By Jason Fields* – Newsweek If NATO went along with it, a war would start like none we’ve ever seen: Endless troops, streams of tanks, a sky blotted out by warplanes. And that’s the best-case scenario.
By Frieda Afary* – Truthout The current popular protests in Iran against the compulsory hijab and state violence are being led by young women and capturing the attention of the world. Masses of women have come out throughout the country to burn their hijabs.
Margolis* – Newsweek On Sept. 7, 2022, the Bicentennial of Brazil’s independence from Portugal, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro greeted many thousands of his acolytes in Rio de Janeiro, hoping to boost his chances for re-election to the Brazilian presidency. Yet, in an…
By Vito Laterza* – Al Jazeera The adoption of populism by other parties casts doubts on Italy’s capacity to keep Giorgia Meloni’s agenda in check. Far-right strongwoman Giorgia Meloni has emerged as the undisputed winner of Italy’s general election held last Sunday.
By Andrew Desiderio* – POLITICO Rome’s incoming prime minister is a darling of U.S. conservatives with a history of far-right rhetoric on immigration. And when it comes to Ukraine, she epitomizes the Republican Party’s foreign policy push-pull. Giorgia Meloni’s government is…
By Felipe Tirado* – The conversation Brazilians will face one of the most important elections of their lives on October 2 2022, after four years of growing polarisation and political violence under President Jair Bolsonaro. Although the upcoming elections are centred on the…
Sachs* Former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski famously described Ukraine as a “geopolitical pivot” of Eurasia, central to both US and Russian power. Since Russia views its vital security interests to be at stake in the current conflict, the war in…
Lorenzo Marsili* – The Guardian There’s nothing nostalgic about the far-right political space that the country’s new leader is trying to carve out in Europe Italy, wrote the situationist philosopher Guy Debord in 1968, “sums up the social contradictions of the entire world”. As…
By Aurelien Mondon and Evan Smith (*) – Jacobin Many liberal responses to Trumpism lament “polarization” on all sides. But the call to return to a sensible centrism ignores the real crises we face — falsely equating those who want to solve them with a far right who would make…
By Yanis Varoufakis* Capitalism conquered the world by commodifying almost everything that had a value but not a price, thus driving a sharp wedge between values and prices. It did the same to money.
