EU politics
Francesca De Benedetti – Europe’s Left Needs a Wake-up Call
Left-wing parties in Europe, with few exceptions, remain completely marginal, while the far-right’s rise continues. In ‘Jacobin’. Read the article HERE.
Year: 2023
Geopolitics
Hilal Cibik – The Gaza Crisis Reveals the Need to Reform International Institutions
The United Nations obviously is not functional, but who is actually going to deliver the reforms to the UN that it desperately needs, when the Security Council holds a veto? In ‘Common Dreams’. Read the […]
Climate Crisis
Mathew D. Rose – COP28: It is time for climate scientists to come out of the cold
Since our political elites condoned Israel’s genocide in Gaza we know they do not value human lives – except their own – or our environment. Just profit. It is time to accept this truth. Mathew […]
Climate Crisis
Wolfgang Knorr: Overcoming authoritarian centrism – a vision for the climate movement
With COP28 starting and this time hosted in one of the most intensely carbon polluting countries, it is time to reflect on the where and what of the climate movement. Wolfgang Knorr is a climate […]
Geopolitics
Tarik Cyril Amar – Not All Empty Cribs Are the Same
Lies, damned lies, and Israeli propaganda. Tarik Cyril Amar (@TarikCyrilAmar) is a historian from Germany, currently at Koç University, Istanbul, expert on Ukraine, Russia, and Europe, and the author of “The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv. […]
Climate Crisis
La Via Campesina Boycotts COP28 in Solidarity with Palestine, Demanding Ceasefire Now! No Climate Justice without Human Rights!
La Via Campesina, founded in 1993, is an international movement bringing together millions of peasants, landless workers, indigenous people, pastoralists, fishers, migrant farmworkers, small and medium-size farmers, rural women and peasant youth from around the […]
EU politics
Nick Corbishley – Spanish Government threatens to break ranks with EU and unilaterally recognise Palestine. What gives?
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s words hardly match the scale or urgency of the situation, but in the context of the complicity across the EU in the Gaza genocide, at least it’s something. Nick Corbishley […]
EU politics
Armenia and the Tragedy of Great Power Politics: An Interview with Dr. Benyamin Poghosyan
An in-depth interview examining the Nagorno-Karabakh ethnic cleansing in the context of the geopolitics of the South Caucasus region. James W. Carden is a journalist and former advisor to the US State Department Cross-posted from […]
EU politics
L. Michael Hager – And still, Ukraine
Ukraine is currently out of the limelight but the death and destruction goes on, as long as Biden and Zelensky are unwilling to consider peace talks. L. Michael Hager is cofounder and former Director General […]
Geopolitics
Awad Abdelfattah – Israel-Palestine war: Genocide and the two-state illusion
Any talk of a two-state solution is absurd, as long as the US-backed Israeli regime is engaged in the process of exterminating Palestinians in Gaza Awad Abdelfattah is a political writer and the former general […]