Geopolitics
Glenn Diesen – Russophobia, think tanks, and the Eurasian future
Glen Diesen is an expert on Russia and Ukraine. Here his take on a number of related topics.
Month: February 2024
Geopolitics
Jeffrey Sachs – Biden Will LOSE 2024 Because of Israel Policy
Economist, public policy analyst, and Columbia professor Jeffery Sachs returns to Bad Faith to weigh in on the prospect of a ceasefire, Biden’s choice to increasingly distance himself rhetorically from Netanyahu, and the shocking settlers […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck, Patrick Kaczmarczyk: Argentina and Turkey: Two very different countries, the same problem
In this article, we want to ask the simple question of how Argentina’s central problem, extremely high inflation, is to be tackled by the “markets”. Thereby, we use the contrasting example of Turkey, which is […]
Geopolitics
Peter Oborne – David Cameron has fallen for Israel’s dodgy dossier on Unrwa
Everything written here is just as true for all of the other western governments which acted on Israel’s allegations about Unrwa without verifying them. Peter Oborne is a British journalist. His latest book is The […]
Climate Crisis
Clara Bourgin – Why green activists joined farmers protests for fairer EU farming policies
Farmers don’t need back-sliding on climate goals, they need policies which rein in corporate power. Clara Bourgin is the food, agriculture, and nature campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe. Cross-posted from Common Dreams (first […]
Climate Crisis
Bill McKibben – Our Financial System Is a Suicide Machine
Some of the world’s biggest banks are now back-tracking on prior climate commitments – climate action isn’t just not moving forwards, it’s going backwards. Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and […]
Geopolitics
John Rees – War on Gaza: A strategic blunder to hasten US decline
A prescient assessment of the state of US imperial power in the world. John Rees is a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a co-founder of the Stop the War Coalition. Cross-posted […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – Pakistan’s misery continues
Pakistan’s economy is in ruins, the state run by a corrupt incompetent military Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Pakistan has a general election […]
Economics
Destatis – German Recession: Industrial production in longest-ever downturn
Production in industryDecember 2023 (in real terms, provisional):-1.6% on the previous month (seasonally and calendar adjusted)-3.0% on the same month a year earlier (calendar adjusted) Read HERE
Geopolitics
Fabian Scheidler – Gaza, the German Far-Right and the Hypocrisy of the Ruling Class
No parliamentary group in the German Bundestag is raising its voice against the devastation of the Gaza Strip and the continuation of mass killings Fabian Scheidler is a writer based in Berlin and author of […]