Climate Crisis
Reuters – Blinken warns entities involved in Nord Stream 2 pipeline to immediately quit
Just as Trump saved the EU from TTIP, Biden may stop the climate destruction of Nord Stream 2. Read here
Month: March 2021
Austerity
Bill Mitchell – Australian Central Bank shows who is in charge as the speculators are outwitted
The Reserve Bank of Australia – is currently demonstrating what Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) economists have said all along – the financial markets can always be subjugated by the power of government, any time policy […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – Paris Commune 150: the economics
18 March was the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Paris Commune. The Commune (Council) was formed as result of what should be considered the first uprising and revolution led by the working class […]
Corruption
Yanis Varoufakis – Draghi’s outrageous deployment of McKinsey, Europe’s predicament, DiEM25’s proposals
“Mario Draghi hired McKinsey to ‘organise’ Italy’s distribution of the Recovery Fund monies. What next? Get the Mafia to re-organise the Ministry of Justice?” Yanis Varoufakis, a former finance minister of Greece, is leader of […]
Climate Crisis
Frances Coppola – From Carbon To Metals: the Renewable Energy Transition
Good to see someone explaining this aspect of a circular economy Frances Coppola is the author of the Coppola Comment finance and economics blog, which is a regular feature on the Financial Times’ Alphaville blog and has […]
Climate Crisis
Öko Institute – Land use in the EU Climate Target Plan 2030: Ecosystems are more than carbon reservoirs
Carbon sinks such as forests are taken for granted and assumed to be a panacea, but once again the EU has no plans for increasing or maintaining these The Öko-Institut (Institute for Applied Ecology) is […]
Economics
More V-Recovery – Eurozone: January Exports fall 11.4%
The first estimate for euro area exports of goods to the rest of the world in January 2021 was €163.1 billion, a decrease of 11.4% compared with January 2020 (€184.0 bn). Imports from the rest […]
EU politics
Gig Economy Project – Taxis shutdown Barcelona to oppose Uber’s ‘illegal’ re-entry
Uber is back in the Catalan capital after being pushed out in 2019, but Barcelona’s taxi leader says “there will be war and it will not stop” if they don’t leave again. The Gig Economy Project, led […]
Aviation
Transport & Environment – Global airline emissions plan falls short of EU goals, Brussels advised
It has been an open secret that the UN’s Corsia plan, which was de facto written by the aviation industry and corrupt UN technocrats, is useless and CO2 caused by planes will rise in the […]
Climate Crisis
The Sustainability Agenda: Interview with Rupert Read
In this thought provoking and spirited interview, Rupert Read shares lessons and insights from his decades long experience as an activist. Rupert believes that as a society we are facing a “long emergency” with our […]