Geopolitics
Month: February 2025
EU politics
Jeffrey Sachs: The Geopolitics of Peace – Speech to the European Parliament
Edited transcript of Jeffrey Sachs’ speech to the European Parliament 19 February, 2025 concernong EU, the NATO proxy war in Ukraine, and Israel’s genocide in Palestine Jeffrey D. Sachs is a University Professor and Director […]
Geopolitics
Craig Murray – Islamic Resistance Movements and Israel
Craig’s last report from Lebanon including a good analysis of the internal political situation in the nation. Craig Murray is a British former diplomat, political activist, human rights campaigner, blogger, and whistleblower Cross-posted from Craig […]
Economics
Dylan Sullivan, Jason Hickel: Plundering Africa – Income deflation and unequal ecological exchange under structural adjustment programmes
In Africa in the 1980s and 1990s structural adjustment programmes led to a significant increase in ‘unequal ecological exchange’, a process whereby African countries were compelled to export more materials, energy, and other resources than […]
Geopolitics
The Electric Intifada: Israel pounds West Bank children and infrastructure
Israel is implementing in the occupied West Bank what it has done in historic Palestine since the state’s inception: forcibly removing Palestinians from their homes and barring them from returning. Approximately 40,000 Palestinians were forcibly […]
Economics
Thomas Piketty: Trump, national-capitalism at bay
Let’s be clear: Trump’s national capitalism likes to flaunt its strength, but it is actually fragile and at bay. Europe has the means to confront it, provided it regains confidence in itself, forges new alliances […]
EU-Institutions
Alastair Crooke – America as Republic, not as Empire – Europe’s “sound and fury” after jaw-dropping pivots in U.S. policy
Trump does not buy into the primary lie intended as the glue which holds this entire EU geo-political structure together. Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum […]
EU politics
Patrick Lawrence – Chihuahuas, Not Dobermans
Trump’s determination to end the Ukraine war has forced the Europeans, at last, to go their own way. And they charge in precisely the wrong direction. Patrick Lawrence, a correspondent abroad for many years, chiefly […]
National Politics
Richard D. Wolff – A Cruel Hoax: The Political Economy of Anti-immigration
A look at the historical and current role of immigrants in the US economy Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a visiting professor in the Graduate […]
Climate Crisis
Wolfgang Knorr – Climate out the Window
On the death of the holy cow of climate activism Wolfgang Knorr is a climate scientist, consultant for the European Space Agency and guest researcher at the Department of Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University […]