Geopolitics
Euronews – Israel signs €3 billion arms export deal with Greece, defence ministry says
Greece is becoming Israeli property. Read the article HERE.
Articles by Ben
National Politics
Marlon Ettinger – France Needs a President Who Isn’t for the Bosses
‘France’s first presidential debate on Thursday was hosted by employers’ group Medef. Entrepreneurs laughed when left-wing candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon called for wage raises, but he was deadly serious.’ In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Trita Parsi – New US strikes on Iran may restart a war that Trump wanted to freeze
Trump wants to avoid a major flare-up before the mid-terms, but Iran may calculate that now is the time hit back hard. Trita Parsi is the co-founder and Executive Vice president of the Quincy Institute […]
Geopolitics
Branko Marcetic – Why are Western hawks pushing Ukraine to draft women?
Ukraine is already facing down the barrel of demographic doom – drafting childless women into the Ukrainian army would only make it worse. Branko Marcetic is a staff writer with Jacobin magazine and the author […]
EU politics
Raja Natour – Why EU-Israel data-sharing deal must be quashed
Scandalous that a data sharing agreement between the EU and Israel is even a topic for discussion in Brussels – will these people ever learn? Raja Natour is a seasoned journalist and Middle East specialist […]
Geopolitics
Moazzam Begg – Five years after the fall of Kabul, ‘war on terror’ ghosts have come home
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 […]
Geopolitics
BBC – China hits out at ‘illegal’ new US sanctions on Iran and trading partners
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.
Geopolitics
After 6 months of war, why aren’t oil prices even higher? Interview w/ Rory Johnston
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 […]
Environment
Ibrahim Al-Marashi – What coffee and qat tell us about Yemen’s past and present
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 […]
Corruption
Gerhard Klaas – Three months of mass protests in Albania
The media has stopped paying attention but the protests against Jared Kushner’s luxury resort continue. In ‘International Viewpoint’. Read the article HERE.