What is happening now is not limited to the United States possibly experiencing its third defeat. It might be the collapse of a huge empire itself. Emmanuel Todd is a French historian, anthropologist, demographer, sociologist [...]
The real issue now for the world economy is the inevitable global shortages of essential commodities, not just oil, but oil products like air fuel and a whole range of raw materials needed to sustain [...]
A vast cloying morass of injustice has visibly submerged the British legal systems in anything connected to Palestine. Craig Murray is a British former diplomat, political activist, human rights campaigner, blogger, and whistleblower Cross-posted from [...]
The US war on Iran is leading the world to a global depression. Professor Richard Wolff places the current crisis in the context of the capitalist system and the decline of US hegemonic power. The [...]
The genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in Lebanon exhausted the West’s moral legitimacy. Now Iran is slowly exhausting the West’s military primacy Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, [...]
Freedom is at times taken to be the ultimate goal of politics, but it is a corrosive idea that looks different from where you start. For a drug addict, the last thing you need is [...]
Throughout its long war on Iran, every tactic used by the United States has backfired. Professor Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi explains why Iran’s revolutionary spirit remains strong The United States, in its recent war on Iran, has [...]
By wilfully ignoring blatant US-Israeli acts of aggression, the EU is facilitating a global regime of impunity that contravenes its founding principles Marco Carnelos is a former Italian diplomat. He has been assigned to Somalia, [...]
Book Review by Branko Milanović Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian’s The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform is a book about how China transformed itself between the Great Leap Forward and the early [...]
