State bodies responsible for protecting public safety and the environment have been told that their primary focus must be ...

Prior to the onset of the wave, a vast pool of capital lies idle, waiting for channels of profit and investment to open. Then ...

The IAEA inspectors know full well that there are no nuclear weapons. They have simply been acting as willing spies for the ...

The expansion of the war from Palestine to Iran, which began on 13 June, signals an Israeli obsession persisting for four decades. As the Trump administration was negotiating in bad faith with Iran ...

The Israeli assault on Iran – launched as the genocide against the Palestinian people grinds on – follows a grimly familiar script. As with its previous campaigns in Lebanon and Gaza, Israel is ...

Plaything for the rich Not all rich men were early motorists, but most early motorists were rich men. Rudyard Kipling, who settled in Sussex in the late eighteen-nineties after the commercial success ...

Fail better. This is Lenin at his Beckettian best, foreshadowing the line from Worstward Ho: ‘Try again.Fail again. Fail better.’ footnote 2 His conclusion—to begin from the beginning—makes it clear ...

I. From Briggs to Flint. The original period of the cio ’s formation—1933–37—has been incomparably better studied than its wartime expansion; yet at the same time, the historiography of this heroic ...

F riedrich Engels famously spent his working life in the shadow of Karl Marx, a position he now occupies for posterity, and one in which he willingly placed himself. footnote 1 Born in 1820 in the ...

Experiments with history . See the beauty of distant reading plus world literature: they go against the grain of national historiography. And they do so in the form of an experiment.You define a unit ...