Bolsonaro, like Trump, is not a disruption of the current neoliberal order; he is an intensification or escalation of its worst impulses. He is its logical conclusion
Unemployment now stands at close to 70 per cent and the economy is contracting at an ever faster rate
Neoliberal power is distinctive because it seeks absolute power, and can achieve that end only through global domination
The only truth we can know is that the western power-elite is determined to finish the task of making its power fully global, expanding it from near-absolute to absolute
Trumpās plan to tear up the rules-based international order
Not only is the role of pro-Israel partisans in the UK now visible, but their ugly assumptions are under closer scrutiny than ever before
Refugees are the final loose end in forcing Palestinians to accept Trumpās ādeal of the centuryā peace plan
Like blowing up a bridge to stop an advancing army
The Israeli Jewish public’s assumption that the Druze enjoy equal status in Israel was always fanciful illusion
The mediaās ever-more outlandish slurs against Corbyn and the Labour partyās imminent capitulation on the IHRAās full definition of anti-semitism are not unrelated events. The former was designed to bring about the latter
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