EU politics
Politico – Sculpting Europe in MAGA’s image
The media are waking up to the reality of the US’s new National Security Strategy for Europe. Read the article HERE.
Trump
Geopolitics
Marco D’Eramo – Empire’s Stakes
Trying to make sense of Trumpism. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
David Broder – The Trump–Putin Talks Blindsided European Leaders
‘This summer, European states hiked military spending and swallowed a poor trade deal in order to win favor with Donald Trump. Yet the US president’s negotiations with Vladimir Putin all but ignored their proposals.’ In […]
Geopolitics
Boris Kagarlitsky – From US hegemony to a ‘war of all against all’
A profound analysis of global imperialism with Trump at the helm, all the more remarkable because it was written in prison without internet access. Boris Kagarlitsky is a historian and sociologist who lives in Moscow. […]
Globalisation
Reuters – US court blocks most Trump tariffs, says president exceeded his authority
A major blow to Trump’s economic and foreign policy. If he can’t get this overturned on appeal he will have lost leverage to negotiate trade deal with the rest of the world. Read the article […]
Energy
Bill McKibben – Trump’s LNG Export Extortion Racket
Trump bullying the rest of the world into buying American LNG shows the US will do anything to keep the fossil fuel show on the road. Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury […]
EU politics
George Kerevan – The American ruling class is shifting towards Trump
Beneath the tumult and polarisation of American politics lies serious divides among the US ruling class about how to govern capitalism. George Kerevan is a Scottish journalist and economist, and a former SNP MP. Cross-posted […]
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 […]