The British establishment’s aggressive posturing against Russia is based on a deeply distorted self-perception of the UK’s power — and national delusions about the US-UK “special relationship”. Read here.
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The US is using the same gaslighting tactics used to justify the post-90s NATO expansion towards Russia to justify the deepening of anti-China military alliances in the Asia-Pacific.
We are in the midst of yet another “great transformation” — but the future it heralds couldn’t be farther from the democratic, co-operative international order he envisioned. Read here.
Militarism, censorship, authoritarianism — the EU is turning into everything Remainers feared Brexit would bring to the UK.
The measures purportedly undertaken in response to the pandemic have accelerated the trend towards increasingly concentrated, oligarchical and authoritarian forms of capitalist power.
America’s embrace of protectionism is an admission of weakness — an emblem of the US’s demotion to no-longer-hegemonic status. Read here.
The WikiLeaks founder remains in a potentially never-ending legal limbo. Assange himself spoke of “punishment as process”: subjecting enemies of the state to lengthy detentions without trial. Read here.
An increasingly desperate establishment is cracking down on dissent, both on the right and on the left.
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) seems more interested in sweeping the story under the carpet — and shutting down other investigations — than uncovering the truth. Read here.