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Prabir Purkayastha – Oppenheimer Paradox: Power of Science and the Weakness of Scientists

August 9, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Oppenheimer’s rise and fall shows how the scientists who were hailed for their role in the Manhatten Project were ultimately subordinates to the US’ military industrial complex Prabir Purkayastha is the founding editor of Newsclick. […]

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Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea, by Darrin M. McMahon

July 10, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Book review by Branko Milanović, cross-posted from his blog. The ideological history of the idea of equality (“Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea”) is an ambitious, erudite and well-written book by Darrin M. McMahon. […]

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Ronan Burtenshaw: How the NHS was won

July 5, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Interesting piece on the struggle which was required to establish the UK’s National Health Service, on its 75th anniversary. Read the article HERE.

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Jeffrey Sommers: Russia, the Wagner Insurrection and the Perils of Overwrought Punditry

June 28, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Comparisons are being drawn between Russia’s internal conflict in WW1 and the present situation – the crisis was far more severe then than now Jeffrey Sommers is Professor of Political Economy & Public Policy in […]

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John P. Ruehl – Conflict, Migration, and Demography in Russia and Its Border Regions

June 5, 2023 Ben Wray 0

For centuries, Russian authorities have modified their approach to managing the country’s large, diverse population, held together by an ethnic Russian core. The war in Ukraine has again altered the Kremlin’s strategy of managing its […]

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Gig Economy Project – Benedikt Hopmann: Germany’s restrictions on the right to strike have their roots in the Nazi-era

April 28, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Benedikt Hopmann is the lawyer for three Gorillas app-based grocery delivery workers in Berlin, who were fired in 2021 after participating in a wildcat strike. On Tuesday [25 April], the workers challenged their dismissal on […]

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EU politics

Chris Bambery: Sleepwalking to war in 2023

March 29, 2023 Ben Wray 0

As the US builds up its military prowess in the South China Sea, it wouldn’t take much for a ‘Sarajevo’ moment to occur Chris Bambery is a Writer, broadcaster, journalist and author of A People’s […]

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Mathias Bernard – French governments’ long record of bypassing parliament: a brief history of article 49.3

March 27, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Many French presidents have used article 49.3 to force through reforms, only to have to backdown later as their legitimacy is undermined and protests grow Mathias Bernard is a historian at the Clermont Auvergne university […]

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Lily Hamourtziadou: Iraq 20 years on: death came from the skies on March 19 2003 – and the killing continues to this day

March 20, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The bombs began to rain down on Iraqis in the “shock and awe” campaign – and the killing never stopped Lily Hamourtziadou is a senior lecturer in Security Studies, Birmingham City University. Cross-posted from The […]

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Luke Stobart: Catalonia’s Independence Struggle Has Deep Roots

February 22, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Review of A People’s History of Catalonia by Michael Eaude (Pluto Press, 2022). Read the article HERE.

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Complicit – Britain’s role in Israel’s genocide by Peter Oborne

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Book Review by Martin Shaw Cross.posted from Declassified UK As British people have turned against Israel’s destruction of Gaza, leading figures in its present and former governing parties still deny that Israel has committed even […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

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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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