The protest against Jared Kushner’s property developments is part of a broader anti-corruption movement spreading across the Balkans. John P. Ruehl is an Australian-American journalist living in Washington, D.C. He is a contributing editor to [...]
Emmanuel Macron is playing silly games with France’s nuclear arsenal, presumably in an attempt to keep Russia guessing. But when you are dealing with nukes, uncertainty and unpredictability is the worst scenario possible. Pavel Devyatkin [...]
Andy Burnham became UK Prime Minister today. If he is serious about changing the Labour Party, Burnham will have to break with an Atlanticist foreign policy which he has always supported. Barry Malone is an [...]
A rising share of profits in Europe are going into finance rather than productive investment. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Why is [...]
The fall of popular Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who had overhauled Ukraine’s war strategy, shows Zelensky prioritises corruption over competence. Mark Episkopos is a Eurasia Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He [...]
In his new book, Roger Hallam of Extinction Rebellion provides tools for effective resistance to climate collapse under repressive systems We are living in an age of climate collapse, which will most likely result [...]
No water in Kuwait means no oil Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Distinguished University Professor in the History Department at the University of Michigan Cross-posted [...]
There are many Liberals, members of the Epstein Class, not to mention the Managerial and Professional Caste who claim that Neo-liberalism does not exist and cannot be defined. Richard Murphy shows how simple it is [...]
Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of [...]
