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Les Macdonald

Les Macdonald

Pearls and Irritations

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BRICS and the end of the dollar

The upcoming BRICS summit in Kazan on October 22nd to 24th may well accelerate the beginning of the end of the dollar as the world currency. This...

14.10.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Les Macdonald

Israel and Iran: Orwell’s ‘memory hole’ and the origins of the present situation

The propensity of the West, and Israel for that matter has been to impose a forced forgetting on the rest of the world. Each event that occurs in the...

07.10.2024 8

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Les Macdonald

Building a new global economic order: The role of BRICS

Over the past few decades, the Western economic system has shifted increasingly towards financialisation, prioritising the creation of paper wealth...

29.09.2024 10

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Les Macdonald

Delusion and defeat in Ukraine

As the war in Ukraine heads into its third winter, Western leaders appear to be sinking further every day into a delusional belief in the success of...

23.09.2024 20

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Les Macdonald

AUKUS could be the biggest Ponzi scheme in history

Much of the angst being generated by Australia’s worst foreign policy decision since joining the American invasion of Vietnam may well be misplaced....

06.09.2024 10

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Les Macdonald

Returning to a democracy where strength of conviction shapes policy

We may be beginning a return to the original Athenian democracy where strength of conviction and argumentation shaped policy rather than outdated...

18.08.2024 7

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Silos are for grain, not for National policies

One of the characteristic features of modern western democracies is, as John Ralston Saul has pointed out, that it has focused on the development of...

21.07.2024 10

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Les Macdonald

Are our policy makers Voltaire’s illegitimate children ?

Aged care and disability services bureaucratic elites seem increasingly to work in ways that are divorced from morality and common sense and removed...

20.05.2024 40

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