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Barry Lynn: Google and Facebook are strangling the free press to death. Democracy is the loser

July 26, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

As gatekeepers to the news, Google and Facebook pose dangers to even the most successful outlets. Legislators need to speed the process of bringing them to heel Read here

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Noam Chomsky: The Resurgence of Political Authoritarianism

July 26, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Noam Chomsky on a number of topics concerning the inexorable rise of authoritarianism worldwide. Read here

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Phillip Inman: Household debt in UK ‘worse than at any time on record’

July 26, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The classic question in economics is: If capitalists pay their workers too little, who is going to buy the capitalists’ products. Here is the answer. The same workers, who have to borrow from the banks, […]

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Counterfire: The Greek fires: a catastrophe fuelled by austerity

July 26, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Odd, looking for an article concerning the effect of austerity upon Greece’s ability to deal with the fires (there were numerable tweets from Greece on the topic), nothing could be found in corporate media. Read […]

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The National: Spain – Leader of People’s Party in Catalonia caught up in degree scandal

July 26, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

In Germany around 2010 numerous leading politicians including ministers had to resign as it was revealed that they had copiously plagiarised or had not written their own dissertations. In Spain things seem to be no […]

Economics

Saving Britain by Will Hutton and Andrew Adonis

July 26, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by David Shirreff This is a passionate, well-argued plea for a European Britain, written by two avowedly socialist Remainers. They will not accept the standard disqualifier: that the EU is a collection of […]

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Bill Mitchell – Build it in Britain is just sensible logic

July 26, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

On Tuesday Jeremy Corbyn gave a speech announcing plans to change the way the British government spends if he is to be elected: the government would prioritise British producers. Here is Bill Mitchell´s take on […]

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Positive Money – How Greece lost billions from an obscure ECB programme

July 25, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Through its peculiar “Securities Market Programme”, the European Central Bank generated billions of profits for creditor Member States such as France and Germany. Positive Money´s research shows that nearly €8 billion have been lost for […]

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Economics

Grace Blakeley: A post-Brexit economy must aid the losers of financial globalisation

July 25, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Rather than chastising pro-Leave citizens for “voting against their interests”, the UK’s political class should mend a broken system. Read here

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Prem Sikka: There’s only one way to solve inequality and fat-cattery – and it isn’t ‘naming and shaming’

July 25, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

As new figures show wage stagnation for workers – and big pay hikes for bosses – Prem Sikka argues it’s time to bold solutions to the inequality crisis. Read here

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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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