Adam Tooze from Chartbook How World War II forged a liberal (Keynesian) view of government in the United States – Alan Brinkley’s classic account Alvin hansen had been one of the principal economic advisers to the New Deal for nearly three years when he traveled to Cincinnati in March 1940 to speak to a group… Read More Alan Brinkley on World War II and American Keynesianism
Indian media estimate the deals could total $10 billion and are expected to focus on air defense systems against missiles and drones. ‘The mini-war with Pakistan last year led to a shift. India woke up’ Hagai Amit In July 2017, when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his first visit to Israel, he and Prime… Read More The Multibillion-dollar Arms Deals Driving India’s Modi’s Visit to Israel
Marco Rubio asks Europe to help US recolonize Global South (lecture to Munich Security Conference) BIG PROBLEMS TO DISCHARGE THE PLANNED U.S. ATTACK ON IRAN has a hitch: most of the missile-targeting crew are queuing for toilets on the lead vessel, the USS Gerald R Ford. This is not a joke. A set of emails… Read More Marco Rubio on Western civilization… (but the American empire can’t get its shit together)
Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania chooses not to claim prize at ‘Cinema for Peace’ gathering in Berlin Six-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab was killed along with five relatives and two medics sent to rescue her during an Israeli tank attack in Gaza City on January 29, 2024. (Photo: family photo) Berk Kutay Gokmen The director… Read More Director of ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ declines ‘Most Valuable Film’ award
DANIEL A. MÉTRAUX Tora! Tora! Tora! provides a powerful visual image of the Pearl Harbor crisis. We are given a highly unique presence in Tokyo as the Japanese plan their mode of attack, but unfortunately, the movie’s attention is focused almost exclusively on the attack on Pearl Harbor. The truth is that Pearl Harbor was only… Read More Tora! Tora! Tora!
There was a massacre in Israel. In Gaza, there was a genocide. Gideon Levy In the first months following October 7, I constantly used the term massacre to describe what had happened. What I saw with my own eyes as I wandered through the southern border area with photographer Alex Levac could only be defined… Read More To Honor the Memory of Those Massacred on October 7, Israelis Must Recognize Their Actions in Gaza
At a time when Black military history is being rewritten under Trump officials, new book The War Within a War provides a vital reminder Martin Pengelly Wil Haygood’s new book, his 10th, is The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home. Meeting in Washington DC to discuss it, he produces from… Read More ‘A white man’s war, a Black man’s fight’: the eye-opening story of Black soldiers in Vietnam
From destroying calories to ‘re-engineering’ society, data and experts reveal how the hunger in Gaza was not a byproduct of war, but a calculated strategy that reached its deadliest peak in 2025. Mohammad Mansour A malnourished Palestinian child is examined at al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on June… Read More Starvation by design: How Israel turned food into a weapon of war in Gaza
Leaving this world in an age of lies and cruelty, my last message is simple: don’t give up on truth Carlos Hernández Photo: Alberto Di Lolli Dear reader, for the first time since I became a journalist, I have to tell you I wish you weren’t reading what I’ve written. Because if you’re reading this,… Read More If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway A story of love and pain, loyalty and desertion, this classic edition of A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable tale of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse set against the backdrop of World War I.Written when Ernest Hemingway… Read More Four classics on the Great War
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