Solutions
Lily Lynch – Sense of an Ending
A look at the massive student protests rocking Serbia. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
Year: 2025
Geopolitics
Mike Fredenburg – The folly of PR-driven strategy: Ukraine’s doomed 155th Brigade
Putting optics before sound military tactics and strategy has not been good for Ukraine’s war effort. Mike Fredenburg has been writing on defense policy and politics for over 30 years, with articles in numerous publications […]
EU politics
Andrea Pettrachin, Matteo Bassoli: The Italy-Albania migration deal – a policy failure?
Meloni wants to be seen to be fighting with liberal judges and NGOs for control over the migration and asylum issue. In that sense, the fact the Albania migration deal hasn’t worked is not a […]
Climate Crisis
Wolfgang Knorr – Why Net Zero is a Trap
The need for radical honesty 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 Wolfgang’s Substack Clearcut […]
EU politics
Alastair Crooke – The greatest (geo-political) showman’s “inside out” political solution
The US re-colonising Europe Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Strategic Culture online journal How to do the impossible? America is instinctively an […]
Economics
Michael von der Schulenburg – Die Bundestagswahl und die Verdrängung des Ukrainekrieges
Am 23. Februar findet in Deutschland eine Bundestagswahl statt. Angesichts der drohenden Niederlage halten deutsche Politiker und Medien die Wähler bewusst im Dunkeln Michael von der Schulenburg, ehemals Assistant Secretary-General (ASG), arbeitete 34 Jahre für […]
Geopolitics
EU politics
ARTnews: Fareed Armaly Rejects Käthe Kollwitz Prize Citing Censorship in Germany
Why can’t the Germans have some fun? It is just a genocide and fascism. This is what their culture is about. Read HERE
Economics
Juan Laborda – The United States, Humanity’s Greatest Bubble
The U.S. model – financialization, rentier oligarchy, and the imposition of dollar hegemony – is hitting its limits. Juan Laborda is Professor at the Department of Organization Engineering, Business Administration and Statistics, Universidad Politécnica de […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – Trade tariffs as economic policy: the debate
An interesting look at the discussion around Trump’s tariff policies and if they will benefit the US consumer or be detrimental Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael […]