Geopolitics
Jim Lobe – Poll: Zelensky’s star fading among NATO countries
After two and a half years of war, a growing number wonder whether Ukraine’s leader is doing ‘the right thing’ Read HERE
Month: July 2024
Austerity
Peter Oborne – UK election 2024: Starmer won a majority but only secured a fraction of the popular vote
Labour has secured one of the largest parliamentary majorities in British political history, but with a pitifully low share of the vote Peter Oborne won best commentary/blogging in both 2022 and 2017, and was also […]
Austerity
Peter Ramsay, Philip Cunliffe – Rule of the Void
The UK’s general election result might seem like a restoration of the old pre-2016 political order. A bland technocrat has won a sweeping majority. However Labour’s massive victory is hollow and leaves the state in […]
National Politics
Katie Boyden – British General Election turnout was ‘lowest since 1945’
The voter turnout for the 2024 UK General Election could be the lowest since 1945 as Labour wins ‘by default’ rather than thanks to a huge swell of support, an expert has claimed. Read HERE
Economics
DeStatis – German Recession: New orders in manufacturing in May 2024: -8.6% year on year
New orders in manufacturing: May 2024 (in real terms, provisional): -1.6% on the previous month (seasonally and calendar adjusted) -8.6% on the same month a year earlier (calendar adjusted) April 2024 (in real terms, revised): […]
National Politics
Imran Mulla – UK election 2024: Millions head to the polls guided by anger over Gaza war
Labour is widely expected to win in a landslide, but the opposition party faces intense pressure in several constituencies over its response to the war Imran Mulla is a journalist at Middle East Eye Cross-posted […]
Geopolitics
George Beebe – The Coming Russian Escalation With the West
To judge from the editorial pages and Capitol Hill currents that both shape and reflect Washington’s perceptions of the world, the doomsayers sounding alarms over the risk of direct military conflict between the U.S. and […]
Geopolitics
John Mearsheimer, Stephen M. Walt, George Beebe, et al – At NATO’s Summit, the Alliance Should Not Move Ukraine Toward Membership
Ahead of next week’s summit, read the open letter signed by a broad spectrum of foreign policy experts advising NATO not to move Ukraine toward membership Cross-posted from Politico At last year’s NATO summit, the […]
National Politics
Chris Hedges – Craig Murray’s Campaign Against Empire
We wish Craig the best of luck tonight. Read why. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the […]
EU politics
Mathias Bernard – Legislative elections in France: ‘Emmanuel Macron has made National Rally the main force of opposition to his policies’
Macron’s woeful centrist governance has been instrumental to the rise of the far-right. Mathias Bernard is a historian of the Fifth Republic at the Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA). Cross-posted from The Conversation How do you […]