Christopher Soelistyo
Reading "Economists with Guns" by Bradley Simpson
In the early/mid-1960s, U.S. policymakers saw Sukarno's Indonesia shifting dangerously to the left. The government was aligning with the...
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Christopher Soelistyo
- Jan 7
- 6 min
Kicking away the Chinese ladder
Since early 2018, the United States has imposed a series of tariffs and sanctions on China in a bid to rectify the yawning trade...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Jan 6
- 16 min
Artificial Intelligence: The Technology of Social Control?
Introduction The rapid spread of COVID-19 in the spring of 2020 brought a massive shock to societies and economies across the world. As...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Jan 2
- 6 min
Yemen, or the British arms sales we prefer to ignore
As American police fought to quell the nationwide protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd, on June 2, Emily Thornberry gave the...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Jan 2
- 6 min
Militants: Pakistan's Catch-22
This article was originally published on UCL Pi Media in December 2019: https://uclpimedia.com/online/militants-pakistans-catch-22 It has...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Dec 30, 2022
- 15 min
Reading "Who Lost Russia?" by Peter Conradi
Sunday Times editor Peter Conradi has written an accessible, engaging and comprehensive account of U.S.-Russian relations from the...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Dec 10, 2022
- 20 min
Reading "The Killing Season" by Geoffrey Robinson
The anti-leftist purge in Indonesia in 1965-66, which resulted in half a million dead and a million detained without trial, has received...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Nov 11, 2022
- 24 min
Reading "The Economic Weapon" by Nicholas Mulder
The Economic Weapon is a fascinating and highly reaable account of the birth of the modern economic sanctions, a tool, short of war yet...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Nov 11, 2022
- 18 min
Reading "Tomorrow, the World" by Stephen Wertheim
This book by historian Stephen Wertheim is an impassioned account of the emergence of US global military dominance after World War II....
Christopher Soelistyo
- Jul 7, 2022
- 36 min
Reading "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" by Rashid Khalidi
This book by Palestinian-American historian Rashid Khalidi is an attempt to cast the entirety of Zionist and Israeli history as a...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Jun 18, 2022
- 39 min
Reading "Not One Inch" by Mary E. Sarotte
This book is incredibly timely. Published just three months before Russia invaded Ukraine this February, "Not One Inch: America, Russia...
Christopher Soelistyo
- May 9, 2022
- 13 min
America: Ukraine's Armourer
Since the Russian invasion began on February 24th, military assistance to Ukraine from NATO member states has been impressive. The West...
Christopher Soelistyo
- May 3, 2022
- 10 min
War and Inflation
The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24th has delivered a massive shock to global markets, especially concerning such commodities...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Apr 21, 2022
- 21 min
Reading "Shutdown" by Adam Tooze
The Covid pandemic is the global crisis par excellence. Rarely, if ever, before had a singular event impacted so many people across the...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Apr 17, 2022
- 4 min
Ukraine: Financial War Against Russia
Since Russian forces invaded Ukraine on February 24th, the West has fought back with a devastating raft of economic and financial...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Apr 12, 2022
- 27 min
Reading "London Calling" by Alban Webb
Written by Broadcasting historian Alban Webb, London Calling: Britain, the BBC World Service and the Cold War is an eye-opening portrayal...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Mar 9, 2022
- 17 min
Ukraine: The "NATO Enlargement" Question
On February 24th, Vladimir Putin's Russia launched a war of aggression against Ukraine, under the strange pretexts of "genocide" against...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Mar 7, 2022
- 54 min
Reading "Imperial Brain Trust" by Laurence Shoup and William Minter
Who controls American foreign policy? The answer, according to Shoup and Minter, is a concentrated subsection of American society,...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Jan 29, 2022
- 25 min
Why is Ukraine the West's Fault?: Transcribing John Mearsheimer
For at least two months now, tensions between Russia and the West have ignited over a Russian military buildup on the borders of Ukraine,...
Christopher Soelistyo
- Jan 5, 2022
- 58 min
Reading "The Wages of Destruction" by Adam Tooze
How was it possible that for the second time in a generation, Germany should have embarked on a campaign of conquest and destruction,...
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