EU politics
Eldar Mamedov: Is the EU already trying to sabotage new Ukraine peace plan?
The goal appears not to be a better peace, but to hollow out the American proposal until it becomes unacceptable to Moscow Read Article HERE
EU politics
EU politics
Ian Proud – Russia wants peace but doesn’t need peace, Ukraine needs peace but doesn’t want peace
I go through Trump’s 28 point plan line by line and talk about the need for negotiations between Russia and Ukraine to start Ian Proud was a member of His Britannic Majesty’s Diplomatic Service from […]
Economics
Economics
Ann Pettifor: Central Banks and Government Budgets – As If Democracy Matters
In Britain Tax austerity threatens to follow monetary and fiscal austerity Read the Article HERE With acknowledgement to Bonil
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck: China, the big threat?
China and its economic successes are on everyone’s lips. Under the previous government (and under pressure from the US), Germany already designated China a ‘systemic rival,’ whatever that may mean in concrete terms. In any […]
Corruption
Aurelien: Living Backwards – We’ve been here before. Unfortunately.
In the end Liberalism is simply the lipstick put on the feudal pig. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright […]
EU politics
John Mearsheimer – Europe’s Bleak Future
The catastrophe of the Ukraine war and a long-term shift in American interests make a stabler, more prosperous Europe unlikely. John J. Mearsheimer is a professor of political science at the University of Chicago and […]
Geopolitics
Craig Murray -The Beat of the War Drums
As the corrupt authoritarian political class is losing its grip on power it grasps for the last straw: war. Who wants to die to keep Keir Starmer and Labour in office? Craig Murray is a […]
EU politics
Jeffrey Sommers, Cosmin Marian – Why Latvia has grown tired of ‘European values’
The disappointments of neoliberalism post-Latvian independence has led to ‘European values’ falling out of favour. Cosmin Marian is Chair and Professor of the Department of Political Science at Romania’s Babeș-Bolyai University. He works on comparative […]
Austerity
José Álvarez Díaz – When it comes to forest fires, austerity kills
2025 is the first year that a million hectares were burnt in forest fires across Europe, but as the scale of the problem grows the scale of public resources to tackle it does not. José […]