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Dragan Plavšić – Serbia’s student movement wins decisive election victory: What happens next?
The Serbian student movement has gone from protest to power within just two years. In Government, it will face significant internal and external pressures that will require the movement to keep organising and mobilising. Dragan […]
National Politics
Guilherme Casarões – Lula has pulled off a miracle in Brazil: Now comes the really hard part
Lula’s presidential election victory was against the odds, but he still faces major challenges in power. Guilherme Casarões is Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies at Florida International University. Cross-posted from The Conversation Three weeks ago, […]
National Politics
Miguel Urbán Crespo – When no one expected it…the sun has come out
On Spain’s housing movement and election. In ‘International Viewpoint’. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Corruption
Reuters: Serbia’s Vucic concedes defeat to student led movement in parliamentary election
Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic conceded defeat to the student-led protest movement in parliamentary elections on Sunday. “We still do not have final results, on the basis of a sample … it is clear that we have […]
Geopolitics
Corruption
Alastair Crooke: Yet another financialised peace initiative from the Witkoff-Kushner stable
Instead of prioritizing stakeholder profit, the Witkoff-Europe combo should address Eurasian security architecture and NATO-Russia-China frontiers to gain traction in Moscow. Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts […]
Austerity
Steve Keen – French Students Are Revolting—and so they should be!
The Empirical Case Against the Euro Steve Keen is an Australian economist and author. A post-Keynesian, he criticizes neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific and empirically unsupported. Cross-posted from Steve Keen’s Building a New Economics There […]
EU politics
Hüseyin Dogru – In the Name of Democracy: The EU’s War on the Enemy Within
Built to fight foreign interference, Europe’s security apparatus is now turning on its own people. Muslims and critics of Israel are first in line. Hüseyin Doğru is a German journalist and documentary filmmaker based in […]