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Month: April 2018

Austerity

Owen Jones: Food banks shouldn’t even exist. Don’t let them become the new normal

April 25, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Unfortunately food banks are the new normal and not only in the UK. In most of the EU you will find food banks or the equivalent run by the Red Cross and other humanitarian organisations. […]

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Climate Crisis

Kieran Cooke – Ireland’s household pollution tops EU league

April 24, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

It’s known as the Emerald Isle, but Ireland’s household pollution means the country’s homes emit more carbon than any other EU member. Kieran Cooke is a founding editor of Climate News Network, a former foreign […]

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EU politics

Lina Gálvez – Spain: The Sullied University

April 24, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

As we are saw in the UK University Strike, universities are under attack by neo-liberalism. Until they have become a profit-generating commodity they are useless. This is no less true in Spain as Lina Gálvez […]

Corruption

The Irish Times – Spain: Madrid regional president faces fake degree allegations

April 24, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is truly a remarkable story – and that in a nation where the governmng Partido Popular claims to be protecting the rule of law in Catalonia. Apparently there is no law for members of […]

EU politics

VilaWeb: FC Barcelona protests over confiscated yellow t-shirts at Copa del Rey final

April 24, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

We are late with this, but it shows how degraded the rule of law is becoming in the EU, in this case freedom of expression – and condoned by much of the EU elite. Read […]

Austerity

Amnesty International – Spain: Cruel austerity measures leave patients suffering

April 24, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

While corporate media is talking up the EU’s “robust recovery”, especially in Spain, on the ground things are apparently very different. Read here  

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Austerity

Steve Schifferes – How the media made austerity worse

April 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

John Gomez/Shutterstock.com Steve Schifferes, City, University of London The UK financial press was much slower to criticise the austerity policies of the government than in other parts of Europe. This meant that it became accepted […]

Economics

Larry Elliot: Could Donald Trump’s lone ranger approach provide the silver bullet?

April 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

This could become truly embarrassing. First Donald Trump sank TTIP, saving Europeans from their own corrupt political elite. Now Larry Elliot raises the question if the world trade system has been so manipulated in the […]

EU politics

Reuters: ECB mulls shelving rules tackling euro zone’s bad loans pile

April 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

With regard to austerity for the people, the EU wields an iron fist. When it comes to banks it will bend over backward to be obliging and generous. Read here    

EU politics

Eduard Márquez: I am a Catalan writer and I want independence for my country

April 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

It is very convenient to forget the struggle in Catalonia. It is good to see that it is still given a voice, although thanks to a book festival. Literature has often carried the torch for […]

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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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