Climate Crisis
Reuters: ‘Greenwashing’ is rampant in online stores, consumer authorities find
Sounds like the EU Braun Deal Read here
Year: 2021
EU politics
Ben Wray – Which way forward for gig workers’ rights? France debates ‘wage portage’
The EU is moving towards a regulation of the Gig Economy. Lobbyists in Brussels are spending fast and heavy. What is on the table up to now? Ben Wray is a freelance journalist leading BRAVE […]
EU politics
Chris Bambery – Spain Continues Violating Basic Civil Rights says ECHR
Be it governments of the far-right or faux left Social Democrats and Podemos, civil rights are apparently irrelevant in Spain writes Chris Bambery Chris Bambery is author and broadcaster. Co-author (with George Kerevan) of Catalonia […]
Economics
Richard D. Wolff – The U.S. Economy Excels at One Thing: Producing Massive Inequality
If there is one topic that mainstream media and the political class wishes to ignore, it is the egregious inequality in the West. Poverty is a phenomenon of “down there”. Richard D. Wolff is professor […]
Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory – COPA-COGECA: defending farmers in public and the agribusiness industry in private?
Over the next two weeks, the European Parliament will discuss its opinion on the European Commission’s Farm to Fork Strategy. COPA-COGECA’s suggested amendments to MEPs were leaked, and confirm once again the organisation’s problematic positions: […]
Climate Crisis
Andrew Simms – The case for an Ecological Interest Rate
Between the Anglo-American political horror shows of 2020 and the raging pandemic, something much less theatrical drifted centre stage to play a more than usually important role: interest rates. Read here
Corruption
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World by Tom Burgis
Book Review by David Shirreff First, the good news. This is undoubtedly a useful book. It is a mine of information and anecdote, cleverly told, about the kleptocrats who apparently move untroubled around the world […]
Finance
Gig Economy Project: From Gig Worker to Union Leader – Interview with Alex Marshall
Alex Marshall is President of the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) The Gig Economy Project spoke to Alex Marshall, new President of the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) and former delivery […]
EU politics
Dean Baker – The Coronavirus Vaccine Fail and International Elites
In the EU and Britain there have been egregious errors and incompetence in the handling of the COVID epidemic costing hundreds of thousands of lives. The worse the situation grows, the more lies that are […]
EU politics
Robert Tombs – Perry Anderson: A Devastating Indictment of the EU
The prominent Left-wing intellectual Perry Anderson has just published a comprehensive and crushing indictment of the EU from its beginnings to the present. Robert Tombs provides a summary for those who might balk at reading […]