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Les Macdonald

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Humpty Dumpty and the Rules Based International Order

Humpty Dumpty and the Rules Based International Order
19.01.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Les Macdonald

The Hannibal Directive and mainstream media’s organised forgetting

Aeschylus (525-456BC) was, as current circumstances in the Middle East and in Ukraine amply demonstrate, entirely accurate when he observed that...

03.01.2025 4

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Les Macdonald

Western Media: an echo chamber for the US “Uighur Genocide” narrative

Let me directly address the narrative pushed by the United States and its allies regarding the alleged “genocide” of Uighurs in China’s...

20.12.2024 2

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For whom the bell tolls: The rise and fall of the US empire

“No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the...

05.12.2024 10

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A new global economic order

Over recent decades, the Western economic system has undergone a profound transformation, veering increasingly toward financialisation—a...

21.11.2024 2

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Les Macdonald

The “Rules based International order”- illusion and reality

US and Australian politicians frequently refer to the rules based international order when attacking the actions of “official enemies”. Most...

10.11.2024 4

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Western Democracy is not the only option

We in the West have a propensity noted by the rest of the world, to be rather self-congratulatory about our political and economic systems and our...

06.11.2024 3

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Les Macdonald

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 1

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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...

07.10.2024 3

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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 2

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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...

23.09.2024 10

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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...

06.09.2024 2

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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 1

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Les Macdonald

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...

21.07.2024 1

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Les Macdonald