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Vijay Prashad – Why Did Trump Send His Warships to Venezuela?

December 15, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Overthrowing the Venezuelan government is part of the US’ big plan, outlined in its new National Security Strategy, to ensure complete domination of every quarter of the Western hemisphere. Vijay Prashad’s most recent book (with […]

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Hamid Dabashi – The New York Times discovers its conscience when the murdered journalist isn’t Palestinian

December 15, 2025 Ben Wray 0

There are so many liberal journalists who haven’t realised yet that they have lost all moral authority by supporting or ignoring the Gaza genocide. Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative […]

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Olivier De Schutter – Eradicating Poverty: Growth Is Not the Answer

December 15, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Distribution has to be at the core of any serious strategy to eliminate poverty in Europe. Olivier De Schutter was appointed as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights by the UN Human Rights […]

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Politico – Using Russian assets to fund Ukraine looks ‘increasingly difficult,’ says EU top diplomat

December 15, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Is there any scheme which the European Commission has tried against Russia over the past four years which hasn’t back-fired? Every time Brussels tries to do something it only ends up exposing their own weakness. […]

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Tamara Gausi, Marta Checa, Mathilde Dorcadie – As Equal Times closes, the work continues

December 10, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Another independent, progressive media outlet in Europe has bitten the dust. There are very few of us left now. Cross-posted from Equal Times This is it. Our final article. Equal Times, the global labour news platform, […]

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Michael Roberts – Extreme inequality – and what to do about it

December 10, 2025 Ben Wray 0

The world is becoming more unequal and the growing divide is driven by the imperatives of international capitalism and imperialism. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from […]

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Patrick E. Shea – Donald Trump’s peace agreements are also business deals

December 10, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Trump gutted America’s institutional mechanisms for ensuring trade works in the US’s favour and now relies on bilateral wheeling and dealing, which makes a splash but also comes with longer-term weaknesses. Patrick E. Shea is […]

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Hossam el-Hamalawy – Hyper-Zionism: How Israel became Germany’s ‘reason’ for being

December 9, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Review of a new book of essays about Germany’s hyper-Zionism Hossam el-Hamalawy is a journalist and scholar-activist who researches the Egyptian military and security services. Cross-posted from Middle East Eye Hans Kundnani’s Hyper-Zionism: Germany, the Nazi […]

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Tetyana Malyarenko, Stefan Wolff – New US national security strategy adds to Ukraine’s woes and exacerbates Europe’s dilemmas

December 9, 2025 Ben Wray 0

There is growing awareness that both Russia and the US can win this war by sacrificing both Ukraine and Europe. Stefan Wolff is Professor of International Security at the University of Birmingham. Tetyana Malyarenk is […]

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Michael Roberts – Stagflation and the K-shaped economy

December 9, 2025 Ben Wray 0

In the United States, workers are getting poorer as prices rise, but big tech firms are booming via the AI bubble, hence the economy’s K-shape. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London […]

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Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by Avi Shlaim

January 15, 2026 0

Book Review by Hossam el-Hamalawy Avi Shlaim’s Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine is a book written in the midst of catastrophe, not after its dust has settled.  It is a work shaped […]

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After Nations – The Making and Unmaking of a World Order by Rana Dasgupta

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Reviewed by Branko Milanovic´ This new splendid and beautifully-written book by Rana Dasgupta has as its title After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order. The idea, briefly sketched in the introduction and […]

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