The U.S. has hit a new borrowing milestone, while debt as a share of GDP nears levels last seen during World War II Yanis Varoufakis: There’s no Escape from This (with Richard D. Wolff). The Econoclasts By Sam Goldfarb and Matt Grossman Gross U.S. debt has surpassed $40 trillion, a new milestone in the country’s struggle to… Read More U.S. Debt Just Topped $40 Trillion: How We Got Here
Pravin Sawhney on the collapse of Indian diplomacy NB: Many of us still don’t understand that this is an RSS government (the Sangh has many faces); and that it has no politics except (1) the rectification of history (i.e. defeating the Mughal Empire three centuries after its demise); and (2) grabbing control of public funds… Read More Pravin Sawhney: India Is No Longer Useful For America Geopolitically, Strategically & Militarily (June 18, 2026)
Unpacking Trump’s End Game in Latin America with William Callison and Verónica Gago Source: PATTERNS by Naomi Klein Naomi Klein, William Callison, and Verónica Gago Jul 30, 2026 Several readers of this newsletter have asked us to cover the attacks on democracy in Latin America. With that in mind, this week, I am thrilled to share Patterns’ first… Read More The Goal is a Fascist Continent
In the words of the Swedish Academy, he “uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression’s closed rooms.” The United States supported and in many cases engendered every right wing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the Second World War. I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti,… Read More Harold Pinter: Nobel Prize lecture; 2005
Two Female Israeli Soldiers Die by Suicide in the Past Two Days Full text of the letter “We Refuse!” Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance Israeli High School Seniors Continue to Go to Prison Instead of Into the Israeli Military. According to a July 29, 2026 article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, two women Israeli soldiers have died… Read More Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Mental Health Crisis Deepens
By Pranshu Verma In a late-June meeting with more than a dozen of the nation’s top defense technology firms, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an urgent message: The Pentagon needed their help to rapidly replenish America’s weapons arsenal. Outside the room, the United States was mired in a conflict with Iran that was rapidly depleting U.S.… Read More A shrinking weapons stockpile is testing the Pentagon’s sweeping new strategy
Aslı Bâli and Samuel Moyn America is in decline. And so is Pax America: the American-led world order. While there are many genuine dangers of American decline, there has never been a better chance to say clearly how much the unipolar order always left to be desired, and to imagine a multipolar world that might secure… Read More What should replace the American-led world order?
Edward Luce “Tweets don’t overturn signed agreements,” said a Saudi official last week. Amid America’s broiling ocean of surrealism, being instructed by a dynastic autocracy on the sanctity of the contract stands out. Donald Trump had claimed to amend a US-Saudi nuclear deal on his Truth Social site the day after it was signed. That… Read More Trump’s waning sway over the world
Once you learn what the “uni-context” is, you won’t stop seeing it everywhere Derek Thompson Here are some questions that I consider self-evidently compelling about the modern world: Why is the news media so interested in telling you how much the world sucks all the time? Why are so many of us obsessed with distraction… Read More A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird
As the far right fulminates about who ‘belongs’ in Britain, let’s remember Fritz Lustig, who arrived here in 1939, just months before war broke out. Initially jailed as an ‘enemy alien’, he played a vital role in a top-secret military intelligence unit Robin Lustig When the Nazis came to power in Germany in January 1933, Fritz Lustig,… Read More My father, the German refugee who fought the Nazis as a ‘secret listener’
