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Farid Hafez – Europe’s most powerful party is stoking a Muslim scare

September 21, 2026 Ben 0

The Islamophobia of the European centre-right is now pretty much identical to that of the far-right, and both want to cut any funding for campaigning against anti-Muslim racism. Farid Hafez is Assistant Professor of Sociology […]

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Economics

Michael Hudson, Kathleen Tyson – The Economy at the End of the World: The Mechanics of Financial Rupture

September 21, 2026 Ben 0

Nika Dubrovsky speaks to Michael Hudson and Kathleen Tyson at the David Graeber Institute about the changing dynamics of the global system, including the rising importance of gold as a strategic asset. Cross-posted from Michael […]

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David Broder – First We Took Manhattan, Then We Took Berlin

September 21, 2026 Ben 1

On Sunday, Germany’s socialist party Die Linke won the Berlin elections for the first time. Like New York’s Zohran Mamdani, it beat the establishment parties by offering Berliners concrete action on rents and the cost […]

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Morten Høi Jensen – Against the Tide

September 21, 2026 Ben 0

A new biography of Victor Surge. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.

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Economics

Joseph Grosso – AI Bubble Economics: The Coming Crash and The Day After

September 21, 2026 Ben 0

AI companies would have to achieve unprecedented profits to justify the financial investments they have received: the more likely scenario is that this bubble will burst sooner or later. Joseph Grosso is a librarian and writer […]

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Energy

The Kyiv Independent – Trump tells Zelensky to stop striking Russian diesel infrastructure

September 15, 2026 Ben 0

There are deep contradictions at play in the Ukraine proxy war. Read the article HERE.

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National Politics

Olly Haynes – How Le Pen’s RN became a standard party of French big business

September 15, 2026 Ben 0

Rassemblement National made a brief ‘social turn’ at the end of the last decade, but with the Presidency now in sight Le Pen’s party has returned to its origins as a political force which aims […]

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EU politics

Deniz Torcu – How the far-right wins support among some ethnic minorities and migrants

September 15, 2026 Ben 0

The far-right seeks to find identity divisions between different groups of ethnic minorities and migrants, setting them against one another. Deniz Torcu is Adjunct Professor of Globalization, Business and Media at IE University, Madrid. Cross-posted […]

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National Politics

Gábor Scheiring – The Rise of Germany’s Far Right Reflects a Systemic Crisis

September 15, 2026 Ben 0

‘Pundits have widely explained the rise of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland in terms of cultural backlash or the eastern German psyche. Yet its rise is no passing disturbance but a symptom of a much […]

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John Aitken – Iran’s threat to cut undersea cables in Strait of Hormuz poses a serious threat to Gulf states

September 15, 2026 Ben 0

Undersea cables are indispensable to the emerging AI economies of the Gulf states, making them a major point of vulnerability that Iran could exploit if it chooses to move further up the escalation ladder. John […]

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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

June 11, 2026 0

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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