Originally published at NLR Sidecar Just a few months ago, the French political situation seemed to be smiling on Emmanuel Macron. Since…
The different treatment of these two heroes is a fine example of the flexibility of the concepts of ‘human rights’ and ‘freedom of the press’ which the western media trumpet at every opportunity
Macron is encouraging the replacement of human interaction with a tangled web of government sites, robots, voicemail, QR codes and apps
The familiar whiff of the ‘clash of civilisations’ is back
Here is the core of the system: ‘white privilege’ means the power of money
What happens next? Will the world be saved, but only for the rich few, as in 2008; and will digitisation and surveillance become the new order?
The US seems to have decided that it can’t take on China and Russia at the same time, so its principal geopolitical rival in the coming decades will be China
Can a state that condemns, without real justification, an international disarmament treaty it spent years negotiating then threaten a co-signatory with military aggression?
The Times is in the vanguard of those preparing psychologically for conflict with Russia. There is almost no remaining resistance to its line
The far right’s strong performance in elections was for decades an insurance policy for left- and right-wing neoliberals: any moderate, no matter…
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