Category: Geopolitics

Violence and Terror in Chiapas Facilitate Dispossession of Territories Say Activists

Violence and Terror in Chiapas Facilitate Dispossession of Territories Say Activists San CristĂłbal de Las Casas, Chiapas. In the face of the plundering of peoples’ territories by the “capitalist hydra”; the deprivation of liberty in prisons that are “spaces of extermination”; what they call the “development pole on […]

On globalism and immigration

winter oak Read on blog or Reader On globalism and immigration By winter oak on February 4, 2025 by Paul Cudenec Somebody commented on my article “The British population is under attack” that I had not made any mention of immigration. The first point to make in response, I suppose, […]

Lula and Bolsonaro and Dilma and Lula

Sponsored by the University of California Press For our February 27 issue, Christopher de Bellaigue traveled to Brazil in order to document how, in a decade in which one president was impeached, another was imprisoned after leaving office, and a third fomented an attempted coup, “the politicization of the law […]

Influence

The audience will note the following…… Niccolo Soldo Feb 04, 2025 Share This Substack is definitely not the biggest, but it pound for pound it punches well above its weight when it comes to influence. I would never divulge the names of any subscribers (unless they personally ask […]

Double Government

Recently at The Signal: Steven Levitsky on why people around the world voted out incumbents last year. … Today: What exactly do U.S. President Donald Trump and his inner circle have in mind when they say they’re taking on the “deep state”? Hugh Wilford on the specter of an […]

Against the Europe of Nations

by Jean Thiriart Arktos Journal Dec 15, 2023 Jean Thiriart challenges conventional ideas of nationalism, advocating a united and dynamic Europe, transcending past divisions and forging a collective destiny beyond the constraints of traditional national identities. The following is excerpted from Jean Thiriart’s Europe: An Empire of 400 […]

Russia’s Losing Liberals

Sponsored by Bloomsbury Gary Saul Morson With Liberals Like These Twice in modern Russian history—in 1905 and in 1985—liberal reformers have gained influence only to be succeeded by autocratic regimes. Advertisement Nicole Flattery The House of Self-Worth In Halle Butler’s third novel, Banal Nightmare, the real enemy is the […]

With Hardship Comes Ease

A poem for Palestine, hope, and hardship! Ahmad Ibsais Jan 30, 2025 With Hardship Comes Ease Have We not lifted from you your burden That weighed heavy upon your shoulders? And raised high your remembrance Through every broken window and door? For indeed, with hardship comes ease – […]

Silicon Fen? More Like Silicon Fantasy

30 January, 2025 Sebastian Wang Rachel Reeves plans to create a “British Silicon Valley” between Oxford and Cambridge. Forgive me if I don’t get excited. This is yet another example of political grandstanding masquerading as visionary policymaking. It’s a headline-grabber, designed to make us forget that Britain’s economy […]

Romania’s Voided TikTok Election

How a mischievous social media campaign backfired and led to the first scratched vote in EU history. Jan 28, 2025 Romanian presidential candidate Calin Georgescu prepares to give a statement to media on November 26, 2024 on the outskirts of Bucharest, Romania. Photo by Andrei Pungovschi/Getty Images. Romania’s […]

Vive la Résistance!

Sponsored by the University of California Press De Gaulle, always determined to give the world his version of the great events in which he had been involved, recounts the first of these salvations in The War Memoirs. This work—originally published in three volumes between 1954 and 1959—is justly celebrated for its […]