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Jeffrey D. Sachs, Sybil Fares – On its 250th birthday, America must leave behind the illusion of primacy

July 7, 2026 Ben 0

The Iran war showed that the US cannot impose its will on the whole world – it is time to accept multipolarity. Jeffrey D. Sachs is University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable […]

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Michael Roberts – 250 years: US from independence to empire: Part 3: From hegemony to decline

July 7, 2026 Ben 0

Final part of a series on America’s 250th anniversary looks at the country’s relative decline, which began in the 1970s and has become more obvious in recent years. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 […]

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Michael Roberts – 250 YEARS: The United States – from independence to empire (part two)

July 6, 2026 Ben 0

The rise of ‘Pax Americana’. Read part 1 of this series, on the American revolution, here. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog It […]

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Norman Solomon – My Conversation With Karl Marx About Donald Trump

July 6, 2026 Ben 0

What Marx thought about the role of the individual in history. Norman Solomon is the national director of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. The paperback edition of his latest book, War […]

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Michael Roberts – 250 years: The United States from independence to empire: Part 1: Revolution

July 5, 2026 Ben 0

The American revolution mobilised the popular classes against British rule, but only so that the elites could establish an independent capitalist state that would later rule the world. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the […]

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Kevin Guillas-Cavan – Reflecting on Socialism Through the Lens of the Paris Commune

June 1, 2026 Ben 0

The Paris Commune took place 155 years ago and only lasted 72 days but it still has valuable lessons to offer anyone thinking of making a revolution happen today. Kevin Guillas-Cavan is the France Research Fellow […]

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Peter Oborne – Had Bush and Blair been punished for Iraq war crimes, Iran might have been spared

April 12, 2026 Ben 0

Trump is a mixture of rupture and continuity with the past. He can only get away with such flagrant breaches of international law because he stands on the shoulders of the US Presidents before him. […]

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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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Chris Bambery – The US has scuppered multiple opportunities to do a deal with Iran

April 6, 2026 Ben 0

Important context to understand the long history of US diplomatic missed opportunities which helped bring us to this disastrous point. Chris Bambery is an author, political activist and commentator. His books include A People’s History of Scotland and The […]

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Chris Hedges – Making the Film ‘Palestine 36’ (w/ director Annemarie Jacir)

March 31, 2026 Ben 0

A very important film about Palestinian history has just come out. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle […]

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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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