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Chris Hedges – Organised Oblivion

November 20, 2024 Ben Wray 0

The Armenian genocide is a reminder that the genocidaires come for everything, including our memory. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served […]

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Juan Cole – Does Britain Owe Reparations to the Palestinians for Engineering The Loss of Their Country?

October 28, 2024 Ben Wray 0

The role of the UK as the colonial power in historic Palestine up to 1948 is often overlooked. Juan Cole, a TomDispatch regular, is the Richard P. Mitchell collegiate professor of history at the University of Michigan. […]

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Juan Cole – The Path to Nasrallah’s Assassination and What Lies Ahead

September 30, 2024 Ben Wray 0

A short history of Hezbollah and why it might have to become a guerrilla organisation again. Juan Cole teaches Middle Eastern and South Asian history at the University of Michigan. His newest book, “Muhammad: Prophet […]

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Bill McKibben – To Avoid Utter Ruin, We Must Turn Off the Fossil Fuel Volcano

September 23, 2024 Ben Wray 0

There has been plenty of big shifts to the climate on planet Earth before, but not since humans have been here and never as fast as this. Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at […]

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Branko Milanović – The third framing

September 9, 2024 Ben Wray 0

The Washington Consensus is dead, and with nothing on the way to replace it the law of the jungle may return. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest  book is […]

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Jacques R. Pauwels – Paris: A radical history

September 4, 2024 Ben Wray 0

The Paris Olympics was a celebration of the bourgeoisie’s victory in the city, overcoming the revolts of the masses, at least for now. Jacques R. Pauwels is the author of The Great Class War: 1914-1918 and Myths of Modern […]

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Thomas Palley – Ukraine’s Hiroshima moment is drawing closer

August 22, 2024 Ben Wray 0

What if Russia nuked Ukraine using the same logic as when the United States nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Thomas Palley is an American economist who has served as the chief economist for the United States-China […]

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Mathias Bernard – Legislative elections in France: ‘Emmanuel Macron has made National Rally the main force of opposition to his policies’

July 3, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Macron’s woeful centrist governance has been instrumental to the rise of the far-right. Mathias Bernard is a historian of the Fifth Republic at the Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA). Cross-posted from The Conversation How do you […]

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Jamie Martin, Oscar Sanchez-Sibony – Market Ideologies

June 20, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Interesting conversation between two experts on the history of global economic governance. In ‘Phenomenal World’. Read the article HERE.

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From Marx on inequality to Smith on slavery: an interview with Branko Milanovic

June 18, 2024 Ben Wray 1

Dan Nixon interviews Branko Milanovic about his latest book, Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War, covering everything from Adam Smith’s surprising views about slavery to misconceptions about […]

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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

July 2, 2025 0

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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