Climate Crisis
Richard Murphy – Is Greta Thunberg right?
Is it true that we’ve made no progress on climate change in the past two years as Greta Thurnberg has claimed? I fear that it is. This is why:
Month: September 2020
Climate Crisis
Steve Keen – Nordhaus is the climate’s worst enemy
There are the deniers who will argue that mankind has no influence on climate, but worse yet, there are economists who argue the impact will be so small the cost of trying to prevent it […]
Deregulation
Marshall Auerback – Are British Conservatives providing a future template for post-Trump Republicans?
An interesting piece. Marshall Auerback is a researcher at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, a fellow of Economists for Peace and Security Cross-posted from American Compass Much as the Brexit referendum anticipated the […]
EU politics
Srdja Pavlovic – Electoral Glimpse of Hope in Montenegro
After ruling the country for almost three decades, Milo Djukanovic no longer offered hope of a better life and prosperity for the citizens. Srdja Pavlovic is an Adjunct Professor specializing in the political and cultural […]
Corruption
Gabor Scheiring – Why Businesses Embrace Populists and What to do About it: Lessons from Hungary
Gabor Scheiring, Bocconi University The coronavirus crisis has revealed the weaknesses of some populist leaders such as Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil or Donald Trump in the US, yet others are emerging stronger than ever. And […]
EU politics
Ben Wray – A ‘Riders Law’ for Spain? Interview with Felipe Corredor Álvarez of RidersXDerechos
The Social Democratic Party in Spain (PSOE) has become like the other EU social democratic parties, the representative of business against the people. This newest labour law may well once again be blocked by the […]
EU politics
Craig Murray – Media Freedom? Show me the Mainstream Media Journalist Opposing the Torture of Assange
The affair around Julian Assange is of course an attack on freedom of the press, but not on mainstream media, whose goal is to end democracy. Craig Murray is a British former diplomat, political activist, […]
Economics
Michael Hudson – How an “Act of God” Pandemic is Destroying the West
The U.S. is Saving the Financial Sector, not the Economy Michael Hudson is a research professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City, and a research associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard […]
Environment
rfi: France moves to ease pesticide ban to save sugar beet farmers
This is typical for the EU. First a law forbidding neonicotinoids, then providing openings to by-pass the law and use this insecticide. Ten other EU member states have also used the exemption.Thus the EU can […]
Climate Crisis
Michael Roberts – Pandemics: Prevention before Cure
Over 140 years ago, Friedrich Engels noted how the private ownership of the land, the drive for profit and the degradation of nature go hand in hand. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City […]