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West prepares to plunder post-war Ukraine with neoliberal shock therapy: privatization, deregulati..

Jake Kallio and Benjamin Norton
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Western governments and corporations met in Switzerland to plan harsh neoliberal economic policies to impose on post-war Ukraine, calling to cut labor laws, “open markets,” drop tariffs, deregulate industries, and “sell state-owned enterprises to private...

The Supreme Court’s Long March towards the Republic of Gilead

Thomas Klikauer
Gender issues
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The Republic of Gilead is a fictional destination of a crypto-fascistoid state – showing signs of becoming fascistic without yet being fascist – where religio-fundamentalism has mutated into a Divine Republic. The Republic of Gilead is part of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel, The...

How toxic universities kick people out

Thomas Klikauer
Analysis & reports
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Many, if not most, universities have become managed, neo-liberalized, managerialized, and very toxic places. Since the advent of neoliberalism – when Thatcher ‘married’ Reagan during the 1980s and this ideology infected universities – university apparatchiks [аппаратчик] have been working very...

France at war

Jerzy Szygiel
Democracy
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“I am confident that Ukraine will turn things around and win this war. This will happen in the next few weeks. We don't brag about our accomplishments, but rest assured that you will hear about...

German capitalism needs its Green Party

Thomas Klikauer
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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And there is nothing new about this. During the previous participation by the Greens in a coalition with the SPD, from 1998 to 2005, the Greens were just as neo-liberal and war-mongering as this time....

From Belarus, with love…

Maciej Wiśniowski
Belarus
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A postcard from Minsk. The sculpture Unbowed Man by Sergei Selikhanov at the Khatyn Memorial site in Belarus. It depicts Yuzif Kaminsky, the only adult to survive the Khatyn massacre of March 22 1943, in...

NATO and the Construction of the Enemy

Marga Ferré
Analysis
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Marga Ferré, Co-President of transform! europe, comments on the NATO-led western militarisation and analyses its ideological foundation. In this context, she points out the construction of the "other" as the enemy and racial supremacy, which...

Ovidiu Țichindeleanu: Who speaks for our region?

Vladimir Mitev
Bulgaria
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Interview with the Romanian philosopher about non-alignment as an option for the East of the European continent, regional internationalism and popular sovereignty. Originally published at Cross-Border Talks. Ovidiu Țichindeleanu is a philosopher and cultural theorist,...

Will the forthcoming elections spell the end for Bosnia and Herzegovina?

Boyan Stanislavski
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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In the shadow of Ukraine's ongoing conflict, the West's ‘handicapped child’ in the Balkans may be about to simmer down for good. While the international public is preoccupied with the whirlwinds of the Ukrainian war,...

NATO seeks to prevent Eurasian challenger to US world dominance, admits ex CIA chief Mike Pompeo

Benjamin Norton
Analysis & reports
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Neoconservative ex CIA Director and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo admitted NATO seeks to prevent a “Russian-Chinese axis” and “pan-Eurasian colossus,” in a new cold war over "economic hegemony." Neoconservative former CIA Director and...