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.
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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.
Geopolitics
Samuel Mcilhagga, John Baptiste-Oduor – Why Donald Trump Has Turned on Europe
‘For decades, European leaders fostered a willing dependence on the United States that has made the continent acutely vulnerable to the superpower’s whims. Donald Trump has sensed this weakness and is using it to advance […]
Geopolitics
David Hearst – Trump is abandoning Europe. Europe should abandon its appeasement of Israel.
Trump and Netanyahu’s ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza risks another refugee crisis on Europe’s doorstep, but European leaders don’t appear to be awake to the threat. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East […]
Geopolitics
Marco Carnelos – Sorry Trump, Palestinians aren’t going to fall for ‘Make Gaza Great Again’
Trump’s plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza has more holes in it than Swiss cheese. Marco Carnelos is a former Italian diplomat. He has been assigned to Somalia, Australia and the United Nations. He served in […]
Geopolitics
Cédric Durand – Fragile Leviathan?
On Trump and big tech. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Marco Carnelos – Why Trump should break with Biden’s containment strategy toward China
The US cannot seem to envisage a world which doesn’t include American global hegemony. Marco Carnelos is a former Italian diplomat. He has been assigned to Somalia, Australia and the United Nations. He served in […]
Economics
Branko Milanović – How the mainstream abandoned universal economic principles
As neoliberal principles are abandoned, so is any conception of a set of global economic rules which serves everyone. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest book is “Capitalism, Alone: […]