The US war on Iran is leading the world to a global depression. Professor Richard Wolff places the current crisis in the context of the capitalist system and the decline of US hegemonic power. The [...]
The genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in Lebanon exhausted the West’s moral legitimacy. Now Iran is slowly exhausting the West’s military primacy Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, [...]
Freedom is at times taken to be the ultimate goal of politics, but it is a corrosive idea that looks different from where you start. For a drug addict, the last thing you need is [...]
Throughout its long war on Iran, every tactic used by the United States has backfired. Professor Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi explains why Iran’s revolutionary spirit remains strong The United States, in its recent war on Iran, has [...]
By wilfully ignoring blatant US-Israeli acts of aggression, the EU is facilitating a global regime of impunity that contravenes its founding principles Marco Carnelos is a former Italian diplomat. He has been assigned to Somalia, [...]
A recently leaked “ecumenical framework concept” shows that even Germany’s churches are getting ready for war. Pascal Lottaz is a (Swiss) academic in Japan, Associate Professor at Kyoto University, working on neutrality in IR. He [...]
As in a Greek tragedy, the same features which neoliberal globalization extolled and that ensured its success for several decades led to its inevitable demise Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. [...]
The worst will never happen until it does. We live in a just-in-time society, whereas we used to live in a just-in-case one. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: National Archives [...]
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 [...]
