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James Dyke, Johan Rockström – The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality.

November 24, 2025 Ben Wray 0

The aim now is not to stop climate chaos, it is to limit the damage as much as possible. James Dyke is Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter. Johan […]

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Anna Toniolo, Corina Petridi, Pierluigi Bizzini – Boosted By Floods: Private Insurance in the Climate Emergency

November 24, 2025 Ben Wray 0

As floods become more common in Europe, the cost of insurance grows, a financial burden that weighs heaviest on those with least. Anna Toniolo is a freelance journalist and a member of the FADA Collective. […]

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Geopolitics

Barry Malone – Why the ‘international’ media suddenly cares about Sudan

November 18, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Africans killing Africans doesn’t draw the racist Western media’s gaze. Barry Malone is an independent journalist and author of the Proximities newsletter. Cross-posted from Middle East Eye There was a moment in 2023 when Sudan was all […]

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Ian Proud – Zelensky remains a creature of the corruption plaguing Ukraine

November 18, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Endemic corruption is not going away in Ukraine – the influx of hundreds of billions in military aid has only super-charged it. Ian Proud was a member of His Britannic Majesty’s Diplomatic Service from 1999 […]

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Michael Roberts: Historical Materialism 2025 part two – nature, rent, profit and AI

November 18, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Some of the big questions about modern capitalism are taken on here. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog You can read part 1 […]

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Politico – TotalEnergies accused of complicity in war crimes over Mozambique container massacre

November 18, 2025 Ben Wray 0

‘French energy giant TotalEnergies was formally accused Monday of complicity in war crimes and torture in a criminal complaint filed in Paris over a massacre at its Mozambique gas plant’. Read the full article HERE.

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EU politics

Jeffrey Sommers, Cosmin Marian – Why Latvia has grown tired of ‘European values’

November 17, 2025 Ben Wray 0

The disappointments of neoliberalism post-Latvian independence has led to ‘European values’ falling out of favour. Cosmin Marian is Chair and Professor of the Department of Political Science at Romania’s Babeș-Bolyai University. He works on comparative […]

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José Álvarez Díaz – When it comes to forest fires, austerity kills

November 17, 2025 Ben Wray 0

2025 is the first year that a million hectares were burnt in forest fires across Europe, but as the scale of the problem grows the scale of public resources to tackle it does not. José […]

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Economics

Michael Roberts – Chile: another turn to the right?

November 17, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Chile looks to be another country in Latin America where the left is on the way out, with Boric’s government failing to tackle the cost of living crisis. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Chile had […]

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Geopolitics

Ben Wray – Liberalism Is Surrendering to the Hard-Right Challenge

November 17, 2025 Ben Wray 0

‘As Donald Trump tramples over the norms of the postwar liberal order, centrist political leaders are only too keen to accommodate him. Global liberalism is collapsing, while the battle over what replaces it is just […]

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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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