Trump’s threat to Greenland is an emergency, and it must be treated as one. This is not just a territorial dispute. It is a deliberately
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What can you do now about the US threat to the world?
I was asked this question on the blog this morning: I agree that the power here lies with Europe to formulate a coordinated, strong response.
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Will a US Treasury sell off work?
I was asked this question on the blog yesterday: Would a mass sell off of US Treasuries by EU and others put pressure back on
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Saying ‘please’ nicely is not going to work with Trump
This comes from the Mail, yesterday afternoon: President Donald Trump is preparing to counter Chinese influence in Canada as his ‘Donroe Doctrine’ for the Western Hemisphere expands beyond Latin
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Denmark’s real defence mechanism is its pharmaceutical trade
If Trump chooses to threaten Denmark militarily over Greenland, Denmark cannot respond militarily. It does not have the scale. But it does have the sort
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MMT is not theory: it’s fact
I offer this video on MMT this morning without apology. I know I have tackled this issue before now, but this, I think, is my
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Do we succumb to the politics of might, or choose the politics of care?
It would be terribly convenient to suggest that Donald Trump is mad; that his breaches of international law can be ignored; that his threats of
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Why think about defence?
There is a reason why I had to spend some time thinking about a potential European response to a threat from the USA over Greenland
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Can Europe rise to the US challenge?
Recent statements by Trump’s regime in the USA concerning territorial claims on Greenland, backed now with threats of tariffs on all states that object to
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