Geopolitics
Month: October 2024
Geopolitics
Chris Bambery – The Wildfire of Imperialism
On the United States and the importance of military, economic and financial power in assessing geopolitical primacy. In ‘Counterfire’. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Anton Jäger – National Lockstep?
On Belgium’s shift to the right. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
DeGrowth
Chris Hedges: Burn the Planet and Lock Up the Dissidents
Climate activists are being locked behind bars while our rulers burn down the world, exemplified by the fossil-fuelled annihilation of Gaza. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years […]
Geopolitics
Jamal Kanj – Netanyahu’s Intoxicated Euphoria will Turn into a Prolonged Hangover
Iran showed that it’s missiles can penetrate Israel and, if it wanted to, destroy key infrastructure. Jamal Kanj is the author of Children of Catastrophe: Journey from a Palestinian Refugee Camp to America, and other books. […]
Climate Crisis
Enzo Rossi – Growing Pains: Climate Change and the Socialist Transformation
The debate between those who advocate degrowth and those who advocate eco-modernism on the international left has often been unnecessarily polemical, and both sides have failed to offer a compelling vision to the public. Enzo […]
Fake News
The Electronic Intifada: Asa Winstanley – How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on 7 October
It is astonishing how many people do not know about this – but then considering the total absence of this narrative from today’s blanket legacy media coverage Asa Winstanley is an investigative journalist and associate […]
Economics
DeStatis – German Recession: Automotive industry records 4.7% decline in sales in the first half of 2024
Sorry, this was only in German, but we have translated parts: Nominal sales fall from record level in the 1st half of 2023 to €269.5 billion Exports of new cars in the 1st half of […]
Economics
DeStatis – German Recession: New orders in manufacturing in August 2024: -5.8% on the previous month
New orders in manufacturing: August 2024 (in real terms, revised): -5.8% on the previous month (seasonally and calendar adjusted) -3.9% on the same month a year earlier (calendar adjusted) July 2024 (in real terms, revised): […]
Geopolitics