The failure of the US military despite trillions of dollars to defeat Iran Medea Benjamin is co-founder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK: Women for Peace Nicolas J. S. Davies is an independent journalist and a [...]
The influence of fear on the behaviour of states. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: Office of the President of Ukraine I’ve been wondering whether there’s anything useful to say at [...]
A closer look at the work of the Adam Smith Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Last week, the 19th Congress of the World Association [...]
Our unwillingness to think about how to change our reality may simply be the noise of capitalism speaking through us. It’s time to find value in something more than a new iPhone or pair of [...]
Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza is a mirage, a conjuring trick in which peace is unilaterally declared as Israel seizes more Palestinian land and brings the genocide to its grim conclusion. Chris Hedges is [...]
Why are the rich not consuming? Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World, was published November 2025. Cross-posed [...]
John Bellamy Foster reflects on the enduring relevance of Einstein’s “Why Socialism?” in this fourth segment of our series on ecology and materialism. Marx’s foundations of ecological materialism are blended with the work of natural [...]
Every country in the world, especially the United States, must now take Iran and what it want’s seriously. Vijay Prashad is the Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. His most recent book (with Grieve [...]
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 [...]
