Media
Max Blumenthal: British police detain journalist Kit Klarenberg, interrogate him about The Grayzone
Worrying persecution of alternative media by UK police forces. Read the article HERE.
Month: May 2023
EU politics
Geoffrey Roberts: Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was a war of choice, not necessity
It’s possible to oppose both Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the western proxy war on Russia Geoffrey Roberts is Emeritus Professor of History at University College Cork and a member of the Royal Irish Academy […]
National Politics
Cihan Tuğal: Erdoğan’s Resilience
Erdoğan was re-elected in the Turkish presidential run-off because of his opponent’s “limp and uninspiring programme”, which sought to return Turkey to a past that is gone. In New Left Review’s Sidecar. Read the article […]
Solutions
Linda Pentz Gunter: The Appalling Failure of the G7 to Act on Nuclear Disarmament
The G7 leaders’ “vision on nuclear disarmament” was breathtaking hypocrisy Linda Pentz Gunter is the editor and curator of BeyondNuclearInternational.org. Cross-posted from Counterpunch Seven super-hypocrites took a walk in a park recently and called it paying respects. […]
Economics
Michael Marshall: The dynamics of conflict and distance in financialised affordable housing
Speculation in low-income housing by an opaque investment community has produced new housing conflicts, but also new tactics among activists. Michael Marshall is a Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Urban Studies & Planning at […]
EU politics
German Foreign Policy: Central Body for Transatlantic Sanctions
Transatlantic Council plans coercive economic measures against China, following successful coordination of the Western sanctions against Russia. EU prepares Economic Security Strategy. Experts are promoting the creation of a “geo-economic NATO”. Read HERE
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck – The coming dollar weakness – or how to lie to yourself
What a lot is once again being written about the coming demise of the US dollar. The German Handelsblatt, for example, publishes an immense smorgasbord of arguments under the title “World currency on call: Why […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – Acemoglu, AI, and automation
The result of automation in the last 30 years has been rising inequality of incomes. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’s blog There is a […]
Economics
Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson, Mick Dunford – China builds global alternative as US-led financial order decays
Achieving by Undermining Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. […]
National Politics
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies – When Will US Join Global Call to End Ukraine War?
Must our leaders take us to the brink of World War III, with all our lives on the line in an all-out nuclear war, before they will permit a ceasefire and a negotiated peace? Medea […]