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Lars P. Syll: Chicago Economics — Garbage in, Gospel out

December 30, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Chicago economics is a dangerous pseudo-scientific zombie ideology that ultimately relies on the poor having to pay for the mistakes of the rich. Lars P. Syll is an economist at the Faculty of Education and […]

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EU politics

Vicent Partal – The Spanish Police Frame-Up that should be a Lesson to Everyone

December 29, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

One can see how desperate the Spanish government (Social Democrats) is to  justify its brutal repression in Catalonia. The Committees for the Defence of the Republic, or CDR, previously named Committees for the Defense of […]

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Austerity

David Harvey: What is Neoliberalism?

December 29, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

David Harvey on what neoliberalism is, where it came from – and why the concept is still relevant today. Read here

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Irish Times: Europe’s conscience drowned in the Mediterranean Sea

December 29, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Not the EU! They stand for everything good and wholesome. Let us listen to the Ode to Joy again and then move on to more important matters, like an EU trade deal that will destroy […]

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Austerity

OBN – ‘EU transfers cash for the poor to the arms trade’

December 29, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Ooooh EUs in Britain and the EU will surely be shocked and horrified that this greatest institutuion of every thing that is good could even consider such neo-liberal measures (as usual). Read here Food […]

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Austerity

Voice of America: Thousands March in Paris to Protest Pension Reform Plan

December 29, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Apparently for the first time the unions asked the Yellow Vests to join them in demonstrating. Read here

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Economics

Lars P. Syll – Sweden Would Have Been Poorer with the Euro New Study Shows

December 28, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Like the Brits later, the Swedes had the courage to oppose the neo-liberal dictate of the EU. Lars P. Syll is an economist at the Faculty of Education and Society at Malmö, Sweden, not to […]

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Environment

Stephanie Searle – Will Someone Please Tell Me if Biofuels are Good or Bad for the Environment?

December 28, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Biofuels are confusing because they’re complicated, and they’re complicated mainly because of indirect effects. Stephanie Searle is Program Lead at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) Cross-posted  from the ICCT Website   Few environmental […]

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Climate Crisis

Karen Rial-Lovera – Three Ways Farms of the Future Can Feed the Planet and Heal It Too

December 28, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Nature and technology can combine to help farms of the future nourish the earth and its inhabitants.SimplyDay/Shutterstock Karen Rial-Lovera, Nottingham Trent University Intensive agriculture may be nourishing most of the Earth’s inhabitants, but it’s doing […]

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Austerity

In Defence of Marxism – France: no “Christmas truce” as longest strike in decades continues

December 28, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

President Macron’s dreams of a peaceful Christmas were dashed as striking workers rejected his plea for a holiday truce, during what has become the longest continuous strike in 30 years – longer than the victorious […]

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