Geopolitics
Bloomberg: Ditch the ‘Rules-Based International Order’
The phrase is a linguistic atrocity, while the concept draws attention to American hypocrisy, in the Middle East and beyond. There’s an alternative. Read HERE
Month: February 2024
Geopolitics
Jeffrey D. Sachs – The Biden-Schumer Plan to Kill More Ukrainians
The $61 billion will make no difference on the battlefield except to prolong the war, the tens of thousands of deaths, and the physical destruction of Ukraine Jeffrey D. Sachs is a professor at Columbia […]
Geopolitics
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies – Instead of Diplomacy and Peace, US Chooses to Back Genocide and War
The horror Americans feel at the plight of people in Gaza and the U.S. role in it is a shocking new low in this disconnect between the humanity of ordinary Americans and the insatiable ambitions […]
EU politics
Conor Gallagher – German Establishment Prepares to Cross the Rubicon
Berlin continues to double down on Ukraine, earmarking nearly more than $8 billion for the war in its just-passed budget. While the domestic situation implodes, and the government and media smear anyone – political parties, […]
Geopolitics
Scheerpost: US Blocks Yemen-Saudi Peace Deal
New sanctions on the Houthis will make it impossible for the first phase of the Saudi-Houthi peace deal to be implemented. Read HERE Saudi Arabia Armed Forces. Qrmoo3, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Economics
Branko Milanović – James Burnham’s managerialism eighty years later
Just as time can prove that something is wrong, is can later prove it to be right. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest book is “Capitalism, Alone: The Future […]
Geopolitics
James W. Carden – Letter from ThinkTankLand
Think Tanks are coming increasingly into disrepute. James W. Carden is a former adviser on Russia to the Special Representative for Global Intergovernmental Affairs at the State Department. He is a member of the board […]
Climate Crisis
Wolfgang Knorr – The Coming Sunsetting of the Climate Issue
What I sense is that the period of blossoming climate emergency declarations and well-meaning intentions for net zero by 2050 spreading like a wildfire, may now be coming to an end. Wolfgang Knorr is a […]
EU politics
Detlef Bimboes, Jochen Scholz: Key points for a sovereign Europe – in favour of the strategic autonomy of the EU
The EU has reached a dead end in its geopolitical policy having decided for subservience to US interests. Here an alternative. Detlef Bimboes and Jochen Scholz are members of the Peace and Security Policy Discussion […]
Geopolitics
John Mearsheimer: Why Ukraine needs to break ties with the West
Listen HERE In May 2022, just a few months into the war between Russia and Ukraine, we convened a public debate in Toronto about whether the West needed to acknowledge Russia’s legitimate legitimate security interests […]