Geopolitics
Lorna Finlayson – Grown-Up Politics
The genocide has unmasked Western liberals. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
Liberalism
Geopolitics
Ben Wray – Liberalism Is Surrendering to the Hard-Right Challenge
‘As Donald Trump tramples over the norms of the postwar liberal order, centrist political leaders are only too keen to accommodate him. Global liberalism is collapsing, while the battle over what replaces it is just […]
EU politics
Jeffrey Sommers – JD Vance Against Democracy: Munich Security Conference, or Munich Beer Hall?
Both the liberals and the far-right treat democracy instrumentally, but the more worrying question is whether the people actually care about democracy anymore. Jeffrey Sommers is Professor of Political Economy & Public Policy in the Department of African &African […]
Corruption
Richard D. Wolff, Michael Hudson – The Irony of Calling the Opponents of Nazism Nazis
Symptoms of decline in liberal capitalist democracy showing from South Korea to Germany. Cross-posted from Michael Hudson’s blog NIMA: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, December 5th, and our friends, Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff are […]
EU politics
Coll McCail – Liberalism’s collapse: from Washington to Edinburgh
Angela Merkel’s has provoked a lot of pining amongst liberals for the good ol’ days, but they are not coming back. Coll McCail is an activist and writer based in Glasgow. He is a member […]
EU politics
Ingar Solty: In Germany, Liberals Lead the Authoritarian Turn
‘The rise of the anti-immigrant Alternative für Deutschland has prompted a wave of troubled reactions in Germany. But authoritarianism isn’t just a far-right creation, and today, liberals are leading the charge against basic democratic freedoms.’ […]
EU politics
Francesca De Benedetti – In Europe, the Liberal Centre is Going Extinct
‘Europe’s centrists often claim to defend liberal values against populist threats. Yet ahead of June’s EU elections, liberals have adopted far-right talking points on everything from the climate to migration — and it’s not saving […]
Fake News
Chris Hedges, Jeff Gerth: The failure of the US press in the Trump-Russia saga
Walter Lippmann in his 1920 book Liberty and the News warned that when journalists “arrogate to themselves the right to determine by their own consciences what shall be reported and for what purpose, democracy is […]