Geopolitics
AA – Trump says US gave Hamas ‘approval’ for policing ‘for a period of time’
Remember, Israel’s ‘war’ on Gaza was supposed to be about destroying Hamas. Read the article HERE.
Donald Trump
Geopolitics
Ismail Patel – Why Trump’s ‘peace plan’ is a disaster for the Palestinians
Trump’s plan for Gaza is 21st century colonialism. Ismail Patel is the author of “The Muslim Problem: From the British Empire to Islamophobia”. He is also Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Leeds and […]
Geopolitics
EuroNews – EU defends sovereign right to regulate tech against Trump’s latest tariff threat
After capitulating to Trump, did the European Commission really thing it would end there. The trade deal was agreed a month ago and The Donald is already back for more. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Patrick Lawrence: That Big, Beautiful Summit in Alaska
By listening to Putin and embracing reality, Trump has committed a cardinal sin which the foreign policy establishment may never forgive him for. Patrick Lawrence, a correspondent abroad for many years, chiefly for the International Herald […]
Geopolitics
James W. Carden – The Alaska Summit: A Symposium
A wide variety of short contributions from geopolitical experts on the Trump-Putin Summit. In James W. Carden’s Substack. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Europe Shows Again That It Lacks a Backbone to Stand Up to Trump – Interview w/ C.J. Polychroniou
Thoughts on recent political developments in Europe. C.J. Polychroniou is a political economist/political scientist who has taught and worked in numerous universities and research centers in Europe and the United States. His latest books are […]
Geopolitics
Lily Lynch – Convergence?
Is Trump moving back towards the foreign policy establishment in Washington and Brussels? In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
Finance
Peter Bloom – Trump’s Tariffs: Crony Capitalism and the New Economy of Obedience
Are Trump’s tariffs another example of disaster capitalism: manufacturing a crisis so that the super-rich can exploit it? Peter Bloom is a Professor at the University of Essex in the UK. His books include “Authoritarian […]
Corruption
Aziz Rana – Constitutional Collapse
An insightful analysis about what is continuity and what is change in how Trump is exerting presidential power. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Anders Stephanson – American destiny?
Is Trump a destinarian, determined to expand the frontiers of the United States, or merely an opportunist looking to exercise the ‘art of the deal’? In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.