National Politics
George Galloway returns to office to challenge pro-war elites
For those of you outside of Britain that you understand what happened in this very remarkable election
Month: March 2024
EU politics
Politico: EU leaders ink €7.4B economic aid, migration deal with Egypt
Major package comes as EU officials tout new focus on curbing migration ahead of European Parliament election. Read HERE
EU politics
Tarik Cyril Amar – From a Big Lie to the Biggest War?
Loose talk about Western boots on the ground in Ukraine is a sign of panic and insanely risky, too. Tarik Cyril Amar (@TarikCyrilAmar) is a historian from Germany, currently at Koç University, Istanbul, expert on […]
EU politics
Jeffrey Sachs – Europe’s weak and dishonest leadership and the lack of a coherent strategy
14 March 2024 The eurozone and challenges for Europe in general. Sachs in particular laments Europe’s weak and dishonest leadership and the lack of a coherent strategy. He also criticizes the obnoxious foreign policy of […]
Geopolitics
Jonathan Cook – Torture, executions, babies left to die, sexual abuse… These are Israel’s crimes
Why is the same western media obsessively reheating five-month-old allegations against Hamas so reluctant to focus on Israel’s current, horrifying atrocities? Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a […]
Climate Crisis
Steven Gonzalez Monserrate: The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage. Read HERE
EU politics
Michael von der Schulenburg, Hans-Joachim Funke – Mit ihrer Rolle im Ukrainekrieg könnte die Europäische Union ihre eigene politische Zukunft riskieren
Während sich die USA aus dem Ukraine-Krieg zurückziehen, hat die EU die Chance, neue Friedensbemühungen anzuführen – aber ihre führenden Politiker scheinen nur daran interessiert zu sein, einen Krieg zu vertiefen, den die Ukraine nicht […]
Economics
Gustavo Piga – Saving the EU: how much to spend and how to finance it
The European Union is egregiously underperforming economically, but is boldly trying to make things worse Gustavo Piga is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata You will find the original version […]
EU politics
Hans Kundnani – Zionism Über Alles
The German political establishment has abandoned the belief that the Holocaust gave it a responsibility to humanity and replaced it with a responsibility to Israel alone. Read HERE
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Keynes was wrong because he failed to consider class conflict
We will never reach the nirvana that Keynes envisaged because the structure of capital ownership will never permit it. Governments can tinker around the edges but ultimately they have demonstrated a lack of resolve to […]