The Armenians’ “greatest error” was “to give in to a fatal hubris of thinking they could create a ‘Greater Armenia’ on territory emptied of the people who had lived there”, wrote the historian Ronald Grigor Suny. The irredentist ideology which was legitimised in the Nineties would be Armenia’s downfall.
Geopolitics
Oren Ziv – ‘I’m bored, so I shoot’: The Israeli army’s approval of free-for-all violence in Gaza
‘Israeli soldiers describe the near-total absence of firing regulations in the Gaza war, with troops shooting as they please, setting homes ablaze, and leaving corpses on the streets — all with their commanders’ permission.’ In […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Key economic policy organisations still claim that public spending undermines private spending
It is hard to imagine that so little progress has been made in dismantling the mainstream macroeconomics paradigm over the last decade within the institutions of government. We have had the GFC, and now, the […]
Fake News
Geoffrey Bindman on Labour’s antisemitism scandal: ‘There has been political manipulation’
The leading human rights lawyer, himself Jewish, says the party has mishandled the issue, with claims of institutional antisemitism against the party not backed by the evidence Read Here Photo: MEE/Hossam Sarhan
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