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Month: December 2018

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Politico: Macron ‘lost authority’ after caving to Yellow Jackets, says Oettinger

December 27, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The EU hegemon speaks. This is the same German Commissioner who called upon the markets to crush Italian state finances if the government passed a budget above a deficit of 2 %. Read here

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EU politics

Bill Mitchell – More Brexit nonsense from the pro-European dreamers

December 27, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Do not be fooled by the title. This is actually an analysis of the EU,  debunking the glowing articles appearing in state and corporate media, as well as those guided by sentimental symbolism instead of […]

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EU politics

Aufhebunga Bunga – Popular Not Populist featuring Anton Jaeger

December 26, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The big 2018 populism discussion. We trash mainstream interpretations of populism (hiya, Cas Mudde) and debate the merits and demerits of ‘left populism’. Thatcher, Clinton and Blair are today thought of as anti-populists, but what […]

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Climate Crisis

Transport & Environment – Governments’ ambition on truck CO2 falls short

December 25, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The German government has done it again: blocked important EU climate measures to protect the profits of its motor industry, this time lorries. The Germans who claim to be the great environmental force with its […]

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Finance

Maite Tapia, Lowell Turner, Salil R. Sapre – Can millennials save the labour movement?

December 25, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Young workers are less likely than older workers to be union members even though they may have a more favourable view of unions. Maite Tapia, Lowell Turner and Salil R. Sapre argue that unions can be […]

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Climate Crisis

The Guardian: Labour would ‘radically transform economy’ to focus on climate change

December 24, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

It is simply amazing, while the London Chattering Class is going on about Brexit and its anti-Corbyn tirades, Labour is inexorably continuing its focus on climate change, neo-liberalism, and inequality. Read here

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Economics

Renegade Inc – Michael Hudson: He died for our debts, not our sins

December 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

As we turn towards our faiths this Christmas and Hanukkah in an attempt to make sense of the year that was, economist Professor Michael Hudson says we have been interpreting the bible incorrectly. And he […]

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EU politics

Antonio Lettieri – Italy and the disappointing history of the Euro

December 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Italy is the only country where the old establishment parties have been swept away from the scene. The clash with the European commission has been focused on compliance with the rules – a sort of catechism – […]

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Economics

Simon Wren-Lewis – Helping the left behind: It’s (economic) geography, stupid

December 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Simon Wren-Lewis discusses how the political divide that has become clear since the Brexit vote (and which is also clear in US support for Trump) is between towns and cities, not between regions. Cross-posted from […]

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EU politics

Ashoka Mody – Britain has always felt awkward in the EU, so its exit is sure to be bitter and chaotic

December 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Brexit induced trauma is but an act in an evolving drama. Read here

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

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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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