8 February 2026 GLENN DIESEN: Welcome back. We are joined today by Professor Michael Hudson to discuss the direction of civilization. So thank you very much for coming back on. MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, thanks for [...]
The US economy is still “one big bet on AI” Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog By Ziko – Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=148559294 [...]
A US war with Iran may not be a repeat of Venezuela. 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 [...]
Norway and the international humanitarian industrial complex Glenn Diesen is professor at the Department of Business, History and Social Sciences, University of South-Eastern Norway Cross-posted from Glenn’s Substack Norwegian Crown Princess Mette Marit hanging out [...]
Killings, arrests, displacement and aid restrictions have continued under the ceasefire. The violence has not ended – it has been reorganised and made less visible. Refaat Ibrahim is a Palestinian writer from Gaza and the [...]
A rising economy is no longer a guarantee that standards of living will also rise Robin McAlpine is Head of Strategic Development at the Common Weal think-tank in Scotland. Cross-posted from Common Weal Can you [...]
What is currently occurring in the UK is happening in most Western nations. Here a good analysis of what has gone wrong and what now needs to be done. Richard Murphy is an economic justice [...]
The cost of affordable housing in New York City J. W. Mason is Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York and a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute Cross-posted from [...]
Book Review by Hossam el-Hamalawy Avi Shlaim’s Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine is a book written in the midst of catastrophe, not after its dust has settled. It is a work shaped [...]