Re-reading Richard Pipes’ “The Formation of the Soviet Union” 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 [...]
How the United States is using oil, technology, transportation and the dollar system to rebuild its declining global power. #Glenn DiesenWelcome back. Professor Michael Hudson joins us today, and I would advise everyone to follow [...]
What actually causes inflation? There are a number of theories. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Guglielmo Carchedi is Senior Researcher in the Department of Economics and Econometrics [...]
Norman Finkelstein examines a report recently published by an Israeli “Civil Commission” headed by Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy Silenced No More—Sexual Terror Unveiled: The Untold Atrocities of October 7 and Against Hostages in Captivity. Norman Finkelstein [...]
Whitney Webb explains how Leslie Wexner privatized Ohio’s state government, and is using his position between the markets and the state to help the Thielverse build out the ‘Silicon Heartland.’ Under the radar, the billionaire [...]
Diplomacy has effectively its own language, and the sum total of that language is, in theory at least, the sum total of possible interactions between states in peacetime. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand [...]
Trump’s White House runs a mob-style extortion racket that will bankrupt the country the way Trump bankrupted his casinos. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The [...]
The best Trump can do is to stop the conflicts agglutinating into one global war. Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Stategic Culture [...]
Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of [...]
