Climate Crisis
Claudia Horn: Europe Needs to Radicalise Its Climate Policies in Response to the Energy Crisis
The EU is watering down its tepid ecological reforms as energy prices soar. Read the article HERE.
Ukraine war
Corruption
Branko Marcetic: A Missile Strike in Poland Shows Why Government Agencies Can’t Be the Sole Arbiters of Truth
After a Ukrainian missile mishap in Poland, misinformation blaming Russia quickly spread. The lie came from precisely the “authoritative sources” now being treated as the arbiters of truth by social media platforms. Read the article […]
EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck: Getting Closer
On war-fever among Germany’s liberal left. Read the article HERE.
National Politics
Melvin Goodman: Lessons from the Cuban missile crisis
Sixty years since the Cuban missile crisis, US elites have not learned the lessons for today’s nuclear threat Cross-posted from Counterpunch Sixty years ago, we survived a nuclear standoff between John F. Kennedy and Nikita […]
EU politics
Ben Burgis: We should have listened to Bernie Sanders about Ukraine
Bernie got it right again. Read the article here.
Finance
Eve Ottenberg: The West can’t stop pillaging other countries’ bank accounts
Seizing the funds of sovereign states is not a good strategy for maintaining global hegemony Cross-posted from CounterPunch With the explanation that it had to punish Russia for its war in Ukraine, the west stole […]