By pulling out of OPEC, the UAE is doubling down on its confrontation with Saudi Arabia, and locking-in Israel as its security guarantor. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is [...]
The left shoots itself in the foot when it refuses to engage with those taking action over the rising cost of living, just because some of the protestors do not share the left’s worldview. Kerron [...]
The US is not going to win the Iran war, that much is clear. Their best hope now is to find an agreement with Iran which is not a complete humiliation for the Trump administration. [...]
The European public and governments are massively out-of-sync over the question of the continent’s relationship with Israel, a chasm that can’t be sustained forever. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of the Palestine [...]
Quality of housing is closely linked to health outcomes, and for Britons who rent in the private sector, the quality of housing is shoddy. Emma Baker is Professor of Housing Research at the Australian Centre [...]
It’s not always about the youth. Older activists are sometimes the most daring and care-free. Simon Feisthauer Fournet is a freelance journalist based in France. A graduate of Columbia Journalism School, he has reported for [...]
What is happening now is not limited to the United States possibly experiencing its third defeat. It might be the collapse of a huge empire itself. Emmanuel Todd is a French historian, anthropologist, demographer, sociologist [...]
The real issue now for the world economy is the inevitable global shortages of essential commodities, not just oil, but oil products like air fuel and a whole range of raw materials needed to sustain [...]
Book Review by Branko Milanović Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian’s The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform is a book about how China transformed itself between the Great Leap Forward and the early [...]
