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Michael Hudson, Alexander Mercouris, Glenn Diesen – US Economic Decline and Rise of Greater Eurasia
30 March 2024 A look at geopolitical economics
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Galina Cornelisse – How Europe Dodges the International Arms Control Regime
The Netherlands is not the only European state that blatantly ignores its procedural obligations under the AT. Countries such as Denmark and the UK have adopted a similar approach. Galina Cornelisse is a professor of […]
EU politics
Eurostat: 4.3 million non-EU citizens under temporary protection in the EU
On 31 January 2024, 4.3 million non-EU citizens, who fled Ukraine as a consequence of the Russian invasion on 24 February 2022, had temporary protection status in the EU. Read HERE Photo: Kamil Czaiński/Creative Commons
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T.J. Coles – The New Atheism at 20: How an Intellectual Movement Exploited Rationalism to Promote War
The New Atheists have sought to identify religious zealotry as the cause of Arab anger, disguising the obvious cause: western foreign policy. T. J. Coles is director of the Plymouth Institute for Peace Research and the […]
Geopolitics
Stephen Hall – In Putin’s Russia, the death of Navalny has left the opposition demoralised but not defeated
Who dares pick up Navalny’s standard in the campaign against Russia’s autocratic leader? Stephen Hall is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, University of Bath Cross-posted from The Conversation Photo: Mitya Aleshkovskiy/Creative Commons […]
Geopolitics
Interview with Charles A. Kupchan – ‘It is time for Ukraine to switch from offense to defense and to work at the negotiating table’
Is it time for Ukraine to switch from offense to defense and to focus on protecting and rebuilding what it has and then to work at the negotiating table to get back the rest of […]
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Jaume Claret, Ricard Rosich Argelich – Fascist propaganda on the big screen: the history of the NO-DO in Francoist Spain
Francoist propaganda centred on an obligatory screening of a 10-minute newsreel before every film, called NO-DO. Jaume Claret is a history professor at the Open University of Catalonia. Ricard Rosich Argelich is a history professor […]
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Michael von der Schulenburg – Nur Friedensverhandlungen können die Ukraine noch retten
Der Ukrainekrieg darf nicht in ein drittes Jahr gehen Michael von der Schulenburg, ehemaliger UN Assistant Secretary General, war über 34 Jahre lang für die Vereinten Nationen und kurz für die OSZE in vielen Ländern […]
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Branko Milanović – Before the police arrives: Bookstores on Saturdays
We forget how integral bookshops were in our daily life. Orwell wrote a great piece about secondhand bookstores HERE Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest book is The Visions […]
Geopolitics
Consortium News: What Has the Putin Interview Achieved?
Vladimir Putin’s challenge was to tell Americans through Tucker Carlson a complicated and unfamiliar narrative of how dearly Ukrainians and Russians are paying for Putin’s initial naïve trust in the West Read HERE