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The Local es: Puigdemont CAN run in EU polls, Spain’s Supreme Court rules

May 6, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Spain’s Supreme Court on Sunday said Catalonia’s former president Carles Puigdemont, who fled to Belgium in 2017 after a secession attempt, could contest EU polls this month. But this is only the beginning of the […]

Economics

Prosperity: better business makes the greater good, by Colin Mayer

May 6, 2019 David Shirreff 0

Book review by David Shirreff Capitalism needs a re-think – large swathes of economists and policy-makers would agree with that. But how do you change the nature of a company – that building-block of capitalism […]

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Morning Star: France deploys ‘fake news’ against the Gilets Jaunes – and fails

May 6, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

As soon as the first reports were up, the whole affair made no sense. For any journalist all the warning signals should have been up. Still, the mainstream media put it out without checking the […]

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Dirk Ehnts – The Swabian Housewife and the Kingdom of Sweden – a Comparison

May 5, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

It was German Chancellor Angela Merkel who explained government spending in very simple terms for her very simple people: “You should have just asked the Swabian housefrau. She would have told us a wisdom of […]

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Bill McGuire – The Curious Arrival of Climate Change in Politics

May 5, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Although this article is specifically about Britain we are going to see more and more of this sort of posturing in the EU. Even one of the great endemically corrupt sell out parties in Europe, […]

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Spiked: The dangers of anti-populism

May 5, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

An interesting take on what is the opposite of “populism”. Read here

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Vanessa Beeley: Bordeaux: Gilets Jaunes, Acte XXV, Militarization of French Security Forces

May 5, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

My full conversation with a French police officer yesterday during Acte XXV of the #GiletsJaunes protests. 25 weeks of state sanctioned violence and savagery. Thankfully, yesterday was relatively quiet and ended without any major tension […]

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Economics

Heiner Flassbeck – Notre Dame, charity and “happiness”

May 4, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

The hypocrisy of neo-liberalism, as so often with modern philanthropy, became very obvious after the fire at Notre Dame. Heiner Flassbeck explains why Emmanuel Macron give the super-rich their money back and instead tax them […]

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Economics

Steve Keen – Climate Change and the Nobel Prize in Economics: The Age of Rebellion

May 4, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

As Steve Keen points out, the discourse of mainstream economists concerning stopping climate change is as wrong as its discourse on economics. Until we bin the whole lot and develop a completely new discourse concerning […]

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Chris Bambery – Two Realities: Catalonian and Spainish

May 3, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Week 12 of the show trial conducted by Spain to convict the leaders of Catalonian struggle for independence Chris Bambery records how two realities apparently exist. On the one side the Spanish police, who report […]

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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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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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