Geopolitics
Other News: What Happens if Trump beats Biden?
Fumiyasu Akegawa, Chair & CEO of DEVNET International/Japan, speculates on what impact a Trump victory would have on geopolitics Read HERE Image: GOC-actu-/Wikimedia
Year: 2024
EU politics
Euronews – Europe’s arms imports nearly double, France overtakes Russia as world’s second-largest exporter
New statistics on European arms imports and exports make for grim reading for peaceniks. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Gig Economy Project – EU set to pass Platform Work Directive after last minute U-turns
Platform Work Directive four-year legislative saga finally over after Estonia and Greece u-turns, leaving France and Germany isolated. The Gig Economy Project is a BRAVE NEW EUROPE media network for gig workers in Europe. Click here to […]
Geopolitics
Alastair Crooke – Europe is fearful and desperate
Europe has heavily over-invested in its Ukraine project, and now sees it crumbling. In ‘Al Maydeen English’. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Naomi Klein: The Iron Dome is global – and so is the resistance
As Gustavo Pedro says: “It’s barbarism, or Global 1933.” Naomi Klein is a renowned author and activist. Her most recent book is ‘Doppelganger’. Cross-posted from Red Pepper When my dear friend Asad Rehman asked me […]
Geopolitics
Paul Whiteley – Labour’s Muslim vote: what the data so far says about the election risk of Keir Starmer’s Gaza position
The Labour party in the UK may lose not just Muslim voters to apathy, but all of those disgusted by the party’s complicity in Israel’s colonial war in Gaza. Paul Whiteley is a Professor in […]
Media
T.J. Coles – The New Atheism at 20: How an Intellectual Movement Exploited Rationalism to Promote War
The New Atheists have sought to identify religious zealotry as the cause of Arab anger, disguising the obvious cause: western foreign policy. T. J. Coles is director of the Plymouth Institute for Peace Research and the […]
Corruption
Michael Roberts – Portugal: swinging right?
Fact is, since the introduction of the euro the only thing that has flourished in Portugal is corruption. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog […]
EU politics
Tarik Cyril Amar – Pride and Prejudices and “Totalausfall”
Why Germany’s “Coming-to-Terms” with its Nazi past has not only failed but backfired. Tarik Cyril Amar (@TarikCyrilAmar) is a historian from Germany, currently at Koç University, Istanbul, expert on Ukraine, Russia, and Europe, and the […]
Economics
Michael Hudson – Debt Forgiveness in the Bronze Age
Whether in the realms of trade or agriculture, the operative principle was that debtors should not lose their economic liberty by being held liable for “acts of God.” Michael Hudson is an American economist, a […]