This post reviews some recent economics books published by various authors, both Marxist and non-Marxist. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Robert’s Blog Photo is made [...]
Capitalist democracies face an inescapable trade-off between three objectives: sustaining economic growth, maintaining democratic legitimacy, and delivering serious climate action. They can pursue two. They cannot pursue all three. Aidan Regan is a professor of [...]
What the Germans cannot comprehend is why the world is questioning their virtuousness Mathew D. Rose is an Investigative Journalist specialised in Organised Political Crime in Germany and an editor of BRAVE NEW EUROPE Photo: [...]
On the country’s Independence Day, the nostalgia of liberal Israelis for a better, earlier state is a comforting illusion. The Nakba and the occupation were there from the beginning Gideon Levy is a Haaretz columnist [...]
Despite rampant human rights violations, European elites refuse to break pact giving Israelis access to business and over a billion euros through 2027 Eldar Mamedov is a Brussels-based foreign policy expert and Non-resident Fellow at [...]
Trump’s tariff war will be seen in retrospect to be peanuts to the threatened strike on China’s supply lines. Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted [...]
There will not be a negotiated settlement to the Iran war. It will have to be fought out to a conclusion, whatever that might be. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: [...]
Without understanding the astonishing network of power exercised by the United Arab Emirates you would have no idea why the UAE was hit particularly hard by Iran in recent weeks. Nor would you know what [...]
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 [...]
