Economics
El País: No Future EU for Spanish Youth
Spanish Youth unemployment is now over one third Read here Students at Barcelona’s Autonomous University in late March.CRISTÓBAL CASTRO
Year: 2021
Economics
Danisha Kazi – Banks becoming landlords for higher profits
Lloyds Bank’s plans to become a private landlord highlight how banks and institutional investors treat housing solely as an asset to squeeze out ever greater profits. For the rest of us it is simply a […]
Economics
Janina Hirth, Markus Rhein – Algorithmic assembly lines
Digitalization and resistance in the retail sector Janina Hirth and Markus Rhein are members of the tie network (transnationals information exchange), a global grassroots network of workers active in workplaces and communities Cross-posted from TNI […]
Finance
Taroa Zúñiga Silva – Why Delivery Workers Across the Planet Are Rising Up Against Exploitation
Even before the crisis of the pandemic, food delivery companies have seen their profits skyrocket while their so-called “self-employed” workers suffer rights violations and were banned from unionising. Taroa Zúñiga Silva is the co-editor with […]
Climate Crisis
Paul Brown – Nuclear industry’s unfounded claims let it survive
The nuclear industry’s unfounded claims let it rely on “dark arts”, ignoring much better ways to cut carbon emissions Paul Brown, a founding editor of Climate News Network, is a former environment correspondent of The […]
EU politics
Jonathan Cook – How the IHRA antisemitism definition became a pro-Israel cudgel
New research charts a five-year campaign by highly partisan, pro-Israel lobby groups to mislead the international community about the nature of what has been widely described as the “gold standard” definition of antisemitism. Read here
Economics
Richard Murphy – The economy has a long way to go before we see a recovery
The discourse concerning post-Covid has been a sudden return to normality, but normality does not seem to be coming back for all; mostly for the wealthy. Richard Murphy is a Visiting Professor of Practice in […]
Fake News
Patrick Cockburn – Focusing Purely on Injustices in China and Russia with a Cold War Mindset Damages Human Rights Everywhere
The real purpose of this gambit from the point of view of those waging information wars is to impose a convenient silence over wrongdoings by our side while focusing exclusively on theirs. Patrick Cockburn is the […]
Economics
Thomas Piketty: Rights for poor countries
The Covid-19 crisis, the most serious global health crisis in a century, forces us to fundamentally rethink the notion of international solidarity. Beyond the right to produce vaccines and medical equipment, it is the whole […]
Economics
Jon Queally – Share Vaccine Recipes With Poor During Pandemic? One of World’s Richest Men Bill Gates Says ‘No’
“Who appointed this billionaire head of global health?” asked one critic. “Oh yeah, he did.” Jon Queally is managing editor for Common Dreams Cross-posted from Common Dreams Bill Gates, one of the world’s richest men […]