15 May 2025
Climate Crisis
Tim Jackson: Prosperity without Growth
Capitalism is broken. The relentless pursuit of more has delivered climate catastrophe, social inequality and financial instability – and left us ill-prepared for life in a global pandemic. Tim Jackson’s passionate and provocative book dares […]
Geopolitics
Francesca Albanese, The Thinking Muslim – Gaza: Is International Law a Waste of Time?
15 November 2024 Should we, people who remain married to justice, accept that international law, if it ever did work, is today defunct? In a broader sense, when we pursue its application are we in […]
Climate Crisis
Steve Keen – The crumbling world of lobotomized economists
How mainstream economists keep killing the economy? Why MMT makes sense? What is the first thing he would do right now, if he was in charge of economic policies? Why is public debt not the […]
I would have liked to ask Gideon Levy how he would explain the support for Israel given by the UK, France, and, especially, Germany. To normal minds their behaviour is utterly inexplicable and morally repugnant. However, over the years it has become apparent that our rulers/elites follow a totally different rarified morality to ordinary people – I have to think only of Henry Kissinger as an example.