Geopolitics
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Peter Oborne – Illegal wars, racism and genocide: USA World Cup 2026 should be boycotted
Trump’s US is embroiled in war crimes on multiple fronts. It does not deserve to host football’s biggest tournament Peter Oborne’s new book, Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza, was recently published by […]
Economics
Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen
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 […]
Geopolitics
Jonathan Cook – How Israel planned the Gaza genocide decades ago
In October 2023, Israel found an excuse to breathe new life into an old story of slaughter and expulsion. The chief differences this time have been of scale and duration Jonathan Cook is the author […]
Geopolitics
de Volkskraant: What the wounds are telling us
Key findings Fifteen international doctors told de Volkskrant that during their work in hospitals in Gaza, they saw children aged 15 years and younger with gunshot wounds to the head or chest. According to the […]
Geopolitics
Alastair Crooke – Iran Takes Its Chances With War
This phase of the Iranian conflict likely will only end when the West falls off the approaching economic cliff Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted […]
Geopolitics
Jonathan Cook – Like Midas, our rulers want to monetise everything they touch – and kill it
War and profit are intimately tied together. The billionaires cannot secure their profits without war, or the threat of it – whether against workers at home or against other nations abroad Jonathan Cook is the […]
Geopolitics
Aurelien – People Are Strange…Especially in politics.
The problem with any scheme of normative thinking is that it is essentially proof against the disruptive effects of all learning and all experience. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: The […]
Geopolitics
Geopolitics