As we witness the decline of Western global hegemony, there is a rapid increase in blatant propaganda in Western state and corporate media. Furthermore the escalating repression against “Resistance Media” and its journalists in the [...]
Norman Finkelstein, in his final book, comprehensively exposes the deceit, politicking, and careerism that enabled the Gaza genocide at the United Nations. The greatest injustices in the world are often masked in volumes of complex [...]
European Commission proposing 81% increase in annual contributions to EU budget by member states for next year Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the [...]
A fundamental danger with paradigms: they do not necessarily have to conform to reality, so long as they are sufficiently widely accepted. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” When you get involved [...]
The opposition parties in the West are no better than the parties already in government Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he [...]
Foreign policy starts and ends at home Ian Proud was a member of His Britannic Majesty’s Diplomatic Service from 1999 to 2023. He served as the Economic Counsellor at the British Embassy in Moscow from [...]
Don’t stop talking about democracy in the EU Veronica Stoehrel is a media and communication scholar and a now-retired professor from Halmstad University, Sweden It is not easy to believe in representative democracy today. When [...]
The same racist, Zionist logic that justified the Gaza genocide is now making it impossible for the Jewish opposition to reach a deal with Palestinian parties to oust Netanyahu Jonathan Cook is the author of [...]
What seriously weakened Nordhaus’ contributions was his commitment to the unrealistic assumptions of neoclassical theory Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Prominent mainstream [...]
Book Review by Branko Milanović As some people who follow my Substack might have been noticed I have been reading this Summer several books about the current Ukraine-Russia war. I find it very instructive and useful [...]
