Geopolitics
Month: July 2026
Climate Crisis
John Bellamy Foster, Lynn Fries – A socialist transformation cannot ignore the transformation of human relations with nature
In Part 2, John Bellamy Foster debunks the misconception that socialism and materialism had no role in the development of ecological analysis. His research shows that socialist transformation involves the transformation of human relations with […]
Geopolitics
Stavroula Pabst – Ukraine’s ‘turned tide’ doesn’t comport ‘with basic military reality’
Cajoled by Zelensky, Western media is dangerously upselling — again — Kyiv’s ability to win Stavroula Pabst is a reporter for Responsible Statecraft Cross-posted from Responsible Statecraft An anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine from 2015. […]
Economics
Ben Wray – The Cloud Cartel Has Created a Global Rentier Economy
‘The US tech giants have achieved an unprecedented concentration of economic control, forcing other firms, American or not, to pay intellectual rents. These cloud hegemons are boosting US global power even as it declines in […]
Neo-Liberalism in the EU
Maike Schmidt, Theo Harris – The Private Finance Myth: Why The Market Won’t Solve Europe’s Infrastructure Crisis
Using private finance to build public infrastructure is short-sighted and almost always ends up costing the public purse more in the long run. Maike Schmidt is an assistant researcher at the New Economics Foundation and […]
Media
‘Our media is shaped and distorted by capitalism’: Interview w/ Des Freeman
Author of a new book titled ‘Capitalism and the Media’. Des Freeman is a professor of media and communications at Goldsmiths, London. Cross-posted from Counterfire Could you tell us a little about yourself and your […]
Climate Crisis
Al Jazeera – France and Spain brace for heatwave that could worsen raging wildfires
We are well beyond the point of predicting how climate crises will compound and multiply one another: it is happening in Europe now. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Ramzy Baroud – How Village Resistance Disrupted Israel’s West Bank Strategy
One small town in the West Bank refused to accept quiet annihilation by the Zionist colonialists and fought back, showing Palestinian resistance is still alive. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of the […]
Geopolitics
David Hearst: Karim Khan dared to hold Israel to account – and that’s why he was brought down
The ICC arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu has, to date, been the only serious attempt by the international community to bring the Israeli state to justice for the genocide in Gaza. The person who brought […]
Geopolitics
Al Jazeera – Iran accuses Ukraine of deadly attack on Caspian commercial vessel
Zelensky is clearly trying to show the US and Israel just how loyal he is. Read the article HERE.