I retain the strong view that almost everyone is still greatly underestimating the power and control the US oligarchs have over our lives. Win or lose, it looks like they will destroy our standard of [...]
The retreat into satirical attacks on Trump and his supporters fuels the solidification of fascism. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he [...]
The failure to subdue Iran has halted, or shattered, a much larger ambition: a project to change the shape of the Middle East, with a reborn and rejuvenated ‘greater Israel’ at its head David Hearst [...]
“The destiny of Palestinians is the destiny of all humanity”: Kidnapped and tortured by the Zionists, Thiago Avila says Flotilla activists are undeterred in their support for Palestinian liberation. Since the Zionist siege of Gaza [...]
In the end it was the economic issue that brought about Trump’s capitulation, but one should not forget that in the meantime Iran’s military capabilities had surpassed those of the US and Israel. Larry C. [...]
Trump’s chokehold on oil, tariffs, and tech backfired – forging a new era of self-sufficient economies and generational confrontation Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted [...]
The West, including, Britain have abandoned the rule of law. Now anything is permitted. Ideology and might make right. Craig Murray is a British former diplomat, political activist, human rights campaigner, blogger, and whistleblower Cross-posted [...]
In what sense could it be useful to show that western society is suffering from something analogous to schizophrenia? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Last week’s essay on the importance of [...]
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 [...]
