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Common Space – European governments are in no position to hand out lectures to Venezuela about people power

February 5, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

European colonialism is back with a vengeance. One may think of Maduro whatever one wants, but there is no excuse for this sort of interference by EU member states governments. Instead of taking care of […]

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rfi: Red and Yellow Vests in joint strike, but can they become joint force?

February 5, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Tens of thousands of people across France downed tools on Tuesday and marched against President Macron’s policies. The day of strike action was called by the hard left CGT trade union. And for the first […]

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Chris Dillow: Obstacles to full employment

February 5, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

With regard to Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) there is a debate in progress in Britain between Simon Wren-Lewis and Jonathan Portes, who are guiding the economic policy of the Labour Party and Richard Murphy, a […]

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El País: Spanish sailor faces 30 days in custody for signing declaration against Franco

February 5, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Maybe Yanis Varoufakis and DiEM will be too late to reform the EU and prevent the rise of fascism. Read here

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Philip Cunliffe – Who Shall Rouse Him Up? Brexit: The World Turned Upside Down

February 4, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

On Sunday a leftist German blog wrote to ask if we could explain Brexit. As far as they could see, it was a simply a question of the British trying to gain trade advantages and […]

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Economics

Jason Hickel – A letter to Steven Pinker (and Bill Gates, for that matter) about global poverty

February 4, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Billionaires and politicians have a very convenient – and very wrong – perception of poverty, which they legititimate with incorrect studies. Jason Hickel is an anthropologist who works on political economy and global justice. He […]

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Economics

David Graeber: Bullshit Jobs, Direct Democracy & the End of Capitalism

February 4, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

James Butler is joined by David Graeber to talk through the meaning of direct democracy, the ennui at the heart of neoliberalism, and examine the relationship of political thinking to political practice. Listen here

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Vanessa Beeley – GILETS JAUNES: Civilians in Police Crosshairs as Macron Adopts Totalitarian State-Practices to Suppress Dissent

February 4, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

An excellent piece describing  state brutality in France. As the EU continues to deteriorate due to neo-liberalism we will see scenes like these in France, or similar ones in Catalonia, more often in EU nations. […]

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Economics

Richard Murphy – The auditing profession has completely lost its moral and professional compass

February 3, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

The auditing profession has become synonymous with fraud. Richard Murphy is being generous by not mentioning that the same auditing firms advise the same companies on how to evade paying taxes, not to mention how to […]

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Paul Brown – Pyrenees pipeline veto is setback for gas

February 3, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

The global gas industry’s prospects will suffer from the Pyrenees pipeline veto imposed by regulators, say opponents of fossil fuel. Paul Brown, a founding editor of Climate News Network, is a former environment correspondent of […]

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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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