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Anatol Lieven: US Experience in Afghanistan offers lessons for Ukraine, if leaders will heed them

September 11, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Another anniversary, the second since the US was chased out of Afghanistan, should make excitable warmongers stop and reflect. Anatol Lieven is Director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He […]

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John P. Ruehl – How Countries Prepare for Population Growth and Decline

September 11, 2023 Ben Wray 0

An overview of the world’s changing demographics and what governments are trying to do about them, a key issue but seldom discussed. John P. Ruehl is an Australian-American journalist living in Washington, D.C. He is […]

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Martha Myers: Amid rising climate catastrophes, why is the EU putting an oil man in charge?

September 6, 2023 Ben Wray 0

European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen has appointed former Shell employee Wopke Hoekstra as the new Climate Commissioner. Hoekstra’s “most noteworthy political achievement regarding climate is as a target of a parliamentary inquiry, where […]

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Katharina Natter – Reinventing a broken wheel: What the EU-Tunisia deal reveals about Europe’s migration cooperation

September 6, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Useful insight into what countries on the other side of the Mediterranean gain from signing migration control deals with the EU. It’s not good. Katharina Natter is Senior Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political […]

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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies – Is CIA Director Bill Burns a Biden Yes-Man, a Putin Apologist, or a Peacemaker?

September 6, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Biden has appointed Bill Burns, who has consistently criticised NATO expansion in Eastern Europe throughout his career, as CIA Director. Medea Benjamin is co-founder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK: Women for Peace. Nicolas J. S. […]

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Sigrid Melchior, Harald Schumann – Media freedom: can Brussels agree on landmark law to protect Europe’s increasingly at-risk journalists?

September 6, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Latest developments around attacks on freedom of the press in Europe and the EU Media Freedom Act. In ‘Investigate Europe’. Read the article HERE.

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Stewart Lansley: Poverty in Britain is firmly linked to the country’s mountain of private wealth – Labour must address this growing inequality

September 6, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Labour appear to have given up on tackling poverty and inequality before they have even got into power. Stewart Lansley is Visiting Fellow at the School of Policy Studies, University of Bristol. Cross-posted from The […]

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Paola Tamma – Europe’s ‘template’ for migration: Tunisian strongman’s racist clampdown

September 4, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The EU’s latest partner across the Med is carrying out a campaign of violence, mass expulsions and political repression. In ‘Politco.EU’. Read the article HERE.

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Peter Oborne – The Telegraph sale: The UAE bid is a risk to press freedom

September 4, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The United Arab Emirates, which ranks 119th in the world press freedom index, might buy one of the UK’s most influential newspapers. Peter Oborne is a British journalist and commentator. Cross-posted from Middle East Eye […]

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George Kerevan – How the SNP was seduced by the EU’s fake internationalism

September 4, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The history of the Scottish National Party’s trajectory from arch-critics of the EU in the 1970s to arch-sycophants today. George Kerevan is a Scottish journalist and economist, and a former SNP MP. Cross-posted from Conter […]

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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

December 28, 2025 0

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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