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Geopolitics

Al Jazeera – Court orders Netherlands to halt delivery of fighter jet parts to Israel

February 12, 2024 Ben 0

Incredible that it takes courts to order this, rather than the initiative of politicians, but that is sadly where western politics is at. Read the article HERE.

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Tomaso Ferrando – Address the root causes of European farmers’ anger

February 12, 2024 Ben 0

The demands of those on the farmers’ protests are complex, but they all agree that a food system that treats food like any other commodity is a root cause of the problem. Tomaso Ferrando is […]

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EU politics

Ben Wray – In Europe, Platform Workers Are Winning Limited Protections

February 12, 2024 Ben 0

Review of Leïla Chaibi MEP’s new book, ‘Pirate MEP: How I infiltrated the European Machine’, which explains what it’s like to be a left activist in the heart of Brussels and her fight for a […]

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Alex Lo – When celebrated dissidents find the grass isn’t greener on the other side

February 12, 2024 Ben 0

Ai Weiwei joins a long line of dissenters such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Liu Xiaobo who became disenchanted by the West. Alex Lo has been a South China Morning Post columnist since 2012, covering major […]

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The Left Book Review – The State of Capitalism

February 12, 2024 Ben 0

We are living in a historical interregnum, as Antonio Gramsci famously described it, where the old order of global capitalism and American global hegemony is dying, but the new cannot be born. That’s the key […]

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Geopolitics

Peter Oborne – David Cameron has fallen for Israel’s dodgy dossier on Unrwa

February 7, 2024 Ben 0

Everything written here is just as true for all of the other western governments which acted on Israel’s allegations about Unrwa without verifying them. Peter Oborne is a British journalist. His latest book is The […]

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Climate Crisis

Clara Bourgin – Why green activists joined farmers protests for fairer EU farming policies

February 7, 2024 Ben 0

Farmers don’t need back-sliding on climate goals, they need policies which rein in corporate power. Clara Bourgin is the food, agriculture, and nature campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe. Cross-posted from Common Dreams (first […]

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Climate Crisis

Bill McKibben – Our Financial System Is a Suicide Machine

February 7, 2024 Ben 0

Some of the world’s biggest banks are now back-tracking on prior climate commitments – climate action isn’t just not moving forwards, it’s going backwards. Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and […]

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Geopolitics

John Rees – War on Gaza: A strategic blunder to hasten US decline

February 7, 2024 Ben 0

A prescient assessment of the state of US imperial power in the world. John Rees is a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a co-founder of the Stop the War Coalition. Cross-posted […]

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EU politics

David Miller wins landmark employment tribunal case against Bristol University over anti-Zionist beliefs

February 5, 2024 Ben 0

“This judgment establishes for the first time ever that anti-Zionist beliefs are protected in the workplace.” From ‘Rahman Lowe’, Professor David Miller’s legal representatives. Read the statement HERE.

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

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Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate by Dani Rodrik

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Book Review by Walden Bello Dani Rodrik has impeccable credentials as an economist. He is an expert in many areas, including trade and development, and is one of Harvard University’s leading lights. In recent years, […]

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