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Tariq Ali – Why does Europe want to erase its Muslim history? | Tariq Ali
4 Ocotber 2026
Ali Abunimah: Susan Abulhawa wins fight against Oxford Union censorship
Palestinian-American novelist susan abulhawa has secured the restoration of her full Oxford Union speech in a settlement announced on 5 October. It’s a major victory for free speech about Palestine and the fight to preserve the public record of Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people. Continue Reading Article HERE
John Rees – Not all workers are on board with the drive to war in Europe
While European leaders appear unified in beating the drums of war, many workers in the supply chain do not seem so convinced, with strikes rocking some of the defence industry’s key producers. John Rees is [...]
Euronews – Teen revolt or revolution? The student protests threatening France’s presidential race
There are some signs the student protests in France could be spreading into a broader movement. Read the article HERE.
Dean Baker – France’s Debt Problem is an AI Problem
If the AI hype is true, we won’t need to worry about fiscal deficits because growth will solve all problems. If they are wrong and the AI bubble bursts, interest rates will fall sharply. Dean [...]
Michael Roberts – Back to Keynes for ‘the good life’?
A new play exalts economist John Maynard Keynes as a prophet of the good life, but was he really? Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael [...]
Loren Balhorn – Germany has entered the populist era
The centre-ground is collapsing in Germany as far-right an radical left make gains. In ‘Tribune’. Read the article HERE.
Greek Reporter: Greece Has Become a “Café Economy,” LSE Study Finds
A recent study titled “The Café Economy” by the Hellenic Observatory at the London School of Economics (LSE) reveals an uncomfortable truth about the transformation of Greece’s economy following the bailout era.
Jonathan Cook – How the BBC sets a trap to make sure leftwing politicians never get a fair hearing
There’s a reason why so few truly leftwing politicians are visible in public life. Because the media’s role is to weed them out, discredit them, place them beyond the pale Jonathan Cook is the author [...]
John Mearsheimer, Ian Proud – “We are the Bad Guys”: Ukraine, Gaza, Iran, and the collapse of Western Superiority
11 October 2026
Aidan Regan – Ireland: A European welfare state on an American tax base
Budget 2027 tells you who gets what this year. Ten years of budgets tell you who pays, and for how long. Aidan Regan is a professor of political economy at the school of politics and [...]
George Beebe – 2027: The Ukraine winter we prayed wouldn’t come
Relentless Russian attacks and energy crisis, matched with depleting resources from abroad, demand that Trump make dramatic changes in approach to war now Read Article HERE Photo: Screengrab
Larry C. Johnson – The Other Hormuz Shocks: LNG and Helium. Economic effects of the Persian Gulf cutoff, from first-order to tertiary
This is a follow-up to my previous piece on the economic effects of the Persian Gulf sulfur and urea cutoff. In that piece I argued that the public conversation about the Strait of Hormuz has fixated on crude oil and ignored the other commodities the Gulf supplies: LNG, urea, sulfur and helium.
Lawrence Wilkerson, Larry Johnson, Nima Alkhorshid – Houthis Reach Taizz Outskirts, Saudi Attack Ends in Disaster
9 October 2026
Norman Finkelstein: Can Anyone STOP Israel? October 7, Three Years Later
7 October 2026
Michael Hudson – Feed Your Country or Pay Your Creditors
Iran war could turn rising oil and food costs into a debt crisis, forcing countries to put their populations before creditors. Energy prices and the risk of a world depression Robinson Erhardt: Michael, I woke [...]
Jonathan Cook – What’s shameful is that no party before the Greens called Zionism racist
Israel was forged out of ethnic cleansing and apartheid. The Greens have very belatedly recognised what should have been obvious all along Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and [...]
Steven Marsh – The Spanish Housing Crisis: Activists call a general strike
Thousands of protestors have set up encampments in city squares across Spain. The immediate spark has been the housing crisis but years of neo-liberal driven austerity have brought matters to a head Steven Marsh is [...]
Matthew Hoh – Brutish, Pernicious, and Stupid
Thoughts on Gaza, China, and Afghan drug lords. Matthew Hoh is the Associate Director of the Eisenhower Media Network. A former Marine and State Department official who resigned in protest over the wars in Iraq [...]
Jill Lepore, Chris Hedges – The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State
The ideological roots of our Big Tech technocrats, and how tech is facilitating the elimination of the democratic gains that centuries of political struggle have earned Americans Chris Hedges: An outgoing researcher at Anthropic announced [...]
