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Yanis Varoufakis – Discussing Seattle’s Amazon Head Tax

May 16, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Yanis Varoufakis’s take on why Amazon and other companies in Seattle are refusing to pay a “head tax” on their employees to finance housing for the poor and the consequences of such policies. Listen here

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EU politics

Tax Justice Network – LuxLeaks verdict: hope for whistleblowers as Antoine Deltour is acquitted

May 16, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

We’ve always said that the #LuxLeaks whistleblowers Antoine Deltour, Raphaël Halet and investigative journalist Edouard Perrin should never have been charged because the disclosures they were involved in were so obviously in the public interest, […]

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The Guardian: East coast mainline to be temporarily renationalised

May 16, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Privatisation of Britain’s railways has cost taxpayers and passengers billions of Pounds, thousands of jobs, not to mention the awful service. If this can be done with East Coast Mainline, why not with the other […]

Corruption

Beancounters – The Triumph of the Accountants and How they broke Capitalism by Richard Brooks

May 16, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Atul K. Shah As Private Eye journalist, Richard Brooks has long been responsible for exposing corporate corruption, especially around tax avoidance and evasion. One story kept on repeating in his research – […]

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John Weeks – Same old same old…Tory austerity

May 15, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The British economy is not doing well in any sense. Many UK citizens lead an existential battle of survival. All this has been caused by austerity, which was a miracle solution to solve all economic […]

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Positive Money – A Green Bank of England

May 15, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

At an international conference of financial supervisors, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney described the ‘transition in action’ underway as central banks and the financial sector at large begin to address climate change. Positive Money’s […]

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George Monbiot: The UK government wants to put a price on nature – but that will destroy it

May 15, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Tories eeclared they were preparing a new, robust environmental policy. The result is the usual neo-liberal rubbish. Everything is reduced to its monetary value. Whoever still has a connection with nature knows this is […]

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EU politics

Vox EU: Peter Bofinger – Euro area reform: No deal is better than a bad deal

May 15, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The recent proposals for euro area reform from a team of French and German economists have initiated an intensive debate. This column, part of VoxEU’s Euro Area Reform debate, argues that the specific insolvency risk of euro area […]

EU politics

Luke Stobart: The state vs people power in Catalonia

May 15, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The grassroots Committees for the Defence of the Republic stand for a participatory society. Luke Stobart reports from Catalonia’s continuing independence struggle Read here  

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EPSU – Unhappier Meal: Tax Avoidance Still on the Menu at McDonald’s

May 14, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

One sees how easy tax dodging is in the EU. If you have problems in one nation, one simply moves to the next. There are almost 200 nations in the world, so there will never […]

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

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