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Ralph Nader – Take Your Pick: The Omnicides That Threaten Us All If We Don’t Act

January 17, 2024 Ben 0

The five omnicides: climate violence; pandemics; nuclear, chemical and biological weapons; uncontrolled AI; and kleptocratic regimes. Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate and the author of “The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future” […]

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Climate Crisis

Camille Hachez – How France’s Greens Replaced Social Policy With New Age Vibes

January 17, 2024 Ben 0

‘France’s Greens have split from the left-wing alliance and will run separately in the European elections. Their campaign launch centered on esotericism, personal development, and dance therapy — showing how little the party has to […]

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Jeffrey D. Sachs – Why Joe Biden is a Foreign Policy Failure

January 17, 2024 Ben 0

Biden has failed to keep the Military Industrial Complex on a leash. Jeffrey D. Sachs is a University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed The Earth […]

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Mahad Darar – US-UK airstrikes risk strengthening Houthi rebels’ position in Yemen and the region

January 17, 2024 Ben 0

As is typical with western intervention in the Middle East, the attacks on the Houthis are very likely to back-fire. Mahad Darar is a Ph.D. Student of Political Science at Colorado State University and an […]

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Richard Falk – In Gaza, the West Is Enabling the Most Transparent Genocide in Human History

January 17, 2024 Ben 0

Samuel Huntington’s provocative phrase “the West against the rest” now seems prophetic. Richard Falk is an international law and international relations scholar who taught at Princeton University for forty years. In 2008 he was also […]

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Jean-Luc Mélenchon: We Should All Be Thanking South Africa

January 15, 2024 Ben 0

‘Jean-Luc Mélenchon was at the International Court of Justice yesterday to hear South Africa’s case against Israeli genocide. He argues it’s had one success already: bringing international law to bear on an Israel that only […]

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Chris Hedges – The Case for Genocide

January 15, 2024 Ben 0

Genocide is the crime of all crimes – all those who commit it or are accomplices to it must be held accountable. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen […]

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Lily Lynch – Democratic Pretence

January 15, 2024 Ben 0

Analysis of the recent election in Serbia and the fallout from it. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.

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David Hearst – War on Gaza: 100 days on, a regional catastrophe looms

January 15, 2024 Ben 0

An in-depth assessment of how Israel is getting on in achieving its war aims in Gaza. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and speaker on the region […]

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Oxfam – A wealth tax on EU multi-millionaires and billionaires could raise 286.5 billion euros each year, 40% of the EU’s recovery fund

January 15, 2024 Ben 0

As the World Economic Forum begins in Davos, a new Oxfam report on inequality reveals an incredible growth in inequality in the EU. Cross-posted from the Oxfam website The EU’s five richest billionaires increased their […]

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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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