Peter Oborne – How the Foreign Office veiled Israel’s crimes in Gaza to keep British arms flowing
Channel 4 investigation shows how the UK government repeatedly failed to hold the Israeli army to account for war crimes Peter Oborne’s new book, Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza, was recently published [...]
Double Down News – WE ARE BEING LIED TO: Richard Sanders EXPOSES Green Party Zionism is Racism Smears
7 Ocotber 2026
Ann Pettifor: The Bond Market’s Premonition: High Rates, Defaults, Slump, and War
The K-shaped global economy that enriched the rich and impoverished the rest now threatens collapse Read Article HERE
Larry C. Johnson: The Human Cost of The War Nobody Is Counting: Sulfur, Fertilizer, and an Email from Florida
For seven months, the coverage of the war with Iran has been about oil: tanker counts, the price of Brent, how much is left in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Hardly anyone outside the fertilizer trade has noticed that the Strait of Hormuz also carries close to half of the world’s seaborne sulfur. Sulfur is not glamorous. It is a byproduct of cleaning sour gas and crude oil, and most Americans could not tell you what it is used for. But turned into sulfuric acid, it is the indispensable ingredient in phosphate fertilizer.
Sami Al-Arian – Why Hamas believed the status quo was more dangerous than its 7 October gamble
Three years into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the consequences of a decision driven by siege, settlement expansion and assaults on Al-Aqsa are still unfolding Sami Al-Arian is the Director of the Center for Islam and [...]
Richard Murphy – Is France jettisoning neoliberalism?
France might be leading the world into the end of neoliberalism. Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting at Sheffield University Management School., and Chartered Accountant, and Co-founder of the Green New [...]
Aurelien – Cometh the Hour….Cometh … well, who exactly?
Today in the West reform is a slogan, not an activity Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” By Guallendra – Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=200809764 Last week, we looked at the grip that [...]
Hüseyin Dogru : October 7 – Terror or Anti-Colonial Resistance?
7 Ocrober 2026
John Mearsheimer – Trump Can’t Bluff Iran into Surrender
6 October 2026
EuroNews – Spanish judge lifts arrest warrant for former Catalan leader Puigdemont, opening door to his return
Independence leader Puigdemont is finally going to return, ending his long period of political exile. He will go back to a Catalunya that has largely deserted him and his party. Read the article HERE.
France: student revolt and state repression
French school students explain why they are organising blockades of their schools and the brutality they have faced from the French police. Cross-posted from Counterfire Below are speeches made at an international briefing organised by Informations [...]
David Hearst – British support for Israel is shattering
The notion that a two-state solution is the ‘viable’ option completely ignores the present and history of Israeli politics. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and speaker [...]
Cynthia Kaufman – How can we build a post capitalist world?
Review of Sven Beckert’s ‘Capitalism: A Global History’, which takes an unconventional view of how capitalism came about and what it actually is. Cynthia Kaufman is a writer and educator. She is the author of [...]
Daniel Finn – The European Green Party Attacks Solidarity With Palestine
‘The European Green Party rushed to condemn the Greens of England and Wales when they voted to support a single democratic state in Palestine. It has never condemned the German Greens for supporting Israel’s genocidal violence against the Palestinians.’ In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
Mike Elk – Brazil on the Brink: Why Lula Is Down Against Bolsonaro Jr
Bolsonaro Jr. won the first round, and there is not many reasons to believe he won’t win the second round on 25 October as well. Mike Elk is the senior labor reporter at Payday Report [...]
BBC – France closes up to 500 schools Monday over student protests
The kids are revolting! Read the article HERE.
Joshua Frank – Vampire Planet: Yes, Trump Seized Greenland After All
The US agreement with Denmark gives the super-power enormous control over Greenland’s critical mineral resources. Joshua Frank is co-editor of CounterPunch and co-host of CounterPunch Radio. He is the author of Atomic Days: The Untold Story of [...]
Paolo Gerbaudo – Spain’s New Protest Movement Is Putting Class Centre Stage
‘The occupation of Madrid’s Puerta del Sol by housing protesters has brought back memories of the anti-austerity revolt that began in 2011. But where the Indignados used generic populist language, this new movement has a clear left-wing focus on class.’ In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
Ben Wray – The housing movement has transformed Spanish politics, and might save Sánchez on 29 November
The eruption of a mass housing movement in the past 10 days has put social class back on the agenda of Spanish politics and completely altered the dimensions of a high stakes General Election on [...]
