Concerning 16 years of Orban as Prime Minister and today’s election Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Photo: Fair Use Hungary has a [...]
Amidst the US-Iran negotitions, Alastair Crooke says, Iran is not incentivized to end the war. Instead, it seeks to upend America’s hegemonic dominance of the region — and “break the paradigm.” The whole world is [...]
What will be the role of Asia in a new world order? Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His new book, The Visions of inequality, was published October 10, 2023. Cross-posed from Branko [...]
Failure, for Netanyahu, is never an endpoint. It is a trigger. With no victory to claim and no strategic gains to present, he turned—once again—to Lebanon. Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and the [...]
Are we facing a global religious war? Or is this an opportunity to reestablish the relationship between revolutionary politics and religion? Paweł Mościcki is a professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish [...]
Is the Chinese economic exceptionalism over? And if yes, will it simply join the average? Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His new book, The Visions of inequality, was published October 10, 2023. [...]
Two factors will now determine the fate of the ceasefire: what happens in Hormuz, and whether Israel continues pummelling Lebanon David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and [...]
“There will be a considerable rebalancing of strategic and political power in the world in the next few years” Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: FreePik Over the last couple of [...]
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 [...]