Russian Impressions
The Kant 300 Conference and Reflections on life in Kaliningrad. Also published on Real Left's substack. Please consider subscribing if you haven't already. My wife and I are in Kaliningrad, Russia...
Israel-Hamas and the Great Reset
Najm Al-Dīn argues the genocide in Gaza has economic as well as political goals. By causing a new supply crisis it hastens the shift towards a “circular ” economy controlled from the centre by corporations, and in the longer term Israel may intend to turn Gaza into a new trade corridor to supplant the Suez canal and guarantee its place as a global power.
Kant’s Perpetual Peace (1795) and the Russia – Ukraine/NATO conflict
Bert Olivier considers the Russia-Ukraine conflict through the frame of Immanuel’s Kant conditions for Perpetual Peace to discern the likelihood of World peace being realised in the modern age.
Covid and Ukraine: Ctrl-C Ctrl-V (Part 2)
Part 2 of Phil Shannon’s comparison of the Covid hysteria and the current situation in Ukraine.
Covid and Ukraine: Ctrl-C Ctrl-V (Part 1)
Phil Shannon compares the Covid hysteria with the current Ukraine situation.