7 August 2025
EU politics
New Economics Foundation: Can we do better than Uber?
Last month, Transport for London announced it was withdrawing ride-hailing firm Uber’s license to operate in the capital. Despite complaints over passenger safety and poor treatment of drivers, many Londoners came to Uber’s defence, valuing […]
Geopolitics
Naomi Klein: Jews Must Raise Voices for Palestine, Oppose “False Idol of Zionism”
2 May 2024 I’ve been thinking about Moses, and his rage when he came down from the mount to find the Israelites worshipping a golden calf. The ecofeminist in me was always uneasy about this […]
Economics
Richard D. Wolff, Glenn Diesen – The Economics of Collapsing Empires – Sanctions and Wars
24 June 2025 Professor Richard Wolff outlines how a collapsing empire can be identified. The predictable path ahead is economic decline, denial, scapegoating, manipulating a disenfranchised public, and senseless foreign wars that will only intensify […]
I listened to your podcast which was supposed to be a history, but Dr. Mearsheimer’s summary was in fact completely ahistorical. The professor told a tendentious story which starts from Netanyahu’s and Smotrich’s racist, genocidal regime and then explains that this was always what Zionism was and is. In fact, the government of Israel today is a corruption of Zionism. The more interesting question is how did Zionism, which is simply the movement for the national liberation of the Jewish people, the same desire shared today by the Palestinians the Kurds, and numerous other people who live under governments where their autonomy is denied, become so corrupted.
This question which needs more analysis is intertwined with Dr. Mearsheimer’s simplistic answer that US support of Israel is all because of the Israel Lobby. This is inverted logic. Israel is supported simply because it does the dirty work of the US empire. Understanding the history behind events is the only way to make sense of them. Unfortunately, this podcast served up an overly simplistic narrative which did nothing to help us gain that better understanding.