Geopolitics
Month: June 2024
Fake News
Ali Abunimah – Israel has lost
10 June 2024 On June 10, 2024, Dimitri Lascaris spoke with Ali Abunimah, a Chicago-based, Palestinian-American journalist and co-founder of Electronic Intifada (EI). EI covers the Palestinian struggle from a Palestinian perspective. Abunimah and Lascaris […]
EU politics
Thomas Fazi – Europe’s insurgent Right won’t change anything
The right-wing populists do not have a common agenda on Europe’s most pressing issues, and when they get a sniff of power they tend to bend towards the EU establishment anyway. In ‘Unherd’. Read the […]
EU politics
George Newth – EU elections: how Italy’s far-right leader Giorgia Meloni framed her politics throughout the campaign
Why would the far-right ever want rid of the EU, when it is serving it so well politically? George Newth is Lecturer in Politics and member of the Reactionary Politics Research Network at the University […]
EU politics
Harrison Stetler – Marine Le Pen’s Party Has Power Within Its Grasp
‘After his allies scored just 15% in the European elections, last night Emmanuel Macron called a snap election for the French parliament. It’ll pave the way for a new government — and it could raise […]
EU politics
Julien Robin – Snap elections in France: What’s at stake?
Emmanuel Macron has turned a low-stakes European Parliament election into a high-stakes French parliamentary election. Julien Robin is a doctor in Political Science at the University of Montreal and a specialist on the French Parliament. […]
Geopolitics
Victor Grossman – Netanyahu and Germany
Is Germany’s anti-Palestinian authoritarianism something new, or the re-emergence of its dark past? Victor Grossman writes the Berlin Bulletin, which you can subscribe to for free by sending an email to: wechsler_grossman@yahoo.de. Cross-posted from Counterpunch For people […]
Media
Norman Solomon: The Absence — and Presence — of Daniel Ellsberg: A Year After His Death, He’s Still with Us
Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg died last year, but still has a lot to teach us about the future. Norman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His books include […]
Climate Crisis
Wolfgang Knorr – Warum die Wahl grüner Parteien das Klimaproblem nicht lösen kann
Grüne Autoren-Liberale werfen den Wählern vor, nicht “das Richtige” zu tun, ignorieren aber und weigern sich, auf das wachsende Misstrauen in politische Institutionen und den allgemeinen Verdacht einzugehen, dass eine solche Politik nur zu einer […]
Economics
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zach Carter
Book Review by Branko Milanović Zachary Carter’s biography of Keynes “The price of peace” is not a typical biography. It opens when Keynes was 31 years of age in the Summer of 1914 working on […]