Thomas Fazi

“Green” policies are simply the latest cover to pursue a specific agri-food model: an increasingly centralised, concentrated, globalised model centred around a few mega-farms. Read here.

The inevitable right-populist surge in the upcoming European elections and why this won’t lead to the cataclysmic change than many fear — or hope for. 

I’ve written for UnHerd about the US government’s war on TikTok and what it’s really all about (hint: it’s not about national security).

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has a new report out claiming that “[s]everal Russian financial, economic, and military indicators suggest that Russia is preparing for a large-scale conventional conflict with NATO, not imminently but likely on a shorter timeline than what some Western analysts have initially posited”. A closer look at the report in question, however, raises serious questions about its claims.

Using Palestinians as human lab rats for the Israeli arms industry is a morally repugnant practice in itself. But there’s an even darker side to this story, which most people ignore — partly because Israel has gone to great lengths to cover its tracks — and that is the fact that Israel, especially since 1967, has used its weapons industry to arm and support some of the most brutal regimes of the second half of the twentieth century. Aside from the United States, no other single country has contributed to the repression and suppression of democracy and left-wing popular movements around the world as much as Israel has. Read here.

Why are so many MAGA-conservatives attracted to Milei? In strictly political-economic terms, it shows that conservatives, particularly in the US, still very much live in the shadow of Reaganism: they adhere to a cartoonish form of libertarianism, where the state is the source of all evil and oppression, while the self-regulating market — or “true capitalism” — is framed as a promised land capable of delivering freedom and prosperity. This is tragically naïve.

Over the course of the past decades, the process of European economic and monetary integration has significantly — almost entirely, I would say — hollowed out the national sovereignty of European countries. But does this mean in concrete terms? What have been the concrete effects of this loss of sovereignty, especially in light of recent events, first and foremost the still-ongoing war in Ukraine? Read here.

For most of us, being hounded by robot dogs or chased by killer drones is the stuff of nightmares — or dystopian sci-fi films à la Black Mirror. For Gazans, it’s an everyday reality.

The panicked reaction of the establishment shows just how fearful elites are of the people. Read here.

I’ve written for UnHerd about NATO’s dangerous military escalation against Russia. Over the past few days, we’ve had Macron raise the possibility of sending NATO troops to Ukraine, Scholz confirm that Western specials troops are already in Ukraine — and actively participating in the targeting and firing of Western missiles on Russian targets, as the New York Times reported —, Stoltenberg say that NATO has given Ukraine the green light to use Western-supplied F-16s to strike targets in Russia, and NATO begin its largest military exercise in Europe since the Cold War. Meanwhile, in recent months, we have witnessed a sustained propaganda campaign aimed at convincing European citizens that Russia is bent on invading Europe at some point in the more-or-less-near future — even though there’s absolutely no evidence to support this. This is terrifyingly dangerous behaviour on NATO’s behalf: we are literally being dragged into an all-out war with Russia without even the hint of a public debate.