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Fake News

Jonathan Cook – Establishment Journalists are piling on to smear Robert Fisk now he cannot answer back

November 30, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The problem is that most journalists are propagandists, which they will vehemently deny. They do not ask the most basic question of why billionaires and international corporations are paying them good money to write what […]

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Economics

Bill Mitchell: ECB operations are like the wild west and beyond democratic legitimacy

November 30, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

“For a monetary system that professes virtue because it is so rule-driven, the day-to-day reality is a sort of ad hoc adventure where there are no rules.” Read here

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Climate Crisis

Climate Analytics: Climate Transparency Report 2020: Country Profiles

November 30, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Do have a look at the EU and the four largest European economies. Interesting is that Germany, which parades itself as a leader in fighting the climate  crisis has the worst ratings. Read here

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Economics

Dean Baker – NYT Wants to Talk About Higher Wages, but Doesn’t Want to Talk About the Real Reasons Wages are Low

November 29, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Inequality is not a natural phenomenon, it is a policy. Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Cross-posted from Dean’s Beat the Press Blog It’s good to […]

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Climate Crisis

Richard Murphy – QE and Funding the Green New Deal

November 28, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

A Green New Deal is not difficult to finance. The  European political elite simply do not want one, instead creating a Brown Deal giving billions of public money to corporations involved in fossil fuels, cars, […]

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EU politics

Bill Mitchell – British Labour remains unelectable

November 28, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Labour too has become a zombie party as have most of the other Social Democratic parties in Europe. Being a neo-liberal party  and in favour of inequality is done much better by the Tories. Labour […]

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Corruption

Colin Todhunter- Ukraine: Dispossession and Imperialism Repackaged as ‘Feeding the World’

November 28, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Ukraine appears to be a lost cause. It now belongs to international corporations with a political elite that can be described as Third World (the term is being used figuratively). This is definitely an EU […]

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National Politics

Branko Milanović – Marriage and Society in Ante-Bellum Japan

November 27, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

A great weekend read, getting away from COVID, Trump, and the markets and edging back towards a reality gone by. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest  book is “Capitalism, […]

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Economics

Dag Detter, Stefan Folster, Josh Ryan-Collins – The Public Sector can Generate Wealth as well as Debt

November 27, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

“It is the net worth of the government that should be the focus, not its debt.” Dag Detter is Principal, Detter & Co Stefan Fölster is Director, Better Future Economics Josh Ryan-Collins is Head of […]

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EU politics

Paul Atkinson – The Policy Dynamics of COVID-19: What Science Can and Cannot Do

November 26, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The UK government’s rhetoric about ‘following the science’ in responding to COVID-19, if taken at face value, shows a worrying misunderstanding of what science is and how it best supports policy, writes Paul Atkinson. Paul […]

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EU politics

This Is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain by Will Davies

January 9, 2021 0

Book Review by Sean Kippin There is a particular brand of UK media figure. Usually male, they revel in the gossip, intrigue and parlour games of British politics. Policy seems to bore them. Economic policy is […]

EU politics

The Call of Catalonia by Sue Crampton

December 14, 2020 0

Book Review by Toni Strubell Sue Crampton’s “The Call of Catalonia”, apart from being a good read, is a book that will be useful to those wondering what the recent kerfuffle was about with the […]

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