DW—The discussion between (Profs.) Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson presents a comprehensive and critical analysis of contemporary geopolitics, focusing on the Middle East, particularly the Strait of Hormuz, Iran-U.S. relations, and the broader context of declining Western colonialism and empire. They debunk the notion of an imminent peace deal between the U.S. and Iran, emphasizing that existing political and military dynamics make any practical agreement impossible. The U.S. stance on Iran’s nuclear ambitions is portrayed as a pretext for maintaining hegemonic control, especially over Middle Eastern oil, which remains central to U.S. foreign policy.

INDRAJIT—This ghettoization seems less obvious now that ‘Israel’ is relatively rich, but they’re just ghetto fabulous. The constant shooting has never stopped, and Jews are increasingly ostracized from the White spaces they crave inclusion in. In sports, music, and commerce they face increasing boycotts and open derision. Not because of ‘antisemitism’, but because of what they’ve actually done to actual Semites. ‘Israel’ is thus an increasingly distant ghetto to Europe and an absolutely hated (albeit rich) ghetto wedged into West Asia.

T. FAZI—The risk of an all-out conflict between NATO and Russia is higher than it’s ever been — even at the height of the Cold War — given how deeply the two sides are now entangled in what is, in every operational sense, an increasingly direct military confrontation, even if the fiction of non-belligerence is still formally maintained. Unlike during the Cold War, when the superpowers maintained elaborate protocols designed to prevent direct confrontation, the lines today are blurred to the point of near-invisibility. A war that was supposed to be contained within Ukraine’s borders has steadily metastasised into something far more dangerous: a proxy conflict in which NATO’s role has become so operationally central that the distinction between proxy and principal has largely collapsed, and in which each week brings fresh evidence that the escalatory logic is running well ahead of any political capacity to control it.

BL—For many people in the United States the heart of America was the Founding Father’s Enlightenment: The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and the Bill of Rights. But as  Barry Alan Shain wrote in his book The Myth of American Individualism, America was a deeply protestant country way before the end of the 18thcentury. This article is not only about the legacy of Protestant of the United States but also the Jewish interpretation of the Old Testament that the Puritans drew from.

VP—Revolutionary governments inherit structures shaped over generations by ancient hierarchies of caste and tribe that govern agrarian relations, by colonial humiliation and expropriation, and by total social deprivation. The Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union, for instance, discovered quickly that the old tsarist bureaucratic culture did not disappear in October 1917. Corruption, deference to authority, and distrust of collective institutions persisted for years. In China after the 1949 Revolution, the Communist Party repeatedly confronted the remnants of Confucian hierarchy, regional patronage systems, and peasant survival habits formed through centuries of insecurity. In Cuba after 1959, the revolutionary leadership spoke openly of creating a ‘new human being’ because they understood that socialist consciousness could not be legislated overnight.