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Heiner Flassbeck and Michael Paetz – Germany’s metal workers’ union: Making a success out of failure

February 12, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

In Germany there is currently a tendency to portray defeats as victories. The attempted grand coalition is an excellent example. According to Heiner Flassbeck and Michael Paetz the same is true of the much heralded […]

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EU politics

New Weather Institute – Crapitalism: & the alternatives to ‘big’ outsourcing

February 12, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Taking back power means taking back control of the ecnomic system. Privatisation has stolen public wealth and is now leaving behind a bill as well, such as for unpaid pension contributions and taxes. Lindsay Mackie […]

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Corruption

Tax Justice Network – The 2018 Financial Secrecy Index

February 12, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Financial Secrecy index is a politically neutral ranking, the only one available to aid genuine understanding of global financial secrecy, tax havens or secrecy jurisdictions, and illicit financial flows or capital flight.  

Climate Crisis

Will big business destroy our planet? By Peter Dauvergne

February 11, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Kieran Cooke Big business says it’s leading the world to a sustainable future. But a new book says that’s a highly implausible claim. Transnational corporations, or TNCs, or just plain big business, […]

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Positive Money – LATEST WEALTH DATA SHOWS DISPROPORTIONATE GAINS TO THE RICH DURING ERA OF QE

February 11, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Lies, damned lies, and statistics. Mark Carney, the Bank of England’s Governor misused data to claim  that in Britain the “poorest have gained the most” from the Bank’s quantitative easing programme. The newest statistics prove […]

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Finance

Tax Justice Network – ICRICT ‘roadmap’ for taxing multinationals

February 11, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Tax evasion is not going away. Transnational agencies seem to have little interest in implementing rules and laws to change this. The ICRICT makes cocnrete proposals for the next step in the fight against tay […]

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Climate Crisis

Aled Jones – The EU wants to fight climate change – so why is it spending billions on a gas pipeline?

February 11, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The EU wants to fight climate change – so why is it spending billions on a gas pipeline? Albinfo/Wikipedia, CC BY Aled Jones, Anglia Ruskin University Over the past few years there has been exponential […]

Fake News

James Cusick and Crina Boros: How a GM giant ‘bought control’ of what millions of Londoners read

February 11, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Paid journalism. This problem is increasing. As media’s sole concern is profit, the product becomes irrelevant. Thus the demise of corporate media and their calls for state support Read here  

Finance

New Economics Foundation: THE UNHEARD STORIES OF PRECARIOUS WORK

February 11, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Outsourcing and the gig economy have become modern slavery. It is very convenient to ignore because it is cheap and hidden. Except for those who have to earn their living from it. Read here  

EU politics

Renegade Inc – Digital is killing democracy: André Krouwel

February 11, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

A big assumption we make when talking about the internet and social media is that it is a power for good and enhances democracy. But what if this assumption is out of date and instead […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

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Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

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Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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