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
Month: January 2021
Fake News
William Callison, Quinn Slobodian – Coronapolitics from the Reichstag to the Capitol
Defying conventional political labels and capitalizing on widespread distrust, a range of new movements share the conviction that all power is conspiracy. Read here
Climate Crisis
Steve Keen: Economic failures of the IPCC process
This post contains new information on Nordhaus’s distortion of Lenton et al.’s 2008 paper on tipping elements in the Earth’s climate, but is otherwise very similar to my recent paper in Globalizations. It is a […]
Finance
Branko Milanović – L’éducation idéologique
Who needs too clever by half corporate media political analysts when there are blogs like this one Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest book is “Capitalism, Alone: The Future […]
EU politics
Ben Wray – Spain’s gig economy riders win 41st court verdict against platform employers
Report on latest of 41 court verdicts against false self-employment of riders in Spain, and update on divisions over the Spanish Government’s so-called ‘Riders Law’. Ben Wray is a freelance journalist leading BRAVE NEW EUROPE’S […]
Aviation
Mark Maslin, Simon Lewis – Outdated carbon credits from old wind and solar farms are threatening climate change efforts
chuyuss / shutterstock Mark Maslin, UCL and Simon Lewis, UCL French global energy giant Total recently announced it had delivered its first shipment of “carbon neutral liquid natural gas”. Natural gas is, of course, a […]
Economics
Kathimerini – Greece is running short of cash
The lockdown extension will require almost the entire financial arsenal of the government, which in the first quarter of 2021 will supply some 6.5 billion euros in liquidity of out of a budgeted total of […]
Austerity
Toni Strubell, Núria Bassa – One year into Spain’s “most progressive government in history”
What more should one expect from an EU social democratic and “leftist” party than the same politics from an EU conservative party? Toni Strubell is a former MP in the Catalan Parliament, journalist, and author […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell – OECD is apparently now anti austerity – warning, the leopard hasn’t changed its spots
We keep hearing about major changes of policy by the IMF, World Bank, now OECD. When it comes to changing their practices, these changes never materialise. Read here
Economics
Richard Murphy – Is a Crash likely? The Uncomfortable Answer is ‘Yes’
Crashes are often predicted, but the reasons behind these predictions can be interesting as in this article by Richard Murphy Richard Murphy is a Visiting Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City University of […]