security.

These ideas were tailored to the views of the financial oligarchy. But the tools of economics, as currently taught, provide little scope for investigating the links between economists ideas and the structures of power.

The new Ukraine is resolutely pro European, and ready to defend Europe by defending itself. But its enemies not only Putin s Russia, but also its own bureaucracy and financial oligarchy are formidable, and it cannot defeat them alone.

The government is fighting at least two wars simultaneously taking on a deeply entrenched oligarchy, while trying to fend off its hostile eastern neighbor. Further trouble in the form a steeply declining economy is something it cannot afford.

Nevertheless, the doomsday scenarios predicting anarchy and chaos in the post Saleh era are most likely exaggerated. Unlike in Egypt, the vacuum resulting from Saleh s departure can be quickly filled, so the country need not fall back on a military oligarchy.

Indeed, such is China s political system that only the strongest advance. One fallen princeling, Bo, has been accused of cruelty and corruption traits that are endemic in China s cloistered but fragmented oligarchy, which values family lineage and relies on networks of allies.

Moreover, how to restructure the financial system remains unclear. The Glass Steagall Act s separation of investment from commercial banking greatly benefited the established oligarchy of investment banks, but somehow the entry of competitors from commercial banks and insurers increased financial companies profits further.

In Guatemala, the central government controlled by a oligarchy of European decent was waging a scorched Earth campaign against an indigenous rebellion, and I saw an image that reflected the history of Latin America conquest through a combination of the Bible and the sword.

Who are you going to believe, Groucho once asked, me, or your own eyes? For hundreds of millions of citizens in Communist run countries in the twentieth century, the me in the question was a dictator or oligarchy ruling with totalitarian or authoritarian powers.

Unlike in Egypt, the vacuum resulting from Saleh s departure can be quickly filled, so the country need not fall back on a military oligarchy. The Yemeni opposition is not only organized, but also plays an active role in politics and has true grassroots support.

The profits of the investment banking oligarchy (the handful of global investment banks, including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JP Morgan Chase, among others) were far in excess of what any competitive market ought to deliver, owing to these banks deep pockets and ability to maneuver through thickets of regulations.

An elected president has a stronger mandate to be controversial, especially in areas of thought and culture that lie beyond the domain of quotidian politics but shape the quality of the public space in which politics plays out. It would be inconceivable for a reigning monarch to attack the financial oligarchy, as Higgins did in his speech in Chicago.

Maduro s government blames its economic collapse on an economic war led by the US, the oligarchy, and international financial Zionism, of which I am supposedly an agent. The problem is that the government has paid almost no cost for its systematic lies, even when these involve scapegoating poor Colombians for Venezuela s shortages, and illegally expelling hundreds of them, and destroying their homes.