Finance
German Foreign Policy: German or not at all
Berlin wants to stop Italian bank UniCredit from taking a major stake in Germany’s Commerzbank. Double standards? Read HERE Image: Commerzbank 1959
Month: October 2024
Geopolitics
Trita Parsi – Iran bombs Israel, but buck stops with Biden
If Israel’s response sucks us into war, it will be on the administration’s hands Trita Parsi is the co-founder and Executive Vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Cross-posted from Responsible Statecraft Today, […]
Geopolitics
The Cradle: Iran hits multiple Israeli bases in massive missile barrage
Iran launched hundreds of ballistic missiles at Israel late on 1 October in a massive retaliatory attack that officials in Tehran say achieved direct hits on multiple military bases across the country. “We targeted three […]
Fake News
Maksim Markelov – The Kremlin’s ‘troll factory’: classic propaganda techniques re-imagined for the social media age
Yevgeny Prigozhin founded the notorious Russian “troll factory”, the Internet Research Agency in 2013. Since then, agency trolls have flooded social media platforms with conspiracy theories and anti-western messages. Maksim Markelov is a PhD Candidate, Russian […]
Geopolitics
Middle East Eye – Iran launches wave of missiles at Israel
‘Iran says attack is in retaliation for Israel’s killing of Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.’ Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Politico – US officials quietly backed Israel’s military push against Hezbollah
‘Senior White House figures privately told Israel that the U.S. would support its decision to ramp up military pressure against Hezbollah — even as the Biden administration publicly urged the Israeli government in recent weeks […]
Geopolitics
Binoy Kampmark – The Illusion of a Solution: Killing Hassan Nasrallah
You can kill the man but not the idea. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne. Email: bkampmark@gmail.com Cross-posted from Counterpunch The ongoing Israeli operation against Hezbollah, the […]
Solutions
Norman Solomon – “Escalation Dominance” . . . and the Prospect of More Than 1,000 Holocausts
This article is adapted from the keynote speech that Norman Solomon gave at the annual conference of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation in Washington, DC on Sept. 24, 2024. Norman Solomon is the […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – PRC 75 today
Short summary of Michael Roberts’ writings about China on the 75th anniversary of the People’s Republic. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Today is […]