A Scene Setter for an Energy Intelligence Colloquium Ambassador Freeman chairs Projects International, Inc. He is a retired U.S. defense official, diplomat, and interpreter Cross-posted from Chas Freeman’s website Peace is more than the absence [...]
Expansionist Israel will not stop dragging the US to war in the Middle East Jeffrey D. Sachs is a University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed [...]
Ali Abunimah Returns to Zurich to Give the Talk That Got Him Arrested Esad Širbegović is a writer and analyst based in Zurich, Switzerland. He is also a member of the International Expert Team at [...]
Trump’s Iran deal shatters Israel’s 40-year dream of regime change. Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Stategic Culture Foundation The Iran-U.S. de-escalation framework [...]
Israel is turning on its last important ally in an act of suicidal hubris. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served [...]
History is terrifyingly contingent, and what seems obvious now was not always obvious then: nor, indeed, was it inevitable Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Joseph Ducreux: Self-portrait, called the Surprise Photo [...]
The workers who are moderating the content on social media are working in conditions of extreme labour exploitation. Based on detailed survey evidence with content moderators in Nairobi, Kenya, this report reveals some of the [...]
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 [...]
