The Gig Economy Project speaks to gig economy experts Antonio Aloisi, Tim Christiaens and Jessica Pidoux about the EU’s new regulation of platform work. The Gig Economy Project is a BRAVE NEW EUROPE media network [...]
The EU is being hijacked by the neo-liberal project and must be stopped. That however does no mean that it cannot play an important role in Europe. Wolfgang Streeck is Senior Research Associate at the [...]
Israel doesn’t know it yet, but it is well on its way to becoming a pariah state. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and speaker on the [...]
There is a ‘new mood’ in the global south, where it is increasingly clearly that US hegemony cannot be relied on and a new paradigm is necessary for humanity. Chu Guofei, Social Sciences in China [...]
US corporations are raking in big profits, but the future does not look so rosy for American capitalism. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog [...]
I spent the last week at the UN, trying to ram home some truths about the Assange case as input to the UN’s Periodic Review (every 7 years) of the UK’s human rights record, in [...]
Loose talk about Western boots on the ground in Ukraine is a sign of panic and insanely risky, too. Tarik Cyril Amar (@TarikCyrilAmar) is a historian from Germany, currently at Koç University, Istanbul, expert on [...]
Why is the same western media obsessively reheating five-month-old allegations against Hamas so reluctant to focus on Israel’s current, horrifying atrocities? Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a [...]
Book Review by Branko Milanović Vladislav M. Zubok’s splendid “Collapse” is a chronicle of the break-up of the Soviet Union. It opens with the appointment of Yuri Andropov in 1985 and ends at Christmas 1991 [...]