Economics
Steve Keen – Talk with Positive Money
This was a fairly “a la carte” presentation of why bank creation of money matters as part of a Positive Money talk at the Hackney Downs Studios on March 14 2018. Steve started with how […]
Year: 2018
Finance
The hunt for Toys R Us’ missing millions: Investigators probe a £580m loan moved to a tax haven just months before the store went bust
As usual, in the end we shall discover that this was “completely legal” and the pension fund will be left with a massive deficit. Read here
Deregulation
Heikki Patomäki – The Finnish University Strike 2018: A New Moment in the Process of Turning Universities into Business Corporations
BRAVE NEW EUROPE would like to thank Heikki for taking the time to write this upon our request. We find it an outstanding analysis, listing the conflicts confronting universities not only Finland, but all over […]
Austerity
Bernie Sanders: The corporate media ignores the rise of oligarchy. The rest of us shouldn’t
The main difference between the media in the United States and the EU is that here two journalists who tried to report the non-corporate-media side of the story were recently murdered. Read here
Austerity
Ed Rooksby – Notes on the UCU Strike
“There’s a decent chance, it seems to me, that is, that victory for university workers in this dispute would provide a major boost for organized labour generally.” Ed Rooksby teaches politics at Ruskin College in […]
Austerity
Lexit Network – Founding declaration: Austria Self-determined
“Selbstbestimmtes Österreich” (SBÖ, Austria Self-determined) is a new political alliance in Austia. They define four basic lines for their approach on Austrian politics: Democratic, Social, Sovereign, Neutral. The approach is in key points very colse […]
Austerity
Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World by William Mitchell and Thomas Fazi
Book review by Mathew D. Rose According to Bill Mitchell the book’s original title was “Reclaiming the Nation State”. The progressive publisher wanted the word nation removed. The term “Nation State”, claimed the publisher, was […]
EU politics
German Foreign Policy: The “Germanization” of the European Parliament
“Germans hold many key positions in other EU administrations, such as EU financial institutions. Critics are already warning against the “Germanization” of the EU parliament.” Read here
EU politics
Chris Dillow: What do earnings tell us?
What do universities and earnings have to do with one another? Read here
Finance
Fuck Off Google: Don’t let Google take over Berlin!
Google plans to implant a “Google Campus” in Kreuzberg, Berlin. We, as a decentralized network of people are committed to not letting our beloved city be taken over by these tax-evading criminals who are building […]