Geopolitics
Cihan Tugal – Erdoğan’s Syria?
Turkey has clearly won a geopolitical victory, but fantasies about a Turkish takeover are overblown. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
Year: 2024
EU politics
Anatol Lieven – European ‘peacekeepers’ in Ukraine? A horrible idea.
Such a plan is a recipe for permanent danger. Anatol Lieven is Director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He was formerly a professor at Georgetown University in Qatar and in […]
Corruption
Richard D. Wolff, Michael Hudson – The Irony of Calling the Opponents of Nazism Nazis
Symptoms of decline in liberal capitalist democracy showing from South Korea to Germany. Cross-posted from Michael Hudson’s blog NIMA: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, December 5th, and our friends, Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff are […]
Geopolitics
Vijay Prashad – The fall of the Assad government in Syria
In-depth analysis of the dynamics which led to Assad’s fall. Vijay Prashad’s most recent book (with Noam Chomsky) is The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and the Fragility of US Power (New Press, August 2022). This article […]
Uncategorized
Le Monde: Israel to close embassy in Dublin over ‘anti-Israeli policies’
Ireland has recognized a Palestinian state and backed an ICC case accusing Israel of ‘genocide.’ Read HERE
Geopolitics
Glenn Diesen – A Major War in the Middle East is Inevitable
Speculative, but there are some excellent questions in this analysis Glenn Diesen is a professor of political science at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), with a focus on geoeconomics, Russian foreign policy and Eurasian […]
Economics
Michael Roberts: Overproduction or overaccumulation? – the debate
A further look at Marx’s law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Back last […]
Geopolitics
Mark Episkopos – It’s time to retire the Munich analogy
Neoconservatives keep trotting it out to justify costly and dangerous interventions Mark Episkopos is a Eurasia Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is also an Adjunct Professor of History at Marymount […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck – Argentina: The libertarian messiah and his prophets
In libertarian circles, where the leader of the German liberals, Christian Lindner, regularly moves, it has become chic to refer to the ‘successes’ of the Argentine president elected a year ago, thus creating the impression […]
Geopolitics
Susan Abulhawa – This House Believes Israel is an Apartheid State Responsible for Genocide
28 November 2024 We did not post this earlier because the format blocked us from reposting the video. We however post the text HERE @OxfordUnion has cut out the following 5 parts, totaling 73 seconds: […]