John Mearsheimer – Trump’s Big Bluff on Iran
The US strategy to convince Iran to surrender John Mearsheimer is a political scientist and international relations scholar and professor at the University of Chicago Cross-posted from John Mearsheimer’s Substack The Trump administration and its [...]
Michael Hudson – China’s Property Crisis: Who Takes the Loss?
SuperImperialism, Dollar System, Financialization and China’s Economic Transition South South Dialogue on Sustainability Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research [...]
Middle East Eye: Green Party recognises Zionism as a form of racism and backs single Palestinian state
Vote by party members on Sunday backs single democratic Palestinian state with equal rights for all ethnic and religious groups Read Article HERE
Dean Baker – Trade Deficit Soars in August: Trump’s Tariffs Don’t Seem to be Working
The August level of $132.6 billion is the second-highest trade deficit on record, topped only by last year’s March deficit.
Daron Acemoglu – AI may not be becoming superintelligent. It may be becoming distorted
Recent AI security failures may point to something more troubling than runaway intelligence: models becoming highly capable while learning to game narrow goals in brittle and dangerous ways Daron Acemoglu is a 2024 Nobel laureate [...]
German Foreign Policy: Israel – ‘Outpost of the West’
Seeking wider support for its policy of systematic violence, Israel’s far-right government expands cooperation with far-right parties across Europe – and attacks their antifascist opponents. But Berlin backs Tel Aviv out of self-interest Read Article HERE
Ian Proud – Detained by UK Counter-Terrorism Police at Heathrow: Britain Becomes More Totalitarian
3 October 2026
Michael Roberts: Brazil – four more years?
On Sunday, 4 October, Brasil is holding a general election Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog The most important election in South America [...]
Jason Hickel – Millions Marched for Climate. What changed?
2 Ocotober 2026
Lawrence Wilkerson, Larry Johnson, Nima Alkhorshid: Trump Says Europe Releases Massive Diesel Stockpiles
2 October 2026
Robin McAlpine – Resist Inflation Madness!
You have been trained to believe that inflation must be controlled with rises in interest rates. Now take two seconds to stop and ask why and you’ll start seeing just how nuts a lot of [...]
C.J. Polychroniou – With the Trial of ‘Ulm5’ Activists, Germany Looks More and More Like a Police State
The trial of five Palestinian rights activists, now approaching its final stage, has exposed for all to see not only Germany’s increasingly neofascist playbook for silencing dissent but complicity in Israel’s genocide C.J. Polychroniou is [...]
The Grayzone – British State Targets Palestine Action With Yet Another Crooked Trial
Once again, the British state is exploiting anti-democratic terrorism measures to secure convictions of Palestine Action defendants who targeted an Israeli weapons plant. UK media is currently forbidden from reporting on the trial Cross-posted fron [...]
Thomas Palley – Capitalism and the Polycrisis: Bad Apples or Bad Barrel?
This essay is about the polycrisis, whereby the global order is afflicted by simultaneous crises impacting economics, politics, societal relations, geopolitics, and nature. The essay uses the metaphor of “bad apples” versus “bad barrel” to explain the argument. The “bad apples” explanation views the polycrisis as a series of idiosyncratic crises, and it leaves the free market ideal intact and absolves capitalism.
Jonathan Cook: The West wants Netanyahu gone – so Palestinians can be killed more quietly again
Trump, nosediving in the polls and bristling over a disastrous war on Iran, needs a scapegoat – and the Israeli prime minister best fits the bill Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on [...]
Susan Neiman, Chris Hedges – Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era
In her new book, “Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era,” Susan Neiman investigates the structural evils of the Trump administration and how people are becoming ‘Good Germans’ in our fascist era Transcript Chris Hedges: [...]
Michael Roberts – Labour’s share
Calculating the distribution of profits to labour and capital Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Photo licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike [...]
Larry C. Johnson: America’s Diesel Surplus Is an Illusion (An Update from Karl Miller)
On paper, the United States should be the world’s safety valve in this fuel crisis. American refineries make far more diesel than Americans burn. But every one of those barrels is already spoken for. Between rising domestic demand, heavy export commitments and refineries running near their limit, the U.S. is drawing down its own stocks, not sitting on a surplus.
Hüseyin Dogru – Germany’s Hidden Role in the Indonesia’s 1965 Massacre
30 September 2026
Noura Erakat: Exit and Exception
The Board of Peace’s model for governing Palestine reflects designs for a new world order. Read Article HERE Jared Kushner, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and Steve Witkoff attend the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace at the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace on February 19, 2026 in Washington, DC.
