Austerity
Perry Anderson – The Breakaway
Another outstanding article by Perry Anderson concerning the EU Read here
Month: January 2021
Economics
Albena Azmanova, Marshall Auerback – Lessons From the 6 January Insurrection
It will be seen if the ruling elite in the US is capable of responding to the reality in their nation. Otherwise this was a poorly executed first try. The second will be better organised. […]
Climate Crisis
Giorgos Kallis – Limits, degrowth and environmental justice
On Malthus and limits, ideology of scarcity and power, degrowth, biopolitics and mal-adaptation.
Austerity
Euro Intelligence – On the next German chancellor
The Eurointelligence team discusses Armin Laschet’s victory and a variety of confusing political crises. Listen here
Corruption
Jonathan Cook – Trump may be on trial, but the system that produced him will be acquitted
Jonathan Cook keeping his eye on the political ball. Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, since 2001 Cross-posted from Jonathan Cook’s website To read the tweets in this article in […]
Climate Crisis
Paul Brown – Carbon capture and storage won’t work, critics say
Carbon capture and storage, trapping carbon before it enters the atmosphere, is crucial in all the mainstream plans for countering climate change. Just one problem: it does not work. Paul Brown, a founding editor of […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Scotland: a nation cannot be independent and use another nation’s currency or even peg to it
Scotland’s corrupt SNP political class is planning to maintain its neo-liberal entitlements by continuing using the British Pound after independence Read here
Economics
Dean Baker – Debt and Deficits, Yet Again
With a Democrat in the White House, the season of the deficit hawk has returned. So, it’s worth going through the old arguments just to remind everyone that the best response to these people is […]
EU politics
Chris Myant – Why has Macron rejected the joint enterprise that defeats COVID-19?
In the France of today, it would mean democratising the response to the virus, not imprisoning it in the closed corridors of power. Chris Myant started as a journalist in 1968 working for the Morning […]
Corruption
Vila Web: Spain’s Social Democratic Party rejects investigating former king for illicit credit cards
Socialists vote alongside Right PP and Far Right Vox against initiative put forth by coalition partners Read here