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Month: December 2019

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Climate Crisis

Common Dreams – ‘A Win for the Planet!’: Dutch Supreme Court Issues Landmark Ruling Mandating Climate Action

December 22, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Advocates for climate action celebrated Friday after the Supreme Court of the Netherlands upheld a landmark ruling that found the Dutch government is obligated under international human rights law to more ambitiously reduce greenhouse gas […]

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Austerity

The Local fr: With no Christmas truce, transport strikes continue across France on Monday

December 22, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

With unions ruling out a ‘Christmas truce’ strike action continues in France on Monday, with public transport still badly disrupted and power cuts over the weekend. Read here

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Austerity

Peter Ramsay – Britain: The Limits of Populism

December 21, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Following the defeat of the Labour Party in the recent British general election there have been a number of very interesting analyses from the Lexit (Left Brexit) group here and here. As this discussion is […]

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Aviation

Mark Bou Mansour – Our Virtual Conference saved the Equivalent of 60 Households’ Annual Energy Emissions

December 21, 2019 David Shirreff 0

The Tax Justice Network ran a conference in early December connecting speakers from all over the world via their offices, living rooms and libraries. The reduction in carbon footprint – compared with flying 150 delegates […]

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Austerity

CNA: French travellers face train disruption as pension strikes go on

December 21, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Two weeks of nationwide industrial action against President Emmanuel Macron’s planned overhaul of the pension system have disrupted railways and roads, shut some schools and brought more than half a million people onto the streets. […]

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Corruption

Labour Heartlands: German politician files criminal complaint against EU President von der Leyen over wiped phone

December 21, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is what German corruption looks like. Every major scandal in Germany seems to end in important evidence disappearing or being destroyed. This is the EU hegemon they are going to tell you what democracy […]

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EU politics

Branko Milanović – Learning History

December 21, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Once again a great weekend read from Branko Milanović.  Knowledge in all its facets is invaluable to understanding the world and its apparent complexities, which sometimes are not as complex as they appear. AJP Taylor […]

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Austerity

PJ Media – Strike Against Pension Reform in France Enters Third Week

December 20, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

A nationwide transport strike in France is entering its third week with no sign that a deal will be reached anytime soon. Read here French President Emmanuel Macron and Melania Trump during the annual Bastille […]

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National Politics

Damian Killeen – Scotland: The View from Italy

December 20, 2019 David Shirreff 0

What would it take for Scots to make the transition from a ‘subject’ mentality to a ‘citizen’ mindset that could conceive something as radical and transformative as a written Constitution for an Independent Scottish Republic? […]

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Inequality

Renegade Inc – Privatised Planet

December 20, 2019 David Shirreff 0

With only a few days into a new right-wing UK government, a minister has conceded that extra nurses in the publicly-funded National Health Service (NHS) won’t be in place for another decade. This admission has been […]

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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

July 2, 2025 0

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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