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Trailer: The Spider’s Web

October 27, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire (Official Trailer) The British Empire still persists – in the guise of the City of London. This is where the real power lies. In their documentary “The Spider´s Web” […]

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Investigate Europe – Europe’s new reserve army

October 26, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Millions of Europeans in temporary, part-time or bogus self-employed contracts can only find insecure and badly paid jobs, despite the healthy economic climate. That is the price of deregulating labour markets, Investigate Europe reports. This […]

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DeSmog UK – Irish Government to be Taken to Court over Climate Change

October 26, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is an interesting step: A legal challenge against the Irish Government to force it to effectively to reduce Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions. By Kyla Mandel,  Deputy Editor of DeSmog UK Cross-posted from DeSmog UK   […]

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Aditya Chakrabortty: A Labour council attacking its own people? This is regeneration gone bad

October 26, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is a continuation in our series of articles concerning what neo-liberalism looks like from the ground. This time it concerns a “social housing” project in London. Read here  

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Richard Murphy: The EU Competition Commissioner’s welcome move against UK government tax abuse

October 26, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

It appears the EU is to investigate into a British government scheme that may help multinational corporations pay less tax. Read here  

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Tax Justice Network – The story of a tax haven: Cyprus

October 26, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Its a long read, but gives a good overview of Cyprus as an EU tax haven. Read here  

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The Guardian: World’s witnessing a new Gilded Age as billionaires’ wealth swells to $6tn

October 26, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Billionaires increased their combined global wealth by almost a fifth last year to a record $6tn (£4.5tn) – more than twice the GDP of the UK. There are now 1,542 dollar billionaires across the world. […]

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Corporate Europe Observatory – Carmageddon: EU driving financial markets the wrong way

October 26, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The EU is about to adopt new rules that will help trade in securitised loans, the very financial instruments that were a main cause the 2008 financial crisis. Despite warning signs of a new ‘subprime […]

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Heiner Flassbeck – Thank god, it’s over

October 25, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Wolfgang Schäuble is no longer Finance Minister of Germany – and de facto of Europe. Following eight years of misguided and destructive policy Europe is trying to extricate itself from Schäuble’s failed legacy. The very […]

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George Monbiot: Look to Sheffield: this is how state and corporate power subverts democracy

October 25, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The destructiveness and reach of neo-liberalism is made clear in this piece by George Monbiot. It is a question of felling some trees in the city of Sheffield in the UK, but one can see […]

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Book Review by Branko Milanović Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian’s The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform is a book about how China transformed itself between the Great Leap Forward and the early […]

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Germany’s Jewish Problem: Genocides Past and Present by Wieland Hoban

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Reviewed by Raymond Deane On 30 January, Uwe Becker – the so-called commissioner for Jewish life and the fight against anti-Semitism in the German state of Hesse – demanded that the organization Jewish Voice for […]

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