Alastair Crooke – The faulty premises underlying Europeans’ ‘war on Russia’ hyper-ventilation
It was the West’s mistaken analysis that has trapped the West into an escalatory staircase of actions that risk taking Europe to a war with Russia Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and [...]
Craig Murray – Losing My Religion
All those institutions we were told were integral to democracy and world peace turn out to be the greatest threats. Craig Murray is a British former diplomat, political activist, human rights campaigner, blogger, and whistleblower [...]
Branko Milanović – Against purposeful activity and Abrahamic religions in a world of abundance
Keynes’ rejection of purposeful activity as desirable for humankind once the economic problem has been solved, and doubt on whether monotheistic religions will be needed once we reach abundance Branko Milanović is an economist specialised [...]
Jonathan Cook – Reporting of the RAF Fairford arrests blows the idea of a ‘free press’ out of the water
When the establishment media deals with issues in which the West’s war industries are most heavily invested, it happily jettisons even the semblance of critical distance from the state Jonathan Cook is the author of [...]
Antony Loewenstein, Double Down News – “IT’S A TOTAL HIJACK”: How Ex-Mossad Spies Are Running Foreign Governments
18 September 2026
Laura Wittebroek – Inside Spain’s Housing Crisis: The Eviction of Maricarmen
Maricarmen’s eviction was the straw that broke the camel’s back, sparking the biggest social movement seen in Spain since the ‘indignados’ 15 years ago. Laura Wittebroek is a writer and member of Clamour. Cross-posted from [...]
Rubén Díez García: The new protest camp in Madrid is not the same as 15M – it is its evolution
Housing has always been at the forefront of political concerns in Spain post-2008, but whereas the 15-M movement was more broadly about the legitimacy of the political and economic system, the demands of the current [...]
Reuters – US forces exit Iraq after two decades
It’s been a long time coming. Read the article HERE.
Madeline Carr – China is framed as the AI danger, but unlike the US, it already has safety rules
The debate around AI safety in the political West conveniently misses the fact that China has already introduced safety rules. Madeline Carr is Professor of Global Politics and Cybersecurity at University College London Cross-posted from [...]
Politico – Mélenchon’s plan to beat the far right: Grab the first-time voters
There is no doubt that Mélenchon’s campaign is shaking up French politics. Read the article HERE.
Open letter: No Place for Palantir in a Democratic Europe!
Palantir is getting its hands on public data across Europe, despite its record of using data for surveillance and AI warfare. Access the PDF We are European organisations demanding that our governments and the European [...]
Euronews – Protesters camp in Madrid in demonstration against Spain’ housing crisis
Very important protests are taking place in Madrid over the country’s savage housing costs. Read the article HERE.
Antony Loewenstein – As elections loom, Naza controversy strikes at the heart of Israel’s crisis
The reaction in Israel to a new documentary about the Zionist regime’s crimes in Gaza shows just how dedicated the political class is to genocide. Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist, best–selling author, filmmaker and [...]
Chris Bambery – The Orange Order, Sectarian marches and the Garvaghy Road
The British Government has sanctioned an attempt by the Orange Order to march into a predominantly Irish Nationalist community, but the move is being resisted on the streets. Chris Bambery is an author, political activist [...]
Middle East Eye – Labour conference blocks motion to cancel Palantir contract over Israeli army links
Palantir has a £330m contract to process the UK’s National Health Service data. Read the article HERE.
Steve Keen – Every Economics Concept Explained in 30 Minutes
27 September 2026
Branko Milanović and Nils Gilman: The End Of Upward Mobility
Artificial intelligence is coming for the meritocracy. Read Article HERE
Peter Haenseler: Global Tipping Points Lead the World Into a State of Entropy
We are experiencing not just one, but many tipping points in world history all at once. The world is in a state of entropy. An analysis of a situation in which it is no longer possible to make predictions Read Article HERE
Chris Hedges – Donald Trump and the Age of Evil
By any standard of morality, Trump is depraved. But adorned with the power of the state, he descends to another level — the level of evil. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was [...]
Michael Roberts – AI: the biggest economic bet in US history
The warning signs of the coming crash keep multiplying. An upward trend in interest rates amid falling bond prices could be the crisis-triggering factor. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and [...]
