The short answer is ‘no’ Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Strategic Culture online journal The short answer is ‘no’. Trump was confabulating [...]
Although written about the USA, the same applies to Europe In addition to reducing our security and jeopardizing the well-being of people around the world, his belligerence will cost us a huge amount of money. [...]
The war on Iran emphasises the need for something better than populism as a response to the failure of the old order Peter Ramsay is Professor of Law at the London School of Economics. He is [...]
Netanyahu pitched the war as a repeat of Israel’s apparent ‘audacious feat’ of smashing Hezbollah. The US president should have noted instead Israel’s moral and strategic defeat in Gaza. Trump’s speech tonight, Wednesday 1 April, [...]
An empire that is held together by lies, corruption and endless slaughter was never going to remain unseen. Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-supported independent journalist from Melbourne, Australia. Her political writings can be found on Medium. [...]
As the entire international economic, political and military balance is upended, and governments are going to find themselves in a frightening new world, unlike anything they have ever known, and where neither Powerpoint nor mythical [...]
It’s difficult to overestimate the extent to which this war is re-making the world order. Michael Hudson’s Killing the Host, The Collapse of Antiquity and The Destiny of Civilization are published by CounterPunch Books. Ben Norton is editor of the [...]
A very important film about Palestinian history has just come out. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle [...]
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 [...]
