Ukraine’s new mobilisation law seeks more men for the meat-grinder. Tarik Cyril Amar is a historian from Germany, currently at Koç University, Istanbul, expert on Ukraine, Russia, and Europe, and the author of “The Paradox [...]
The story of the New York Times’ decline from someone who saw some of it from the inside. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York [...]
Oil producers should be getting shutdown by now if the Paris climate agreement meant anything. Instead, they plan to quadruple output by 2030. Cross-posted from Counterpunch Picture by United Nations Photo: Closing Ceremony of COP21 [...]
Participants in the Palestine Congress in Berlin which was scheduled to take place from Friday to Sunday 12-14th of April but was physically shutdown by German police, have issued the following declaration. You can sign [...]
Netanyahu is completely out of control, thanks to the United States. Once again Biden claims to be in charge. We shall see. Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-supported independent journalist from Melbourne, Australia. Her political writings [...]
The IMF is making it starkly clear that the capitalist mode of production is failing to deliver on increased productivity, essential to meet the social needs of 8bn humans. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the [...]
“Netanyahu will use it as the pretext for another provocation, because he’s bent on starting this war,” one writer predicted Jessica Corbett is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams Cross-posted from Common [...]
The top Israeli historian is just like Israel. Shameful and embarrassing …. and murderous. Norman Finkelstein is is an American political scientist and activist. His primary fields of research are the politics of the Holocaust [...]
At the side of Israel, Berlin is finding its inner authoritarian again, with crackdowns at home and contempt for international law abroad. Tarik Cyril Amar is a historian from Germany, currently at Koç University, Istanbul, [...]
Let us create a better Europe beyond neo-liberalism together.
Thank you.
“THE STATE OF THE UNION”
Together with Conter, BRAVE NEW EUROPE will be presenting a series of interviews in the run-up to the EU parliamentary election to be held on 6 to 9 of June.
The series of interviews entitled "The State of the Union" will featrue leading thinkers concerning the EU starting on 2 May:
2 May with Wolfgang Streeck - "Quo Vadis the European Union?"
8 May: Costas Lapavitsas - "The state of the EU economy"
16 May: Tara McCormack - "The militarisation of the EU"
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These will be live zoomcasts free of charge. Registration details will follow.
Book Review by Branko Milanović Professor Tongdong Bai (whom I had the pleasure to meet in Shanghai and who kindly alerted me to his new book) has recently published a book called perhaps somewhat provocatively [...]
