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David Hearst – Iran has won the war. Trump and Netanyahu now face a reckoning

May 26, 2026 Ben Wray 0

The idea of Trump and Netanyahu was to destroy Iran as a force within the region, thereby forcing all countries in the Middle East to submit to their colonial plans. That clearly hasn’t happened. David […]

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Politico – Don’t let Big Tech hide ecological cost of AI, environment agency chief tells EU

May 26, 2026 Ben Wray 0

If Big Tech can build data centres and hide the energy consumption of those data centres, transparency is dead in the EU. Read the full article HERE.

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Trita Parsi – Iran to Israel: You hit Lebanon, and we’ll hit the UAE

May 26, 2026 Ben Wray 0

Tit-for-tat strikes between Iran and the US don’t seem to have scuppered a possible deal yet, but long term the threat Israel poses to Lebanon may make any lasting peace impossible. Trita Parsi is the […]

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Michael Roberts – Edmund Phelps: free markets and inflation expectations

May 26, 2026 Ben Wray 0

A profile of the late Edmund Phelps, a neoliberal economist until the end. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog American Edmund Phelps recently […]

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Euronews – Germany resists EU members’ push for a tougher stance on China

May 26, 2026 Ben Wray 0

Germany’s confusion about the sort of relationship it wants with China is symptomatic of an EU that hasn’t woken up to the fact that it can’t compete with Chinese manufacturing and neither can it afford […]

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STV – Peter Murrell jailed after admitting embezzling £400,000 from SNP

May 25, 2026 Ben Wray 0

A party chief who was in position for more than 20 years taking advantage of the enthusiasm for Scottish independence among grassroots activists to embezzle funds – why is this not surprising? Read the article […]

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Trita Parsi – The US and Iran are on the verge of a deal, and the warmongers hate it

May 25, 2026 Ben Wray 0

If this deal gets over the line, it will be dressed up as ‘everyone is a winner’, but the reality is that the US will have lost badly, and the Zionists know it. Trita Parsi […]

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Matt Huber – The Key to Climate Action Is Building Working-Class Power

May 25, 2026 Ben Wray 0

‘We can’t address climate change without the working class. Matt Huber argues that an explicit political or rhetorical focus on the climate crisis itself may not be helpful in that effort.’ In Jacobin. Read the […]

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Why I’m campaigning against conscription in Germany – Interview w/ Felix Krekow Rojas

May 25, 2026 Ben Wray 0

Good to see young people in Germany resisting attempts to conscript them into Germany’s militarist machine. Interview by Michael Lavalette, member of the Stop the War Coalition in the UK. Cross-posted from Counterfire Could you […]

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Jean-Michel Lafleur, Abdeslam Marfouk – What the public thinks about regularising undocumented migrants depends on how it is framed

May 25, 2026 Ben Wray 0

Regularisation campaigns create more equal and just societies and have benefits for everyone, but the public doesn’t often hear that message. Jean-Michel Lafleur is the Director of the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) […]

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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

May 8, 2026 0

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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The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform by Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian

March 27, 2026 0

Book Review by Branko Milanović Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian’s The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform is a book about how China transformed itself between the Great Leap Forward and the early […]

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