Pepe Escobar’s new book Raging Twenties: Great Power Politics Meets Techno-Feudalism tells the story of a new phase of the U.S. empire.
PEPE ESCOBAR: The Raging Twenties: A New Map of Dystopia
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MI-5 Whistleblower Annie Machon Wins 2021 Sam Adams Award; Prof. Stephen Cohen to be Honored
The winner of the 2021 Sam Adams Award will be announced at the World Ethical Data Forum, which runs from Wednesday through Friday.
Neoliberalism Was Born in Chile & Will Die in Chile
Vijay Prashad talks with Daniel Jadue, the mayor of Recoleta — in the expanding capital of Santiago — about his city’s experiment in rebuilding the public sector.
Greenwashing Acts of Land-Grabbing
It would seem that the purpose of this land-grabbing “green” fuel, first and foremost, is to purify the collective conscience of the West, writes Phoebe Holmes.
WATCH: Home Run for Assange
John Shipton is on a tour around Australia rallying support for his son, Julian Assange. Consortium News was in Sydney and streamed live from Canberra for Shipton’s Home Run event.
Into the Memory Hole
Erasure or sublimation of memory makes it easier to shape the present by controlling or editing history. Doing so preserves a mythic version of a country’s identity, postulates Michael Brenner.
The Blob Insists on Clinging to an Obsolete Past
The United States needs to recognize that the 20th century is gone for good, writes Andrew J. Bacevich.
UK Tops Moscow Military Spending & Offers Nurses 1% Raise
When inflation is taken into account, it represents a pay cut, Phil Miller reports. Meanwhile, Russia is 70 times the size and has more than twice as many inhabitants.
The Truth is a Joke Zionism Can’t Accept
Lawrence Davidson considers the conflation of an ethnocentric political ideology with Judaism, a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural religion.
Markel’s Royal Row, Like Spencer’s, Will Ensure Nothing Changes
What the Oprah interview does – is designed to do – is derail the intersection of class and race in politically damaging ways, writes Jonathan Cook.