Economics
Marcus Loh – Civilizational multipolarity in a post-Pax Americana world
New order sees states derive legitimacy from deep structures of language, religion and institutional memory rather than universal norms Read Article HERE
Globalisation
Economics
Richard Wolff, Michael Hudson, Nima Alkhorshid – Two Dolls, One Empire
Two Dolls, One Empire explores the unraveling logic of late-stage U.S. empire through the lens of tariffs, supply chains, and political theatre. With sharp commentary from Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff, the piece dissects how […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – Geoeconomics, nationalism and trade
Neoclassical economics may be on the way out in the mainstream, to be replaced with geoeconomics: winning the battle for political and economic power by all means necessary. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the […]
EU politics
Corporate Europe Observatory – Will the EU lower regulatory standards to appease Trump?
The risk is that Brussels uses the excuse of a deal with the United States to prevent a tariff war to slip in deregulation by the back door. Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) is a research […]
Finance
Paolo Gerbaudo – Global BYD
‘Amid the intensifying retreat of American hegemony, an alternative geo-economic and geopolitical arrangement is coming into view: a battery-powered globalization with Chinese characteristics. Chinese EV manufacturer has recently raced ahead of Tesla in global EV […]
Deregulation
Aurelien – The End?
There must be some way out of here … surely? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack A scene from Samuel Beckett’s Endgame The original idea behind these essays when I started them three years ago, was that […]
Finance
Guy Standing – The Left Must Embrace the Precariat
The right has done a better job than the left in understanding how the working class is internally divided and appealing to one section of it. Guy Standing is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS […]
Climate Crisis
Jeffrey Sachs, Yanis Varoufakis – The Six Global Crises Confronting Humanity
22 April 2025 Sachs begins at round 6:30
Economics
Alastair Crooke: Trump axes a stricken world order – but there’s opportunity amidst the turmoil
Trump’s actions were neither ‘spur of the moment’, nor whimsical. The ‘tariff solution’ had been pre-prepared by his team over years Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts […]
Finance
Thomas Fazi – War by other means: Trump’s tariffs and the empire’s final gamble
‘Trump’s tariff policy represents a desperate bid to preserve US economic, military and geopolitical dominance at any cost — using economic coercion against nearly every country on the planet.’ On Thomas Fazi’s Substack. Read the […]