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Month: August 2018

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Corruption

Stéfanie Khoury and David Whyte – The UN Human Rights Council’s “Draft Zero” still won’t prioritise human rights above the rights of corporations

August 31, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Next month, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) will consider the first draft (“Draft Zero”) of a new treaty on the human rights responsibilities of corporations. It it has already been criticised for key shortcomings […]

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EU politics

Andrea Lorenzo Capussela – Kosovo and Serbia: A dangerous but not unprecedented Balkan land swap

August 30, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Kosovo and Serbia have recently discussed an exchange of territory, with some commentators suggesting a deal on a ‘land swap’ might be imminent. Andrea Lorenzo Capussela writes that while critics have rightly decried the plan […]

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Transport & Environment – Carmakers have cheated European drivers to the tune of 150bn euros since 2000

August 30, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The real cost of carmakers gaming fuel efficiency tests is now revealed: the additional fuel burned because of widespread industry manipulation has cost drivers an extra €149.6 billion for the past 18 years (2000-2017) [1]. […]

Economics

Bullshit Jobs, A theory – by David Graeber

August 30, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by David Shirreff   “I would like this book to be an arrow aimed at the heart of our civilisation.” So writes David Graeber in his preface to Bullshit Jobs, A Theory. David […]

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EU politics

CommonSpace – Rebuttal: The story the media missed on ex-chief rabbi Sacks

August 30, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

It appears that the “liberals” in Britain are have taken a lesson from the alt-right with regard to their media policy to counter a rising wave of progressives in the UK. Read here

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Politico – Trump lawyer Giuliani got paid to lobby Romanian president

August 30, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

What a read! Another EU Social Democratic party that has discoverd that the key to success is lie, lie, and lie again. Laws are for losers. Read here

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Economics

Aufhebunga Bunga – Exiting Capitalist Realism

August 30, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The third in our Neoliberal Breakdown series. In which we discuss the late Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism, 10 years on. Does his analysis still hold? The mood music of the time – the age of ‘TINA’ […]

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Economics

Larry Elliot: Ten years after the financial crash, the timid left should be full of regrets

August 30, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Larry Elliot´s analysis is somewhat short-sighted. The mainstream media played a crucial role in keeping many critical voices and opinions out the discourse. We see this daily as the newspaper where Elliot writes, the Guardian. […]

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Economics

Hilary Wainwright: The economics that came in from the cold

August 29, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Tory-supporting media have been portraying Jeremy Corbyn as a Soviet fellow-traveller, while unnoticed the shadow chancellor sets out a vision that breaks with the old bureaucratic state model Read here

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Economics

Geoff Tily – Turkey is business-as-usual for the globalised financial system

August 29, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Turkish debt inflation was inherently unsustainable; the only uncertainties were the timing of, and trigger(s) for, the reversal. But who will carry the burden of the consequences? Geoff Tily is a Senior Economist at […]

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