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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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Nathalie Louisgrand – How Paris’ working-class dining experience is reshaping restaurant economics in France

February 16, 2026 Ben 0

A 19th century Parisian affordable dining tradition is having a renaissance. Nathalie Louisgrand is an associate professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM). Her research focuses on French gastronomy and its transmission. Cross-posted from The […]

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Michael Parenti (1933-2026) – 1918 

January 27, 2026 Ben 0

The American marxist intellectual Michael Parenti died last week. This is thought to be his last essay. It was first published on U.S. Memorial Day, May 28, 2018. Cross-posted from ScheerPost Looking back at the […]

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Juan Cole – Top 5 Mistakes Bush made in Iraq that Trump is making in Venezuela

January 5, 2026 Ben 0

Of all these errors, no day-after planning sticks out as the most important point of comparison between Iraq and Venezuela. Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell collegiate professor of history at the University of […]

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Adriana Marin – How US intervention in Venezuela mirrors its actions in Panama in 1989

January 5, 2026 Ben 0

US actions in Venezuela have been framed as a break with the so-called rules based international order, but similar actions in Panama just as the Cold War was ending shows that there is significant continuity […]

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Workers must challenge the narrative of tech progress – interview w/ Jason Resnikoff

December 2, 2025 Ben 0

Workers shouldn’t accept the imposition of AI in the workplace as natural or inevitable. Interview by Marta Checa, former co-editor of Equal Times and a multi-media journalist. Cross-posted from Equal Times Jason Resnikoff, a US […]

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Vijay Prashad – Communism Defeated Fascism Eighty Years Ago and Will Defeat it Again

December 1, 2025 Ben 0

The truth, concealed in the West today, is that fascism was largely defeated in the Second World War by Russian and Chinese workers and peasants. Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor and journalist. He is […]

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Reindustrialise Britain – A Strategy for Wealth Creation by Costas Lapavitsas, Larry Elliot, Doug Nicholls

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Book Review by Mathew D. Rose With the exception of the Epstein Class and the Professional and Managerial Caste in Britain there is now a broad consensus that neo-liberalism has failed the nation. It has […]

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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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