Geopolitics
Matthew Blackburn: Long-Range Strikes Won’t Deter Putin
Biden’s decision creates another dangerous juncture that is unlikely to help Ukraine in any significant way. Read HERE
Month: November 2024
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck: Europe and the USA: Europe will lose the next round too
It is truly paradoxical: in the USA, where the state has successfully been relied on for decades to keep the economy running, Donald Trump’s billionaire advisors are now calling for a radical reduction in the […]
Austerity
Wolfgang Streeck – Capitalism: Home Alone
Excerpt from Wolfgang Streeck’s book that appears this week, “Taking back Control? States and State Systems after Globalism”, London and New York: Verso, 2024, pp. 108-21 ISBN-13: 978-18397767296 Wolfgang Streeck is Emeritus Director and Senior […]
Geopolitics
Sondos Asem – Netanyahu’s ICC arrest warrant: What to expect next
All member states are now obliged to arrest Israel’s prime minister if he arrives on their territory Sondos Asem is a journalist and news editor at Middle East Eye in London. She is a specialist […]
Geopolitics
Craig Murray – The Effects of Israeli Barbarity
Craig Murray reporting from the ground in Lebanon Craig Murray is a British former diplomat, political activist, human rights campaigner, blogger, and whistleblower Cross-posted from Craig Murray’s blog I could not tell the easy, comforting […]
Uncategorized
Anatol Lieven – UK dutifully follows Biden into Ukraine doom spiral
Kyiv now using British Storm Shadow missiles to attack Russia. This ‘Trump proofing’ is massively short-sighted Anatol Lieven is Director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He was formerly a […]
Climate Crisis
Andrew J. Hoffman: Americans face an insurability crisis as climate change worsens disasters – a look at how insurance companies set rates and coverage
Hurricane Beryl tore up homes in Freeport, Texas, in July 2024.Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Andrew J. Hoffman, University of Michigan Home insurance rates are rising in the United States, not only in Florida, which saw tens […]
Geopolitics
The Electronic Intifada: ICC issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant
Judges at the International Criminal Court have issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence chief, as well as a Hamas leader, Ibrahim Al-Masri, for alleged war crimes and crimes […]
Geopolitics
Politico – Scholz campaigns on refusal to send long-range missiles to Ukraine
An indication of how the political winds are changing: politician in Germany campaigning on NOT sending weapons for Ukraine. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Chris Hedges – Organised Oblivion
The Armenian genocide is a reminder that the genocidaires come for everything, including our memory. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served […]