National Politics
Thomas Fazi – Angela Merkel: mother of German decline
Sober analysis of Angela Merkel’s Memoir. In Unherd. Read the article HERE.
Neo-Liberalism in the EU
EU politics
Coll McCail – Liberalism’s collapse: from Washington to Edinburgh
Angela Merkel’s has provoked a lot of pining amongst liberals for the good ol’ days, but they are not coming back. Coll McCail is an activist and writer based in Glasgow. He is a member […]
Corruption
BRAVE NEW EUROPE Fundraiser for 2025
In our lifetime in the West we have never been confronted with such a massive onslaught on truth by corporate and state media as the authoritarian liberal political class enters its current crisis. At the […]
Economics
Mark Curtis: UK sees privatisation ‘opportunities’ in Ukraine war
British aid is being used to open up Ukraine’s wrecked economy to foreign investors and enhance trade with the UK. Read HERE
Climate Crisis
Nina-Miholjcic Ivkovic – The EU Cynically Pushes Lithium Mining in Serbia
‘The European Union loves boasting about its green agenda. But its plans rely on electric vehicles — and a push for lithium mining in Serbia, which would outsource the environmental costs of the green transition […]
Geopolitics
France 24: What do we know about the North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia?
Social media users have been circulating several videos and photos that they say show North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia in the Russian region of Kursk. Western and South Korean intelligence services started to report […]
Economics
Michael Hudson, Richard D. Wolff, Nima Alkhorshid – A Concept of a Plan … for the National Interest
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, November 14th, and Michael and Richard are here with us to talk about what’s going on in the United States. Let’s start with Richard. Here is a video […]
Austerity
Wolfgang Streeck – Capitalism: Home Alone
Excerpt from Wolfgang Streeck’s book that appears this week, “Taking back Control? States and State Systems after Globalism”, London and New York: Verso, 2024, pp. 108-21 ISBN-13: 978-18397767296 Wolfgang Streeck is Emeritus Director and Senior […]
Austerity
Lee Jones – Is Trump 2 the End of ‘Neoliberal Order Breakdown Syndrome’?
Why the liberal expert class may be changing its tune in the wake of Trump’s re-election Lee Jones is Reader in International Politics at Queen Mary University of London. He is also one of the […]
Finance
Frédéric Fréry – Volkswagen: the end of a German industrial myth?
Volkswagen is Germany’s largest private-sector employer, but it now faces a mammoth crisis which was partly self-inflicted. Frédéric Fréry is professor of Strategy at CentraleSupélec, ESCP Business School. Cross-posted from The Conversation In late October 2024, […]