Thomas Palley – Reflections on academic tenure prompted by events at The New School
How to govern academia and remedy the system’s existing glaring failings. Thomas Palley is an American economist who has served as the chief economist for the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission. The New [...]
John Mearsheimer, Chris Hedges – The Iran War and the Looming Economic Collapse
John Mearsheimer discusses the US’ dwindling options to end the war on Iran and the worsening economic crisis the globe faces if the war continues. Transcript Chris Hedges: The situation with Iran, despite talks between [...]
Hesham Gaafar – A quarter-century after the ‘war on terror’ began, the American Middle East is over
The US-built regional order is not collapsing in a single dramatic moment. It is fading quietly into the background – until one day people wake up to an entirely new reality Hesham Gaafar is a [...]
Branko Milanović – My cousin, a non-person
A twentieth-century story Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World, was published November 2025. Cross-posed fromBranko Milanović’s blog Global [...]
Ilan Pappé – Why Al-Aqsa Flood Happened: Ilan Pappé Revisits October 2023
Three years later, Ilan Pappé revisits the siege, calculations and impossible choices behind the Al-Aqsa Flood operation of October 2023. Read Article HERE
Jeffrey D. Sachs – Stop Mad King Donald’s Iran War: An Open Letter to Members of the US Congress
The war with Iran is Trump’s folly but Congress’s disgrace for not stopping it. Jeffrey D. Sachs is University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He is President of [...]
Alastair Crooke – A world turned upside down
Can civilisations pull together the fragments of older insights and knowing to give the context by which to make moral discourse intelligible again? Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the [...]
Caitlin Johnstone – Under Capitalism It’s Legal For Employers To Steal From Employees
Workers remain a repressed and exploited group. Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-supported independent journalist from Melbourne, Australia. Her political writings can be found on Medium. Articles are re-posted from Caitlins Newsletter. Cross-posted from Caitlin Johnstone’s Substack Doordash [...]
Declassified UK: What the media isn’t telling you about Burnham’s support for Saudi Arabia
‘Defensive’ refuelling of planes bombing Yemen can still cause war crimes. Just ask Keir Starmer Read Article HERE
Alex Krainer, Glenn Diesen – Bond Market Collapse and the New Chinese Economic Order
23 September 2026
Bill Mitchell: The failure of neoliberalism and the progressive failure to articulate that has engendered the rise of the far Right
The irony in all of this, which I am now researching is that the calls for ‘individual freedom’ which characterised the rise of neoliberalism and the messaging that captured political support for the reconfiguration of the state has manifest in an increasingly ‘fascist’ politics.
Norman Finkelstein – Who Controlled the Narrative After 7 October?
23 September 2026
Gabor Maté: When Trauma and Politics Intersect – Germany, Palestine and Israel
21 September 2026
Ann Pettifor: Its Time to Ignore Defeatists on Both Right and Left
The Left must reject Neoliberal Political Framing. Taxes do not pay for government spending. Taxes are a consequence of spending. Read Article HERE
John Mearsheimer – Is Ukraine Committing National Suicide?
22 September 2026
Nate Bear – Germany De-Industrialised Itself For Ukraine, And Trump’s Oil Donors Profited
In 2021, the US supplied around 5% of all Europe’s gas. That figure is now 26% and rising. Nate Bear is a journalist, a pr/comms man for corporates, money funds, for non-profits, for climate orgs, [...]
Ben Wray/Gig Economy Project – What Mamdani’s DoorDash wage theft crackdown teaches us
Zohran Mamdani: “DoorDash had underpaid more than 260K delivery workers across New York City. Today, after years of corporate greed and impunity, we are holding DoorDash to account” Ben Wray is the Coordinator and Researcher [...]
Steve Jermy, Daniel Davis – The Houthis’ Red Sea Offensive Drawing the West Toward More War
22 September 2026
Aurelien – No Nukes?..Are nuclear weapons obsolete?
Is the era of nuclear weapons coming to an end? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Nuclear weapons have been much talked about recently. The interest comes in waves, often sparked [...]
Mathew D. Rose – White Supremacy and German Exceptionalism Triumph in Two German Elections
Three recent elections in Germany have shocked the German political caste Mathew D. Rose is an Investigative Journalist specialised in Organised Political Crime in Germany and an editor of BRAVE NEW EUROPE Photo: Wikimedia Commons [...]
