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Soumaya Ghannoushi – Trump has unleashed a new age of savagery

April 7, 2026 Ben 0

Persian civilisation is a cornerstone of human civilisation: what Trump wants to destroy is humanity itself. Soumaya Ghannoushi is a British Tunisian writer and expert in Middle East politics. Her journalistic work has appeared in […]

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Lilie Chouliaraki – The Weaponization of Victimhood

September 16, 2024 Ben 0

In our hyper-individualised society, victimhood has increasingly little to do with structural vulnerability. Lilie Chouliaraki is Chair in Media and Communications in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE. Chouliaraki’s latest book is Wronged: The Weaponization of […]

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Anton Jäger – Political Instincts?

March 20, 2024 Ben 0

As civic life continues its steady decline, politics is becoming ever-more volatile. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.

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Marco D’Eramo: Western Pravdas

September 18, 2023 Ben 0

There is a strong whiff of McCarthyism in The West over the Ukraine war. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.

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Ramzy Baroud – ‘Bread and Circuses’: Musk, Zuckerberg and the Art of Distraction

September 4, 2023 Ben 0

The use of entertainment as a population control mechanism. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of five books. His latest is “These Chains Will Be […]

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Binoy Kampmark – Looting the looters: Theft at the British Museum

August 28, 2023 Ben 0

The pilfering of the British Museum, which contains objects stolen from all over the world in the times of colonial plunder, is a curious tale. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He […]

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Prabir Purkayastha – Oppenheimer Paradox: Power of Science and the Weakness of Scientists

August 9, 2023 Ben 0

Oppenheimer’s rise and fall shows how the scientists who were hailed for their role in the Manhatten Project were ultimately subordinates to the US’ military industrial complex Prabir Purkayastha is the founding editor of Newsclick. […]

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Mark Steven: The Global Class War in Five Novels

June 5, 2023 Ben 0

Contemporary literature on class struggle is territorially grounded but internationally expansive. Mark Steven is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century Literature at the University of Exeter, UK. He is author of ‘Class War: A […]

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National Politics

David Jamieson: No, we don’t need to win the culture war

May 29, 2023 Ben 0

Every aspect of our personal lives is fleetingly the subject of intense political debate, while the big questions of our epoch are left to the powerful to resolve David Jamieson is editor of Conter, a […]

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Environment

Adriana Mayor: Alcarràs and As Bestas: Spain’s Renewable Energy Divides Play Out in Cinemas

March 15, 2023 Ben 0

The slogan Renovables sí, pero no así has become increasingly prominent in Spain in recent years as the reality of corporate renewable macro-projects kicks in. Cross-posted from the Green European Journal RURAL Spain, with its […]

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

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Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate by Dani Rodrik

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Book Review by Walden Bello Dani Rodrik has impeccable credentials as an economist. He is an expert in many areas, including trade and development, and is one of Harvard University’s leading lights. In recent years, […]

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