EU politics
Chris Nineham: Why the EU is not internationalist
Seeing the EU as internationalist is a fundamental error rooted in a misdiagnosis of its aims and effects, argues Chris Nineham Read here
Year: 2019
Economics
Andrea Lorenzo Capussela – The Political Economy of Italy’s Decline
20 March 2019 in Berlin A talk in our series “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau” Italy is a rich society served by an advanced manufacturing sector, where the rule of law is weak, however, and […]
Economics
Media
Jonathan Cook – The 7 years of lies about Assange won’t stop now
It took us a long while to find an adequate article concerning the outrage that occurred yesterday in London. This piece by Jonathan Cook brought the most important strands together. Thus we selected this article […]
Economics
Grace Blakeley: Why the world needs a new financial order
Capital mobility has sucked money out of the global South and into financial vortexes such as Wall Street and the City of London. Read here
Economics
Lars P. Syll – MMT perspectives on the euro
In her unsuccesful general election campaign of 2017 Theresa May promised “strong and stable” leadership. Look what Britain got. The same was promised with the euro. What the euro-nations got was German ideological obsession for […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: Madness on both sides of the Atlantic
Europe´s future generations will pay for the German ideological obsession for rules over reality. Read here
Climate Crisis
France 24: EU countries approve launch of US trade talks
Germany wants to avoid US tariffs on its cars – and what Germany wants in the EU, it gets. Macron is made to look ridiculous again. Maybe he ought to stick to beating up his […]
Economics
Bloomberg: Italy Raises Deficit Target, Risking Fresh Conflict With The EU
Does this really surprise anyone? Read here
Corruption
The Olive Press: Journalist faces jail over plot to smear Spain’s left wing political leader Pablo Iglesias
Once again the centrists parties of Spain, the Consevatives and Social Democrats, have been caught using illegal means of undermining the leftist oppostion. Corruption, anti-democracy, and police brutality seem to be the hallmarks of this […]