Climate Crisis
The Guardian: Global food system is broken, say world’s science academies
Radical overhaul in farming and consumption, with less meat eating, needed to avoid hunger and climate catastrophe Read here
Month: November 2018
Economics
Daniela Gabor: The World Bank pushes fragile finance in the name of development
The World Bank’s Maximising Finance for Development agenda is constructing a new financial world order with shadow banking at its core, argues Daniela Gabor, professor of economics and macro-finance at UWE Bristol and one of 120 […]
Corruption
VilaWeb – Luis Gonzalo Segura: “The Spanish army has adopted NATO’s standards but remains Francoist at heart”
The problem is that when you look a bit closer at EU member states what you find is anything but the enlightenment and democratisation that was supposed to have occurred. Read here
EU politics
Eric Cantona – What is the meaning of life?
It is not that we are football fans, but we do feel we are Europeans – a feeling for which Eric Cantona gives a resonant voice. Eric Cantona is a French actor and former professional […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: The ‘fiscal contraction expansion’ lie lives on – now playing in Italy – Part 2
It will be madness if Italy bows to the pressure from the European Commission and the IMF and its related bullies like Blanchard and Co. and engages in more fiscal austerity. Italy is on the […]
Corruption
Elmar Müller – German Landesbanks: The good, the bad, and the ugly
“While in principle these state-owned wholesale banks are an excellent idea, their history has been marred by corruption, sleaze, and clientelism by Germany´s parasitic political parties” This is a typical example of the endemic corruption […]
Finance
Evgeny Morozov: From Airbnb to city bikes, the ‘sharing economy’ has been seized by big business
To flourish, the informal digital networks providing new services needed to be protected from the market Read here
EU politics
Catalan News: European MPs launch network condemning Spain’s ‘repression’ of Catalonia
Parliamentarians from various countries come together to call for dialogue and a binding referendum on self-determination Read here
Economics
Michael Roberts: Financialisation or profitability?
“What does the term ‘financialisation’ mean and does it add value to our understanding of the contradictions of modern capitalism and guide us to the right policy to change things?” Read here
EU politics
Yanis Varoufakis – TIME magazine’s report on DiEM25’s German party campaign for the European Parliament
This is an interesting foray into desolate German politics by the pan-European movement DiEM 25. By Billy Perrigo Cross-posted fromYanis Varoufakis´s blog On Sunday morning, the former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis picked up a microphone in […]