The EU is being hijacked by the neo-liberal project and must be stopped. That however does no mean that it cannot play an important role in Europe. Wolfgang Streeck is Senior Research Associate at the [...]
Israel doesn’t know it yet, but it is well on its way to becoming a pariah state. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and speaker on the [...]
There is a ‘new mood’ in the global south, where it is increasingly clearly that US hegemony cannot be relied on and a new paradigm is necessary for humanity. Chu Guofei, Social Sciences in China [...]
US corporations are raking in big profits, but the future does not look so rosy for American capitalism. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog [...]
I spent the last week at the UN, trying to ram home some truths about the Assange case as input to the UN’s Periodic Review (every 7 years) of the UK’s human rights record, in [...]
Loose talk about Western boots on the ground in Ukraine is a sign of panic and insanely risky, too. Tarik Cyril Amar (@TarikCyrilAmar) is a historian from Germany, currently at Koç University, Istanbul, expert on [...]
Why is the same western media obsessively reheating five-month-old allegations against Hamas so reluctant to focus on Israel’s current, horrifying atrocities? Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a [...]
The European Union is egregiously underperforming economically, but is boldly trying to make things worse Gustavo Piga is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata You will find the original version [...]
Book Review by Branko Milanović Vladislav M. Zubok’s splendid “Collapse” is a chronicle of the break-up of the Soviet Union. It opens with the appointment of Yuri Andropov in 1985 and ends at Christmas 1991 [...]