Geopolitics
Anatol Lieven – Mutual Delusion
Fantasies all around in the seemingly never-ending Ukraine War. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
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Geopolitics
Marchella Ward – Zionism has warped the lexicon, so words are now convenient weapons
Words are weapons, and the Zionists use control over language to criminalise their political enemies. Marchella Ward is Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University. She is currently writing a book entitled Classicism: How […]
Geopolitics
David Hearst – Why the Mecca Agreement is a necessary show of force
There’s lots of ways to interpret the Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani defence pact: one is that it is a deliberate snub to the US-Israel axis. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a […]
Geopolitics
DropSite News – Trump “low-keys” Iran; Netanyahu rejects BoP plan for Gaza; Ukraine kills 13 in strike targeting Russian refinery
Update on important global developments, especially in the Middle East. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Matilde Rosina – Ceuta shows how migration can be weaponised: but numbers are falling, not rising
The fallout from Ceuta has much more to do with politics than it does the reality of the EU’s external borders Dr Matilde Rosina is Lecturer at Brunel University London and Visiting Fellow at the […]
Geopolitics
Ahmed Najar – How Israel and the European far-right tried to exploit Ceuta
Netanyahu’s best chance of stopping the rot when it comes to international support for Israel is to sow hate and racism, towards muslims in particular. In ‘Al Jazeera’. Read the article HERE.
Climate Crisis
Bill McKibben – Europe’s extreme summer shows the climate can’t be hushed
Wildfires have brought the issue of climate action back into the public debate, just as politicians had thought they were safe to dump it for good. Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury […]
Geopolitics
Antony Loewenstein – Israeli spyware and election interference is a threat to democracy everywhere
Israel’s ‘spyware diplomacy’ should have every country in the world worrying about election interference by the zionist state. Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist, best–selling author, filmmaker and co–founder of Declassified Australia. He’s written for […]
Climate Crisis
Matt Huber – The Class Divide Haunting Climate Politics
Workers are favourable to pro-climate policies that speak directly to their everyday material concerns. In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
Financial Institutions
Michael Hudson, Radhika Desai – Wall Street’s Two Wings
The crisis of American politics is much deeper than Donald Trump. Cross-posted from Michael Hudson’s blog Radhika Desai: Hello and welcome to another Geopolitical Economy Hour, the socialist and anti-imperialist conversation that illuminates the fast-changing […]