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Month: December 2021

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Finance

Bama Athreya: Gig Workers are in the Driver’s Seat in Europe. Is There Hope for the US?

December 18, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

It’s been quite a year for gig workers around the world. A year ago, platforms like Uber and Doordash were celebrating a costly success undermining workers’ rights in California. Thanks to continued organizing around the […]

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Gig Economy Project – Just Eat signs “pioneer” labour agreement with Spanish unions

December 17, 2021 Ben Wray 0

Agreement is the first of its kind in Spain, and includes 30 days of holiday leave, a maximum working day and health & safety protections, but does not extend to Just Eat’s sub-contractors The Gig […]

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Climate Crisis

Alberto Vela – Gas and nuclear: a lose-lose scenario for Eastern Europe

December 17, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

The strong advocacy of Central and Eastern European capitals for including fossil gas and nuclear power in the EU’s green taxonomy only leads to another unsustainable energy lock-in for the region, leaving their grid exposed […]

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EU politics

Toni Strubell, Núria Bassa – Spain, the EU’s blue-eyed blindspot

December 17, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

While the EU takes exception to Poland and Hungary’s transgressions of EU legal mandates, Spain sails on unchallenged in its own particular application of the law with a defiant attitude not so dissimilar to Poland’s […]

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James Foley – How Boris Johnson Lost His Populist Appeal

December 17, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

After all the academic pseudo analyses, here is a good piece that gets to the heart of the success of populism: the rejection of the hypocritical and corrupt liberal democrats. This is the same reason […]

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Climate Crisis

BRAVE NEW EUROPE – To decarbonise the planet we shall have to definancialise media

December 17, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

One of the great hindrances of dealing with climate change is mainstream media. On the one side private media, which serves the interests of investors and advertisers. On the other side state media, serving the […]

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Climate Crisis

Corporate Europe Observatory – The distorted priorities of the French EU Council Presidency

December 17, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Nothing changes in the EU: neo-liberalism, neo-liberalism, and still more neo-liberalism – and much more inequality. The Corporate Europe Observatory is a non-profit research and campaign group whose declared aim is to “expose any effects […]

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Economics

Eurostat: EU records trade deficit as gas from Russia and Norway takes its toll

December 17, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Imports to the EU from Russia and Norway increased year on year 59.1 and 56.4 percent respectively for the period January to October. It is only thanks a rapidly increasing trade surplus with Britain (27 […]

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National Politics

Robin McAlpine – What is Society?

December 16, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Britain is trying to come to grips with what community responsibility is, especially as its elite shows its complete disrespect for any such thing. Robin McAlpine is the director of the Scottish think and do […]

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Economics

Michael Peters, Magdalena Senn – Shrink Finance, for Prosperity

December 16, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Why too much finance harms the European economy and society Read here

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

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Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

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Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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