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Lily Lynch: Tech-Mythologies
The ‘convenience’ of digitalisation is all the US can muster as a vision for post-war Ukraine. In New Left Review’s Sidecar. Read the article HERE.
United States
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis: Who’s Afraid of Central Bank Digital Currencies?
Once upon a time, the greed of tobacco companies was channeled through libertarian outrage over the restriction of smokers’ freedom to choose cancer. Today, the outrage is serving the interests of bankers panicking at the […]
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Ashik Siddique: The US Still Spends More on Its Military Than 144 Nations Combined
New data from the Stockholm Peace Research Institute on military spending shows a predictable picture Ashik Siddique is a research analyst for the National Priorities Project, working on analysis of the federal budget and military […]
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Branko Marcetic: US Sanctions Are Brutal and Inhumane. And They Don’t Work.
Sanctions are a form of collective punishment. Their costs are overwhelmingly borne by innocent people rather than governments. And they are just another form of war, not an alternative to it. The US’s many sanctions […]
EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck: A bipolar order?
Another must read from Wolfgang Streeck on the perils of American hegemony in Europe, in New Left Review’s Sidecar. Read the article HERE.
Media
John Pilger – The Coming War: Speak Up, Now
Those who want to stop the US-led march to war with China must raise their voices. Cross-posted from Counterpunch In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another […]
Economics
Alice Kinghorn-Gray, Ben Wray – Are we heading to war with China? W/ Ho-Fung Hong
In the last year, simmering tensions between the west and China have threatened to erupt. The standoff over Taiwan, and the struggle for control of the South China Sea, are only one flashpoint. Alice Konghorn-Gray […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – A multipolar world and the dollar
European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde’s speech to the US Council of Foreign Relations was revealing of the fear among western elites that their global power may be slipping away Michael Roberts is an Economist in […]
EU politics
Joe Lauria: Leaks spelling the end for Ukraine
The leaks from the Pentagon have revealed an awkward truth: the United States knows that Ukraine is not winning the war Joe Lauria is editor-in-chief of Consortium News and a former U.N. correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, […]
EU politics
John P. Ruehl: How the war in Ukraine is shaking up the global arms industry
Arms exports are surging, with German and French weapons producers among those to be profiting from war John P. Ruehl is an Australian-American journalist living in Washington, D.C. He is a contributing editor to Strategic […]