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Chris Bambery – Catalonia: A People in Search of Justice in an Unjust EU

April 19, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

In his report concerning week 10 of the show trial conducted by Spain to convict the leaders of Catalonia Chris Bambery and many Catalonians are coming to the conclusion that the EU is an accessory […]

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Climate Crisis

Julian Wettengel – German energy reform needs “enormous efforts” in transport and buildings

April 19, 2019 David Shirreff 0

A leaked progress report warns that Germany will miss its 2020 amd 2030 targets for reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions by wide margins Julian Wettengel is a staff correspondent for Clean Energy Wire Cross-posted […]

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Sinn Féin: Carthy forces ECB to reveal it profited by 73 billion from eurozone misery

April 19, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

A Sinn Féin member of the European parliement, Matt Carthy, has exposed the fact that the European Central Bank made profits of 73 billion euros from the Securities Market Programme used to “aid” the peripheral […]

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Dina Srinivasan – Can Antitrust Law Rein in Facebook’s Data-Mining Profit Machine?

April 18, 2019 David Shirreff 0

Facebook engaged in an elaborate bait and switch on user data: privacy disappeared along with its competitors. Laws governing competition could change that. Dina Srinavasan is a former technology entrepreneur  Cross-posted from The Institute for […]

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Finance

Lucie Russell – Why It’s Time to Abolish the Poverty Premium

April 18, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

A cruel irony of modern capitalism is that people in poverty are forced to pay more for many essential products and services. This is what is known as the ‘poverty premium’ – the extra cost […]

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Corruption

Cain Burdeau: EU Accused of Standing by as Ancient Forests Are Clear-Cut

April 18, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Romania may be ruled by corrupt politicians, but they are EU politicians, so this is apparently alright. Especially European Social Democrats are delighted as their sister party in Romania leading the corruption racket are important […]

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EU politics

Common Space: Scotland should get rid of Mastercard and Visa and introduce national payment service

April 18, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

In the first of a two-part series, financial IT systems expert Peter Ryan writes for Common Weal on his latest policy paper, ‘Paying Our Way’. which advocates for the creation of a publicly owned payments […]

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Economics

Steve Keen – Interview on Keiser Report

April 18, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

“Max quizzes me about the failure of negative interest rates, the promise of a Green New Deal or a Trump infrastructure package, and about Ray Dalio’s failure of capitalism claims.  I raised the spectre of […]

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Climate Crisis

Andrew Murphy – Governments Can Stop Other Airlines Joining Ryanair as Top-10 Emitter

April 17, 2019 David Shirreff 0

Aviation is the most carbon-intensive mode of transport, and Europe’s fastest-growing source of emissions. Time to stop the rot. Andrew Murphy writes on aviation for Transport & Environment Cross-posted from Transport & Environment Ryanair grabbed […]

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Economics

Bloomberg: German Economy Heads for Worst Growth in Six Years

April 17, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Angela Merkel´s incompetence in her handling of Brexit is already seriously damaging the German economy with knock on effects for the rest of the EU. 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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