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Month: October 2017

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Ivan Horrocks – Ideology not money is why affordable NHS healthcare is not a proposition

October 18, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The crisis in the health services in many European nations has nothing to do with deficits and government debt. Austerity is a weapon to destroy social programmes, including health, not to improve them. Ivan Horrocks is […]

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Fintan O’Toole: The lie that poverty is a moral failing was buried a century ago. Now it’s back 

October 18, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

We live again in a world of Victorian values risen from the graves in which Shaw and the other great anti-Victorians buried them. We live again in a world where the rich pleasure themselves with the […]

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George Monbiot: Referendums get a bad press – but to fix Britain, we need more of them

October 18, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

650 parliamentarians decide for 66 million Britons. Elections are years apart. Is that really democracy asks George Monbiot. There must be a way to improve this system: referendums. The sort of referendum used for Brexit […]

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Mat Hope – How 25 Metres of Country Road Became England’s Fracking Frontline

October 17, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Mat Hope of DeSmog UK travels to Lancashire and reports about the protests against fracking there. By Mat Hope, éditor of DeSmog UK Cross-posted from DeSmog UK     “There’s something happening,” Nick tells me. […]

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Kelle Louaillier: Smoking Out Big Tobacco

October 17, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Recent investigations have provided damning evidence of what those in the public health community have known for decades: Big Tobacco, in its relentless pursuit of profit, works hard to block and weaken consumer protections. It […]

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Lars P. Syll – Microeconomic aggregation problems

October 17, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Syll Looks at why orthodox economics, based on absurd assumptions, has completely lost its way and credibility. Lars P. Syll is an economist at the Faculty of Education and Society at Malmö, Sweden Cross-posted from Syll’s […]

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The Guardian: Malta car bomb kills Panama Papers journalist

October 17, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

We do not know who is responsible for this murder, but it says a lot about the deteriorating state of democracy in the EU as the political and business elite come under increasing pressure due […]

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David Shirreff – Brexit damage limitation

October 16, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

There is so much white noise in the media concerning Brexit, almost all of it by people who have no idea of what is really going on behind the scenes. David Shirreff tries to make […]

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New Weather Institute: The absent and violent corporation

October 16, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Human beings, so used to ‘the customer is always right,’ are now to be bled from every angle and then treated as  costs to be cut rather than assets to be cosseted. Read here  

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The Guardian: Young people are borrowing to cover basic living costs, warns City watchdog

October 16, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The economic situation of young people between 18 and 34 in Britain is deteriorating. Their indebtedness and over-indebtedness are increasing rapidly, but not because they are necessarily living beyond their means, but simply to meet essential […]

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Reviewed by Branko Milanovic´ This new splendid and beautifully-written book by Rana Dasgupta has as its title After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order. The idea, briefly sketched in the introduction and […]

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Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia – A Critical History by Marko Grdešić and Mislav Žitko

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