Nimrod Flaschenberg – German Centrists are smearing Die Linke as antisemites
‘Claims that socialist party Die Linke threatens Jewish life in Berlin are shameful lies. Sadly, many desperate German politicians would rather make cheap antisemitism accusations than address the cost-of-living issues that drove Die Linke’s victory.’ In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
Euronews – EU countries sound alarm over weapons brought back from Ukraine front line
Weaponry sold or donated to Ukraine has been found all over the world: it’s doing a roaring second-hand trade. Read the article HERE. Picture by Ministry of Defence for Ukraine: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anti-terrorist_operation_i
Robin Andersen – The Power of the Backlash Against the Billionaire Zionist and the Pop Singer who Silenced Macklemore
The Ed Sheeran-Macklemore episode has exposed who has the real power in the music industry and why so many musicians are silent on the Gaza genocide. Robin Andersen is professor emerita of media studies at Fordham [...]
John Rees – Trump leaves Saudi to fight Houthis alone
The unwillingness of Trump to come to the Saudis rescue is the latest signal of the weakness of US imperialism in the Middle East. John Rees is a writer, broadcaster and activist, and is one [...]
Zain Asaf – Farage’s economic agenda is confused for a reason: his voter base is divided
Nigel Farage’s Reform party has attracted significant support by those disgruntled with establishment parties in the UK, but its voters have very different views on key economic questions. Zain Asaf has a PhD in Political [...]
Farid Hafez – Europe’s most powerful party is stoking a Muslim scare
The Islamophobia of the European centre-right is now pretty much identical to that of the far-right, and both want to cut any funding for campaigning against anti-Muslim racism. Farid Hafez is Assistant Professor of Sociology [...]
Michael Hudson, Kathleen Tyson – The Economy at the End of the World: The Mechanics of Financial Rupture
Nika Dubrovsky speaks to Michael Hudson and Kathleen Tyson at the David Graeber Institute about the changing dynamics of the global system, including the rising importance of gold as a strategic asset. Cross-posted from Michael [...]
David Broder – First We Took Manhattan, Then We Took Berlin
On Sunday, Germany’s socialist party Die Linke won the Berlin elections for the first time. Like New York’s Zohran Mamdani, it beat the establishment parties by offering Berliners concrete action on rents and the cost of living. In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
Morten Høi Jensen – Against the Tide
A new biography of Victor Surge. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
Joseph Grosso – AI Bubble Economics: The Coming Crash and The Day After
AI companies would have to achieve unprecedented profits to justify the financial investments they have received: the more likely scenario is that this bubble will burst sooner or later. Joseph Grosso is a librarian and writer [...]
France 24: Germany’s Merz admits ‘disaster’ in state elections, vows to press ahead with reforms
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Sunday described his CDU party’s heavy losses in two regional elections as a “disaster”, but vowed to push ahead with a reform drive. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party took first place in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, exit polls showed, and also gained in strength in another election in Berlin. Read Article HERE
Jonathan Cook – Super-intelligent AI won’t kill us. Dumb billionaires are doing that all by themselves
The super-rich have already screwed up the planet in their pursuit of power and profit. AI simply gives them a new tool to hasten their story – and ours – to its dramatic finale Jonathan [...]
Fleur Hargreaves – ‘Hyperzionism’: How Germany’s conflation of antisemitism and anti-Zionism allowed a far-right return
While Germany’s far-right won its best election results since the Second World War, politicians continued accusing anti-Zionist Jews of antisemitism Fleur Hargreaves is a British-Jewish writer and graduate of English Literature at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge [...]
Michael Roberts – IIPPE 2026 part two: AI, imperialism, money and fascism
Capitalism Moving Beyond Neoliberalism: Crises, Changes, and What Comes Next Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog In part two of my report on [...]
Think BRICS, Marco Fernandes: BRICS, between small gains and major undertakings
The New Delhi Summit, progress on the margins, and challenges ahead Read Article HERE
Norman Finkelstein, Muhammad Jalal – Macklemore, Mamdani and Miliband: Does Anyone Still Like the Shape of Israel
18 September 2026
Ahmed Alnaouq – Gaza and Germany’s Forgotten African Genocide
30 September 2026
Richard Wolff, Glenn Diesen – U.S.-Israel Divorce as U.S. Economy is on the Brink of Collapse
18 September 2026
Larry C. Johnson: The Squeeze Reaches the Runway: The Distillate War Is Now Cutting Flights
Read Article HERE
Ilya Roubanis: Gulf-Eurasian energy crunch pushes Europe to the edge of an inflationary crisis
Europe will be counting on luck as much as policy to face a mounting energy crisis fuelled by wars in Iran and Russia-Ukraine Read Article HERE Photo licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
Ramzy Baroud: Is Europe Restraining Israel – or Merely Protecting the Two-State Illusion?
