How Western capitalists use China-bashing to deflect attention from their soaring profits Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book The Visions of inequality, was published October 10, 2023. Cross-posed [...]
For decades, the EU has devised ever more convoluted ways to avoid penalising Israel’s illegal settlements, even as they devour a two-state solution it claims is the only path to regional peace Jonathan Cook is [...]
Only a popular uprising against globalist leaders in Europe and their proxy in Ukraine, will do A Sustainable Peace in Ukraine: Diplomacy, Neutrality, and the Limits of the Current Order Ian Proud was a member [...]
What is really occurring concerning the Chinese Economy Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Photo: Wikimedia Commons China’s second quarter GDP growth [...]
A market downturn in the U.S. – exacerbated by an energy crisis – could spell disaster for Trump’s midterm hopes Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum [...]
Declining societies begin by killing the old. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” The West: From “True Grit” to “True Shit” I haven’t decided yet whether to go to see Christopher Nolan’s [...]
The current stand of the Iran War, which has recommenced Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. [...]
The author of ‘Empire of AI’, a book about OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, discusses technology, power and sovereignty. Alessio Giussani is the editor-in-chief of the Green European Journal. He was formerly contributing editor of Eurozine (Vienna) [...]
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 [...]