Finance
ITEP: Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Paid $0 in Taxes
Hugely profitable tech company provides first look at how corporations are faring under new tax law Read here
Month: February 2019
EU politics
Maja Bjeloš: Two months of protests in Serbia – what’s next?
Since the end of 2018, anti-government protests have been held across Serbia. Maja Bjeloš explains the background to the protests, which have demanded an end to government pressure on the media, stronger protection for journalists […]
Economics
Deregulation
Corporate Europe Observatory: Veto power to please lobbyists – corporations behind Commission power grab over services
We cannot emphasise how important this topic is. It is the logical next step in the EU´s policy of destroying democracy in Europe to impose a neo-liberal diktat. We have shortened this article – somewhat, […]
EU politics
El Nacional Cat.: Main Spanish parties ask European Parliament to ban Puigdemont from speaking
With Centrists like this, who need populist fascist parties. The EU is arrving at its predestined neo-liberal goal: the end of democracy in Europe. No surprise to see the Social Democrats in the forefront. Read […]
Environment
EcoWatch: Glyphosate Exposure Increases Cancer Risk Up to 41%, Study Finds
Do not expect an action from the EU. The German transnatiional Bayer bought Monsanto and its cancer-causing product Roundup. Like Diesel, the EU hegemon Germany will see to it that this will be ignored. Read […]
EU politics
Spain in English: Violations of ‘presumption of innocence’ in Catalan Trial
The interesting aspect of this farce of a trial is that if found guilty, it will probably end up at the European Court of Justice and will expose the EU´s failure to deal with this […]
Climate Change
Grace Blakeley: Whatever the Brexit outcome, the UK desperately needs a Green New Deal
Co-ordinated state action is necessary to address climate change without harming the economy or inflicting the costs on the poorest. Read here
Energy
Raffaella Ocone – Carbon capture on power stations burning woodchips is not the green gamechanger many think it is
Drax biomass plant, Yorkshire.Coatsey Raffaella Ocone, Heriot-Watt University The UK’s efforts to develop facilities to remove carbon emissions from power stations took a step forward with news of a demonstrator project getting underway at the […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: A progressive European superstate will never come to pass
“A progressive European superstate will never come to pass” Read here