Geopolitics
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi – Culmination
Excellent analysis of the dynamics at play in the Israel-Iran war. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
United States
Geopolitics
Politico – ‘Donald is right’ and China is the problem, EU chief says
Ursula Von Der Leyen will be remembered by historians as a key player in Europe’s decline. Read the article HERE.
Uncategorized
Wim Laven – The Unbearable Familiarity of Force in Los Angeles
The protests in Los Angeles over migrant deportations has many echoes in modern American history. Wim Laven has a PhD in International Conflict Management, he teaches courses in political science and conflict resolution, and is on the […]
Geopolitics
Anatol Lieven – Fresh Ukraine, Russia demands show no interest in actual peace
Both sides seem to be willing to allow the war to go on, with the risks of NATO being dragged in growing all the time. Anatol Lieven is Director of the Eurasia Program at the […]
Solutions
Eric Ross – No, We Don’t Need a New Manhattan Project for AI
The AI race has parallels with the nukes race at the start of the atomic age – just like then, humanity itself may be in jeopardy. Eric Ross is an organizer, educator, researcher, and PhD […]
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 […]
Geopolitics
Branko Marcetic – Trump’s Unimpressive Yemen Cease-Fire Deal
‘With Donald Trump’s cease-fire deal with Yemen, we now have the same outcome that we would have had if Trump had never started bombing Yemen in the first place.’ In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Corporate Europe Observatory – Will the EU lower regulatory standards to appease Trump?
The risk is that Brussels uses the excuse of a deal with the United States to prevent a tariff war to slip in deregulation by the back door. Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) is a research […]
Geopolitics
Al Jazeera – Ukraine says it is poised to sign minerals deal with the US
This is basically a weapons for minerals deal. Very ugly. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies – If the US can’t adapt to multipolarity, it will decline faster
The future demands a peaceful transition to international cooperation in a multipolar world. Medea Benjamin is co-founder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK: Women for Peace. Nicolas J. S. Davies is an independent journalist and a researcher […]