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Anatol Lieven – Britain’s half-baked national security strategy

September 22, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Britain’s new strategy for Defence isn’t really a strategy of all, and it will do nothing to ween the country off it’s dependence on the United States. Anatol Lieven is Director of the Eurasia Program […]

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German Rearmament Is a Terrible Idea – Interview w/ Ole Nymoen

July 29, 2025 Ben Wray 0

‘In Germany, podcaster Ole Nymoen has become public enemy number one for supporters of the government’s rearmament campaign. He spoke to Jacobin about his new book against militarization and on the need for a renewed peace movement.’ […]

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Waya Quiviger – Spain won’t be the only country to not meet NATO’s 5% target

July 29, 2025 Ben Wray 0

The enormous increase in defence spending agreed by NATO is likely to end up being more of a wish to satisfy Trump than a reality. Waya Quiviger is Professor of Practice of Gobal Governance and […]

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Ian Davis – NATO’s Contribution to the Climate Crisis Cannot Be Ignored

July 28, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Militarism is a disaster for the planet in every way imaginable. Dr. Ian Davis is an independent human security and arms control consultant, writer, activist, and founding director of NATO Watch (www.natowatch.org). Cross-posted from Common […]

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Nick Smith – Rearming Europe

July 15, 2025 Ben Wray 0

An overview of why Europe’s establishment has embraced re-militarisation. In ‘Phenomenal World’. Read the article HERE.

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Politico – Italy’s grand plan to meet NATO target: A €13.5B bridge to Sicily

June 30, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Europe is a laughing stock. Read the article HERE.

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Politico – NATO allies agree to 5 percent defense spending goal

June 24, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Amazingly, only Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has seen sense and got an opt-out to NATO’s new demand on countries to spend 5% of their GDP on defence. All the rest are now lashed to […]

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Molly O’Neal – German leaders have miscalculated popular will for war spending

April 1, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Polling suggests the German public has not been won over to the establishment’s war fever. Molly O’Neal is a university lecturer and research scholar, with a long diplomatic career focused on Central Europe, Russia and […]

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Pascal Lottaz – Europe’s Walk of The Dammed: War Hysteria Today, War Euphoria Tomorrow

March 24, 2025 Ben Wray 0

‘The continent is racing in Seven-Mile-Boots toward its next calamity. The Trump-Abandonment shock is stoking a war fever not seen in a century.’ In Pascal Lottaz’ Substack. Read the article HERE.

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Binoy Kampmark – Militarising Europe: The EU Defence Spending Bug

March 18, 2025 Ben Wray 0

The merchants of death are on the march in Brussels, and have little time for democratic norms. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne. Email: bkampmark@gmail.com Cross-posted from […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

August 10, 2025 0

Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

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Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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