Economics
Chris Dillow – The end of modernity
This piece concerning the UK is applicable to the whole of Europe and is a must read Chris Dillow is an economics writer at Investors Chronicle. He blogs at Stumbling and Mumbling, and is the […]
Month: August 2024
Geopolitics
John Mearsheimer: Why I Am a Realist
Realism emphasizes that there is no higher authority in the international system that can come to your rescue if you are in serious trouble and that you cannot depend on other states to come to […]
Geopolitics
The Journal: ‘Everything I planted was dead’: How Israeli attacks are devastating farmers in the West Bank
While eyes around the world have been trained on the Gaza Strip since last October, violence against Palestinians at the hands of Israeli settlers and soldiers in the West Bank has intensified dramatically. Read HERE
Geopolitics
Economics
Michael Hudson – How Rome Reversed Christianity: from Compassion to Control
Christianity viewed from a financial perspective Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas […]
Fake News
Robert Hackett – Unearned Prestige: The Economist and The War In Ukraine
In the end, The Economist is just another propaganda medium of neo-liberalism and authoritarian liberalism Robert Hackett (Ph.D) writes about media, politics and environment in Powell River, British Columbia Cross-posted from Counterpunch “Pretend you are […]
Climate Crisis
Bill McGuire – Too hot to live
There’s a new kind of extreme weather scorching the plane Bill McGuire is Professor Emeritus of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at UCL, and a co-director of the New Weather Institute. His current book is Waking […]
EU politics
Bue Rübner Hansen – The New German Chauvinism – Part 2
How Germany’s Holocaust memorialization has had the opposite result it claimed to have sought This piece was written in April 2024, but somehow slipped past everyone here. You can read Part 1 HERE Bue Rübner […]
Economics
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era by Gary Gerstle
Book Review by Branko Milanović The very well-written and easy to read book by Gary Gerstle (The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order) makes two key points. First, and continuing from Gerstle’s previous book […]
Geopolitics