Geopolitics
Fréderic Lordon – Endgame
Equality in a binational, egalitarian state is the path to a viable peace in the land of Palestine. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
Articles by Ben Wray
Geopolitics
Thierry Brésillon – Macron’s plan to recognise a Palestinian state was doomed from the start
Macron’s feeble attempt to recognise the state of Palestine envisioned a Batustan type state, but even that was unacceptable to the US and Israel. Thierry Brésillon is an independent journalist based in Tunis since April […]
EU politics
Politico – Italy’s grand plan to meet NATO target: A €13.5B bridge to Sicily
Europe is a laughing stock. Read the article HERE.
Finance
Mattias Schmelzer – Financial Capitalism Is More Dangerous Than Ever Today
‘The crash of 2008 was supposed to augur the end of ultraspeculative financial capitalism. But financial actors have actually gone from strength to strength since then, and fictitious capital is a bigger menace to global […]
Geopolitics
Binoy Kampmark – The Five Percenters: NATO’s Promise of War
The agreement at The Hague for all NATO countries to spend at least 5% of GDP on defence was an arms manufacturers’ dream. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at […]
Finance
Michael Roberts – Sustainable development and unsustainable debt
The global north is extracting wealth from the global south in the form of debt repayments. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Today, […]
Geopolitics
Politico – NATO allies agree to 5 percent defense spending goal
Amazingly, only Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has seen sense and got an opt-out to NATO’s new demand on countries to spend 5% of their GDP on defence. All the rest are now lashed to […]
Solutions
Mass Protest Without Revolution – Interview with Vincent Bevins
The author of If We Burn, a history of the protest movements of the 2010s, explains the main ideas in the book. Vincent Bevins is an American journalist and writer. From 2011 to 2016, he […]
Geopolitics
Ali Mamouri – What now after Israel-Iran ceasefire?
The Israel-Iran war has proved inconclusive: Iran’s nuclear capacity is unlikely to be “completely eradicated”, as Trump claims. Ali Mamouri is a Research fellow at Deakin University. Cross-posted from The Conversation After 12 days of […]
Geopolitics
Seyed Hossein Mousavian – After US attack, Iran could reconsider its nuclear strategy
Ayatollah Kamenei may decide now is the time to remove the Fatwa on nuclear weapons production in Iran. Seyed Hossein Mousavian is a Visiting Research Collaborator with Princeton University and a former Chief of Iran’s […]