This time, Europe seems serious about holding Israel accountable – or at least that is what 11 European countries, together with Canada, want us to believe. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of [...]
Larry C. Johnson – Judgment Day for the Middle of the Barrel: Karl Miller’s Warning That Diesel Has Stopped Meeting Demand
Has diesel now entered the crisis that has long been predicted? Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter [...]
Michael Roberts – Russian elections: stagnant politics and economy, unending war
A look at the current state of the Russian economy Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Russia has elections to its parliament (Duma) [...]
The Electronic Intifada: Why US feminist groups ignore Israel’s sexual crimes
Mainstream feminist organizations have ignored Palestine. “These are international organizations which work abroad but Palestine is just completely missing from the picture,” Jenin, Codepink’s Palestine campaigner, said on the 10 September edition of The Electronic Intifada Livestream. Read Article HERE
Middle East Eye: Pakistan says time has come to implement Mecca defence pact
Pakistan says it will defend Saudi Arabia as renewed Houthi attacks raise pressure on the three-way defence agreement Read Article HERE Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Steve Keen – Trump’s New Plan to RESET the Dollar
16 September 2026
Tucker Carlson: Norman Finkelstein Reveals Shocking Discoveries While Researching History of Israel’s Gaza Obsession
14 September 2026
Marco Carnelos – Iran does not need to beat the Americans militarily. It just needs to outlast them
As Yemen’s Houthis ramp up the costs of war in the Gulf, Tehran is wagering on US elections to bring a political sea change Marco Carnelos is a former Italian diplomat. He has been assigned [...]
Jonathan Cook – Ed Sheeran just learnt: Being pimped by the billionaires for genocide is a bad look
We must keep prising the fingers of the billionaire class off our throats until it is only the discredited, and morally bankrupt, who refuse to speak loudly in opposition to genocide Jonathan Cook is the [...]
Michael Hudson, Lena Petrova – The Oil War Comes Home
How long can Western nations serve as proxies to keep the US afloat? Michael Hudson (preview clip):The United States is selling oil short, just as it has kept down the price of gold through financial [...]
Yanis Varoufakis, Glenn Diesen: EU Is Finished & China Can Now Pull the Plug on the U.S. Economy
17 September 2026
Scott Ritter, George Galloway – Saudi Arabia is a paper tiger on the way out
16 September 2026
John Mearsheimer – The Russia I Saw
16 September 2026
Branko Milanović – Three types of literature regarding the world of AI
Economics, politics, and philosophy for a new era Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World, was published November [...]
Chris Hedges – Osama Bin Trump
Our imperial overreach began 25 years ago with the War on Terror. It is being brought to a grim conclusion by Donald Trump’s war on Iran Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was [...]
Michael Roberts: IIPPE 2026 – part one: Mattei, China, etc
Capitalism Moving Beyond Neoliberalism: Crises, Changes, and What Comes Next. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog The 16th Annual Conference in Political Economy [...]
Michael von der Schulenburg – The significance of the enemy states clause for Germany
Russia, Germany, and the UN Enemy State Clause Michael von der Schulenburg worked for the United Nations in many crisis and war zones around the world for 34 years, including in the rank of UN [...]
David Cronin: EU “disinformation” claim against me exposed as baseless
The articles that I have written about von Schnurbein examine how she has been pursuing a pro-Israel agenda since she took up her post more than a decade ago and how she has weaponized anti-Semitism in order to smear and potentially muzzle Palestine solidarity activists. Read Article HERE Katharina von Schnurbein, an EU official who supports Israel. (Xavier Lejeune / European Union)
John Mearsheimer, Judge Napolitano – Trump Unintentionally Reshaping Middle East
15 September 2026
Larry C. Johnson: The Wrong War: Trump Blames Kyiv for a Diesel Crisis His Own Iran War Triggered
On 14 September 2026, with American diesel having crossed six dollars a gallon for the first time in history, President Trump settled the question of blame in a single sentence posted to social media: “The World’s Diesel price rise is mostly caused by the Russia/Ukraine War, not Iran.” A day earlier, at his golf resort in Doonbeg, Ireland, he had told Zelensky to “stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia,” because the strikes were “hurting the world.”
