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Geopolitics

Juan Cole – Does Britain Owe Reparations to the Palestinians for Engineering The Loss of Their Country?

October 28, 2024 Ben 0

The role of the UK as the colonial power in historic Palestine up to 1948 is often overlooked. Juan Cole, a TomDispatch regular, is the Richard P. Mitchell collegiate professor of history at the University of Michigan. […]

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EU politics

Barah Mikaïl – Europe is not prepared for the looming Lebanese refugee crisis

October 28, 2024 Ben 0

European politicians who oppose refugees are often complicit in the causes of refugees. Lebanon is a case in point. Barah Mikaïl is Associate professor at IE University in Madrid. Cross-posted from The Conversation Since it […]

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Climate Crisis

World Meteorological Organisation – Greenhouse gas concentrations surge again to new record in 2023

October 28, 2024 Ben 0

Press release from WMO with the latest data on rising greenhouse gas emissions globally is stark: things are getting worse, fast. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible […]

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Climate Crisis

Veronica Gennari – Banlieues Climat: Fighting Eco-Fascism with Popular Ecology  

October 28, 2024 Ben 0

Putting social class and climate action together in Paris’ impoverished suburbs. Veronica Gennari is an Italian freelance journalist based in Paris. Cross-posted from Green European Journal On the morning of 12 October, a crowd gathered […]

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EU politics

Politico – US envoy to NATO questions EU’s ‘buy local’ strategy on weapons

October 23, 2024 Ben 0

Some EU countries haven’t got the message yet that the US military industrial complex expects bigger European Defence spending to mean bigger orders for American weapons. Read the article HERE.

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Peter Oborne, Lubna Masarwa – As Gaza burns, Israeli settlers make ‘real estate’ plans

October 23, 2024 Ben 0

Far-right plans for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza to be replaced by Israeli settlers are a real possibility. Peter Oborne won best commentary/blogging in both 2022 and 2017, and was also named freelancer of the […]

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Financial Institutions

Lara Merling – “Greenwashing” Structural Adjustment

October 23, 2024 Ben 0

The last thing the global south needs is more of the IMF, but with sovereign debt crises on the rise, the masters of ‘structural adjustment’ are difficult to escape. In Phenomenal World. Read the article […]

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Geopolitics

Hicham Safieddine – US plans for a post-Hezbollah Lebanon are trying to revive a failed strategy

October 23, 2024 Ben 0

The United States is manouvering for a Lebanon governed without Hezbollah, but those plans are coming up against the fact that the resistance group still has popular support. Hicham Safieddine is Canada Research Chair in […]

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Economics

Eric Tymoigne – How the Taxpayer Myth Gives Life to the Neoliberal Agenda

October 23, 2024 Ben 0

The idea that the government is using “taxpayers’ money” when it spends limits spending options and marginalises sections of the population. Eric Tymoigne is an associate professor of economics at Lewis & Clark College and a […]

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Kirsten Sehnbruch – Will Labour secure workers’ rights for the 21st century?

October 23, 2024 Ben 0

Labour’s Employment Rights Bill won’t resolve the inequalities that characterise Britain’s labour market. Kirsten Sehnbruch is a Distinguished Policy Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science. During […]

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