Climate Crisis
Steve Keen on economic ideology, capitalism and the future
10 October 2024
Month: October 2024
Economics
Tracking Marx’s Capital – Debates in Marxian Political Economy and Lessons for 21st Century Capitalism by Ahmet Tonak and Sungur Savran
Book Review by Michael Roberts In the Tracks of Marx’s Capital: Debates in Marxian Political Economy and Lessons for 21st Century Capitalism is an important new book by two well-known Marxist economists from Turkey. Ahmet […]
Geopolitics
Arundhati Roy’s PEN Pinter Prize Acceptance Speech – ‘No Propaganda on Earth Can Hide the Wound That Is Palestine
‘I refuse to play the condemnation game. Let me make myself clear. I do not tell oppressed people how to resist their oppression or who their allies should be.’ Arundhati Roy is an Indian author […]
National Politics
Branko Milanović – Russia’s apocalyptic messianism
Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest book is “Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World”. His new book, The Visions of […]
Geopolitics
Caitlin Johnstone – It’s So, So Bad, And It’s About To Get A Whole Lot Worse
The horrors that Israel, mainly with the support of the US and Germany, is carrying out – genocide in Gaza, ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, warcrimes against civilians in Lebanon, not to mention its […]
Geopolitics
The Electronic Intifada – Israel is committing the crime of extermination — UN inquiry
Israel is tightening its vise on civilians in both Gaza and in Lebanon, issuing new evacuation orders in both places on Saturday. “The conflict in Lebanon, coupled with intensified strikes in Syria and the raging […]
EU politics
German Foreign Policy: Germany has come a long way
As Berlin and Vilnius finalise an agreement on permanently stationing a German brigade in Lithuania, Germany underpins its claim to be the leading military power in the Baltic Read HERE
Economics
Michael Hudson, Richard D. Wolff, Nima Alkhorshid – Sovereignty in Crisis: Israel, Palestine, and America’s Global Agenda
Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a visiting professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, in New York. Wolff’s weekly […]
Geopolitics
Daniel Levy – “Burning the Off-Ramps”
Daniel Levy explains how unceasing US support for Israel has locked the region in an escalatory spiral Daniel Levy, president of the US/Middle East Project, the former director for the Middle East and North Africa […]
Geopolitics
Anatol Lieven – Blinken’s sad attempt to whitewash Biden’s record
By not acting with political and moral courage, this administration has actually failed abysmally on numerous counts Anatol Lieven is a Professor at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Qatar, visiting professor in the War […]