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Do you hear the students sing?

France could be the canary in the coal mine. Its long tradition of student protest makes it particularly fertile ground for turning dissatisfaction into...

Being Against Capitalism Isn’t Enough

Socialists need more than a critique of capitalism. We need a concrete account of how a socialist economy could work — and make ordinary people’s lives better....
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The Tech Oligarchs Have Captured Washington — Now They’re Pivoting to the States

What has been revealed this election cycle is that, in the age of crypto and the AI boom, Silicon Valley has carried out a near-total capture of our federal government. Meanwhile, Big Tech has pivoted to state elections in an attempt to undermine the levels of government where our organizing...
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What To Expect At The EU’s October Summit

The fight over cash in Brussels tends to be the fiercest and most drawn-out, and will divert much of the EU’s attention away from the bigger international issues confronting the bloc, such as the war in Ukraine and even its own process of admitting new members....
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US Withdrew from Iraq, the Dream of a Greater Persian Empire Collapsed

The Iranian leadership wants the world to forget its efforts to resurrect the Greater Persian Empire with US leeway, its attempts to forcibly coerce regional states into it, and the ruthless killing of millions of innocents for this cause. However, forgetting these grievances will not be possible. Furthermore, defining the...
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After the Guns Fall Silent: From an Emperor’s Notes to Turkey

Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations is a text that shows how a ruler in the midst of war tried to think not only about fighting, but about the order beyond the war and about his own conduct. For him, a person’s true test is not to display the power he possesses to...
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Signing the protocol to surrender the world’s throne

The meeting hosted by the White House was not the dawn of a new regulatory era so much as a declaration of presidential anxiety—the angst of a political ruler who witnesses with his own eyes how the historic empire of state power is turning into mere lingering shadows, while “Superintelligence”...
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The end of US hegemony in the Middle East

However, US forces currently stationed at 19 bases, eight of which are permanent, are expected to be withdrawn. This is, first, because these bases have proven highly vulnerable to attacks by low-cost drones and missiles and, second, because they are scattered across various locations; consolidating them geographically makes sense, as...
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German Auto Crisis: Capital Attacks Workers

One does not need to be a follower of conspiracy theories or fantasies to recognise that German workers are dealing with a never-before-seen, full-frontal attack on the achievements of Germany’s organised workers. Capital, conservative and reactionary politicians, and the business press are running some kind of “big ideas lottery” on...
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Encountering Zionism

In this story, Jews are not just a model minority but a protected minority of a West whose moral credentials are assured (since everyone remembers Auschwitz) by its philo-Semitism. The civilization can therefore express its anxieties about decline in morally righteous terms. Churchill’s 1920 project has succeeded, converting some Jews...
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The Return Of The German Question

Worse, this looming existential crisis for the EU is unfolding against the backdrop of the continuing war in Ukraine, a persistent Russian threat to the continent, and America’s military withdrawal from Europe. The coming weeks and months could prove decisive for Europe. The new nationalism represents an open betrayal of...
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Chomsky, Said, Falk: Three Titans and the Disappearance of the Progressive Public Intellectual
The disappearance of progressive public intellectuals like Chomsky and Said matters. Falk, happily, is still heard and appreciated from time
Is everything conscious?
Can panpsychism make the world intelligible? I’m not sure that anything can, or that it even makes sense to pursue
The Anatomy of Evil
The final question is not whether a society remembers its own suffering, but whether that memory enlarges its capacity to
The reinvention of the conquest in Latin America
May this October 12 serve, more than ever, as a day of active remembrance. A remembrance of historical injustice, but
What Does “History and Tradition” Require?
United States Supreme Court justices have long insisted that the Establishment Clause must be understood in light of its “generating
The Political Case for Hell
If you take hell seriously, it can lift a critical burden from your politics. Suddenly, the next election does not
The UAE’s Red Sea Ambitions
The Red Sea belongs to no single regional or external power. Its waters connect nations, but its coastlines remain subject
Feature: Membership Is Not Strategy: Ghana, BRICS And The Discipline Of Clubs
This argument is testable. It would be proved wrong if BRICS begins delivering automatic benefits to partners, such as trade
How to Improve Global Mineral Governance
The race to secure critical minerals has intensified at the same time as the international community has recognized the need
Will Ukraine survive the winter?
Chances are that both Ukraine and Europe will survive this coming winter – all the losses, privations and sufferings notwithstanding.

Interview with Fabio Vighi On Crisis Deployment and the Collapse of Political Language

Here’s the mechanism: US federal debt is now so enormous ($38 trillion and climbing) that any rise in borrowing costs becomes an existential threat. To...

Ex Oriente Odysseus: the Babylonian Connection of a Greek Hero

The transfer of Mesopotamian culture to Greece was multidimensional, and it also featured a very important linguistic component. Akkadian, an Afro-Asiatic language of the Semitic...

The case for populism

Frank Furedi’s In Defence of Populism is the definitive guide to the forces upending the status quo across the West....

Europe’s Rearmament: The Push for Military Spending

“We reject the militarisation of our societies and support the...

American Soul-Searching after the Iraq Withdrawal

Our nation was founded with a limited-government republic, one with...

Between Trump’s US and Xi’s China, the trap India must avoid

Faced with converging and competing Sino-American imperatives, India risks drifting...

Xi Jinping’s US Visit

Peace requires restraint from both sides, but restraint cannot mean...

When Orientalism Becomes a Career: From James Mill to Jared Kushner

For James Mill, knowledge about India helped produce institutional authority...

Southeast Asia’s Room for Manoeuvre in Critical Minerals

In the final analysis, access to critical minerals will likely...

Interview with Fabio Vighi On Crisis Deployment and the Collapse of Political Language

Here’s the mechanism: US federal debt is now so enormous...

The rise of the far right in Germany and the crisis of democratic representation

The analysis “The Far Right in Germany: Liberal Democracy’s Crisis...

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