The war on information in the West has tread new grounds since the genocide in Palestine. Journalists and media outlets who report on the imperialist endeavors of the ruling class increasingly find themselves under the [...]
Fiscal consolidation packages reduce approval, drive protests and raise the odds of a major government crisis – especially in downturns Philipp Heimberger is an economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW) Anna [...]
History remembers those who committed atrocities. It also remembers those who looked away. Vijay Prashad is the Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. His most recent book (with Grieve Chelwa) is How the International [...]
Britain’s ruling class and PMC keep plumbing new depths Internal emails reveal changes resulted directly from complaints by pro-Israel activists, with the museum and its director subsequently misleading prominent critics Namir Shabibi is an independent [...]
The innumerable assasinations, putsches, and proxy wars by the West are never mentioned with regard to post-War World II colonialism in Africa and Western Asia. Still, there are some useful takeaways in this piece. Cross-posted [...]
The current economic model is exhausted – it’s time to focus on production, skilled work, and industrial investment, Costas Lapavitsas is a Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of [...]
Hannah Arendt warned in 1948 that a Jewish state built without Jewish-Arab agreement would live by permanent war, fear and exclusion – a warning that now reads less like idealism than realism Robert Manne is [...]
Here are reviews of a few books that I could not ignore analysing this summer. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Let’s start [...]
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 [...]
