Geopolitics
Kyiv Independent: Once a hub in the rear, Pavlohrad is now in Russia’s glide bomb crosshairs
We have been told for weeks that Ukraine is winning the war. This is not what victory looks like. Read Article HERE Photo: Wikiwand
Month: August 2026
Geopolitics
Juan Cole – Spoiled Rotten Donald Trump Can’t Buy His Way Out of the Mess He Made When He Started War With Iran
Most people do not know that the term “checkmate” in chess is a loan from Persian. “Shah-mat” means the king is confused and helpless. Trump may learn this hard way—but not without bringing much pain […]
Economics
Nate Bear – How Finland Destroyed Itself For NATO
Finland abandoned it’s socialist policies to embrace Russiphobia, join NATO and give billions of Euros to US and Israeli arms companies, thus furthering the interests of neo-liberalism and the Epstein Class Nate Bear is a journalist, […]
National Politics
Chris Hedges – The Dead
The last act of death is not mortality but the erasure of memory. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as […]
Economics
Larry C. Johnson: The Confession in the Escalation: If Iran Is Beaten and Hormuz Is Ours, Why the “Unprecedented” Sanctions?
In my previous piece — The Walls Have Doors Now — I argued that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s promised “measures like have never been seen in the history of the economic isolation of a country” […]
Geopolitics
Iason Athanasiadis: Greece’s alliance with Israel is becoming a domestic liability
Athens sees Israel as an important partner, but the relationship is facing mounting anger over arms sales, high rents and Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza Read Article HERE Photo: X
Geopolitics
Declassified UK: Jury refuses to convict seven Palestine Action ‘organisers’ for Israeli arms factory raid
After 37 hours of deliberation, the jury was unable to reach verdicts on most of the charges Read Article HERE
Economics
Branko Milanović – The spirit of the nineties and the malaise of today
The entire pacific and cosmopolitan spirit if the nineties is exposed as an ideological cover to service interests of the rich Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book, The […]
Economics
Larry C. Johnson – The Walls Have Doors Now: Why Bessent’s “Unprecedented” Sanctions on Iran – Operation Economic Fury – Will Fail
Having lost the military war against Iran, the US is about to lose the economic war with its “Operation Economic Fury” offensive Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – Is economics changing?
Macroeconomics remains divorced from what is going on in the real economy Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Photo licensed under the Creative […]