Geopolitics
Month: March 2025
Climate Crisis
Carbon Majors: 36 companies (inc state-owned) are responsible for over half of the world’s atmosphere-heating fossil fuel pollution
Carbon Majors traces 33.9 GtCO2e of emissions to the 169 active entities in the database in 2023, a 0.7% increase from 2022. The CO2 emissions in the database accounted for 78.4% of global fossil fuel […]
Geopolitics
Aurelien: All About Aid
Well, probably more than you wanted to know, anyway. Read HERE
Economics
Michael Roberts – Trump’s ‘little disturbance’
Trump’s tariffs are not good, neither for the US nor the world. And Europe betting on massive military spending will end no better. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger […]
Geopolitics
Mark Episkopos – Ukraine aid freeze: Trump’s diplomatic tightrope path to peace
Kyiv can’t keep holding on to unrealistic victory plans and peace formulas Mark Episkopos is a Eurasia Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is also an Adjunct Professor of History at […]
Climate Crisis
Wolfgang Knorr – The AI Trap
Why AI won’t save us from climate disaster 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 Cross-posted from […]
EU politics
Ian Proud – Kaja Kallas is the wrong person to lead EU foreign policy after Zelensky’s drubbing in the White House
At a very basic level, she isn’t a diplomat, she lacks a democratic mandate and she has no plan. Ian Proud was a member of HM Diplomatic Service from 1999 to 2023. From July 2014 […]
EU politics
Kate Mackenzie, Tim Sahay – Europe Enters Its Metal Era
Analysis of Europe’s defence and energy industrial base, which is not prepared for the arms race which Brussels now wants all European countries to engage in. In ‘Phenomenal World’. Read the article HERE.
Economics
Richard D. Wolff, Michael Hudson – The Horizon Nears on America’s Free Financial Ride
Is the rising price of gold a threat to dollar hegemony? Cross-posted from Michael Hudson’s blog NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi everybody, today is Thursday, February 20, 2025, and our friends Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson are […]
Climate Crisis
Harrison Stetler – Why Environmentalists Are Still Losing
‘Dissatisfaction at established green parties and environmental NGOs has fed the rise of more confrontational forms of activism. The task can’t just be to raise awareness but to mobilize millions of people in fighting for […]