The Kyiv Independent – Trump tells Zelensky to stop striking Russian diesel infrastructure
There are deep contradictions at play in the Ukraine proxy war. Read the article HERE.
Olly Haynes – How Le Pen’s RN became a standard party of French big business
Rassemblement National made a brief ‘social turn’ at the end of the last decade, but with the Presidency now in sight Le Pen’s party has returned to its origins as a political force which aims [...]
Deniz Torcu – How the far-right wins support among some ethnic minorities and migrants
The far-right seeks to find identity divisions between different groups of ethnic minorities and migrants, setting them against one another. Deniz Torcu is Adjunct Professor of Globalization, Business and Media at IE University, Madrid. Cross-posted [...]
Gábor Scheiring – The Rise of Germany’s Far Right Reflects a Systemic Crisis
‘Pundits have widely explained the rise of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland in terms of cultural backlash or the eastern German psyche. Yet its rise is no passing disturbance but a symptom of a much deeper crisis in Europe’s social model.’ In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
John Aitken – Iran’s threat to cut undersea cables in Strait of Hormuz poses a serious threat to Gulf states
Undersea cables are indispensable to the emerging AI economies of the Gulf states, making them a major point of vulnerability that Iran could exploit if it chooses to move further up the escalation ladder. John [...]
Cory Doctorow, Myriam François – The AI Bubble Is About to Burst And We’ll All Pay
11 September 2026
Nicola Quondamatteo – Sweden’s Far Right: Faltering but Not Defeated
‘Sunday’s Swedish election saw the center-left bloc narrowly defeat the outgoing right-wing government. While the Social Democrats are set to lead a new coalition, the once-mighty party has continued to lose its historic base.’ In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
Shady Ibrahim – What would Houthi control of Bab al-Mandeb mean for the region?
The major advance of the Houthis in Western Yemen and potential control of a key Red Sea chokepoint represents a significant shift in the balance of power which will affect not just the Yemen civil [...]
Harrison Berger – How Trump’s Iran operation turned into a forever war
Trump has got into a Middle East quagmire that he has no easy way out of. Harrison Berger is an independent journalist who has contributed to Drop Site News, The American Conservative, and The Nation. [...]
Middle East Eye – French TV censors actress Adele Haenel after she condemns Israel’s genocide in Palestine
Being anti-genocide gets you cancelled from the TV in France now. Read the article HERE.
Vijay Prashad – Collaboration, Not Confrontation: Xi Jinping’s Visit to the United States
China can’t be contained and war with China would be a disaster for the whole planet: the US will have to find a way to work with the East Asian giant. Vijay Prashad is the [...]
Chas Freeman, Glenn Diesen – U.S. Alliances Collapse and Israel Commits Suicide
14 September 2026
Jason Hickel, Marceau Challet, Suryo – Unequal exchange in Africa’s CFA Zone
New data on France, Europe and China reveals a striking story. Jason Hickel is a Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and Visiting Professor at [...]
Michael Roberts: Sweden election today – no longer a ‘social democracy’
Today, Sunday, Sweden is holding a general election, but like most of Europe this once liberal nation has moved very far to the right Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and [...]
Larry C. Johnson: The Houthis Reach the Sea – and Washington Tells Riyadh to Fight Alone
US hegemony in Western Asia deteriorating further Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. As an independent [...]
Wolfgang Streeck: Who Will Pay
What does it mean to say we are in a ‘polycrisis’? Under an increasingly undemocratic capitalism, the countries of the rich world all confront a similar bundle of crises that have sprung up more or less unnoticed. Underlying them is a long-simmering fiscal crisis of the state that is now finally coming to the fore, where the growing demands placed on society by the evolution of contemporary capitalism are clashing with the declining ability of democratic politics to secure the resources needed to meet them.
Marco Carnelos – I watched the twin towers burn. Now the US is repeating its worst mistakes in Iran
Twenty-five years of invasions and unconditional support for Israel have deepened the grievances behind 9/11 and left America less secure Marco Carnelos is a former Italian diplomat. He has been assigned to Somalia, Australia and [...]
Thomas Palley – An American tragedy: the woeful self-inflicted consequences of 9/11
Photo: Creative Commons The 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon has resulted in a catalogue of self-inflicted disasters for the US. It was exploited by the worst elements of our political system to create a surveillance society, increase military spending, and strengthen US imperialism abroad. Those steps were taken in the name of making us safer, exploited our fears, and were wrapped in the flag. Everyone asked “How it happened.” No one asked “Why it happened.”