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Geopolitics

Moazzam Begg – Five years after the fall of Kabul, ‘war on terror’ ghosts have come home

August 25, 2026 Ben 1

A former Guantanamo detainee finds that many of those who were his inmates are now in power in Kabul and Damascus, picking-up the pieces of what the US empire left behind. Moazzam Begg is a […]

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BBC – China hits out at ‘illegal’ new US sanctions on Iran and trading partners

August 25, 2026 Ben 0

It’s difficult to believe the US would actually go through with cutting China off from the Dollar for trading with Iran, given the consequences for the US economy would be devastating. Read the article HERE.

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After 6 months of war, why aren’t oil prices even higher? Interview w/ Rory Johnston

August 25, 2026 Ben 0

Predictions of an oil price apocalypse from the closing of the Strait of Hormuz have not yet materialised, but the long run consequences are still set to be steep. Sam Fraser is a writer based […]

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Environment

Ibrahim Al-Marashi – What coffee and qat tell us about Yemen’s past and present

August 25, 2026 Ben 0

Yemen’s shift from coffee to qat crops intensified ecological pressures in in the impoverished north, creating the conditions for the Houthis’ rise. Ibrahim Al-Marashi is Associate Professor of Middle East history at California State University […]

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Gerhard Klaas – Three months of mass protests in Albania

August 25, 2026 Ben 0

The media has stopped paying attention but the protests against Jared Kushner’s luxury resort continue. In ‘International Viewpoint’. Read the article HERE.

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Euronews – French election 2027: Poll puts Mélenchon in contention for run-off

August 24, 2026 Ben 0

A Mélenchon presidential victory next year would be a turning point in French and European political history. Read the article HERE.

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Gerald Sussman – Mearsheimer’s “Offensive Realism” versus Radical Realism

August 24, 2026 Ben 0

Millions have rightly turned to John Mearsheimer for compelling critique of US foreign policy, but it’s also important to recognise the limits of his ‘realist’ worldview. Gerald Sussman is professor emeritus of urban studies and […]

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National Politics

David Jamieson – Social Democracy Upside Down 

August 24, 2026 Ben 0

‘With Labour’s working class base eroded, its old stabilising service to British capitalism can no longer be performed. There is little prospect of durably reversing this fracture.’ In Tribune. Read the article HERE.

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Economics

Mahyar Ramezankhani – Sanctions didn’t break Iran. They hardened it.

August 24, 2026 Ben 0

Iran’s economy is capable of withstanding American punishment because it had already adapted to isolation from the Dollar for many years before this war began. Mahyar Ramezankhani is a professor of economics and an economic […]

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Stuart Jones, Andrew Crossland, Chris Groves – Empty North Sea oil fields could store enough green hydrogen to power the country for seven years

August 24, 2026 Ben 0

A way to make use of decommissioned oil infrastructure that solves the problem of renewable energy storage. Stuart Jones is Professor of Sedimentology & Geoenergy at Durham University. Andrew Crossland is Professor in Practice in […]

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Reindustrialise Britain – A Strategy for Wealth Creation by Costas Lapavitsas, Larry Elliot, Doug Nicholls

September 4, 2026 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose With the exception of the Epstein Class and the Professional and Managerial Caste in Britain there is now a broad consensus that neo-liberalism has failed the nation. It has […]

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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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