The Nordic-Baltic warmongering under the current conditions is therefore (i) irresponsible, (ii) hypocritical, (iii) immoral, and (iv) flirts with a disaster of immense proportions. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His [...]
In Robin Andersen’s new book, she chronicles how the U.S. media utilized their massive reach to help shield Israel from scrutiny as it perpetrated a genocide in Gaza. Chris Hedges: Robin Anderson, the author of [...]
Bankrupting the Wrong Economy Nima Alkhorshid: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, August 13, 2026, and our dear friends, Richard Wolf and Michael Hudson, are here with us. Welcome back. Let me start with just briefing [...]
How feasible is Trump’s strategy? Is Iran in as desperate straits as Treasury Secretary Bessent suggests? Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Stategic [...]
Western media, by employing double standards, censorship, deceptive language, amplifying Israeli lies and dehumanizing Palestinians, facilitates the genocide in Gaza. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years [...]
How does weaponry effect a war? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=139499 I’ve written a fair amount over the last few years about the implications of the use of [...]
A former Guantanamo detainee finds that many of those who were his inmates are now in power in Kabul and Damascus, picking-up the pieces of what the US empire left behind. Moazzam Begg is a [...]
Predictions of an oil price apocalypse from the closing of the Strait of Hormuz have not yet materialised, but the long run consequences are still set to be steep. Sam Fraser is a writer based [...]
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 [...]
