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ILSR – Amazon’s Toll Road

December 1, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Amazon’s dominance of online retail means that small businesses have little choice but to rely on its site to reach consumers. This report finds that Amazon is exploiting its position as a gatekeeper to impose […]

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Destatis – Germany: Exports of passenger cars down 17.2% in the 3rd quarter of 2021 year on year

December 1, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

It’s good to have some numbers to form an opinion about trade development. The lack of chips and delivery bottlenecks reduced German car imports and exports Foreign trade in electric cars continued on a high […]

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euobserver: Ombudsman launches probe into Commission tobacco lobbying

December 1, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

In this new inquiry, launched by the ombudsman on her own initiative rather than following complaints and announced on Tuesday (30 November), the EU watchdog regretted that the commission still does not proactively make public […]

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Visual Capitalist: Visualizing the Accumulation of Human-Made Mass on Earth

December 1, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

The material dimensions of capitalism are staggering. In 2020, the amount of human-made mass exceeded for the first time the dry weight of all life on Earth. Its current increase corresponds to each person on […]

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UCU – UK: Major University strikes begin after bosses refuse to budge on pensions, pay & working conditions

December 1, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Since we launched BRAVE NEW EUROPE in Autumn of 2017 it seems that UK university workers have gone from one strike to another, en masse or as single universities. This is the result of the […]

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Bob Hancké – Why trade unions have a problem with the minimum wage and what can be done about it

November 30, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Swedish and Danish trade unions have been up in arms about a minimum wage proposal making its way through the corridors of Brussels and Strasbourg for a while. They have now enlisted the help of […]

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Friends of the Earth: EU Commission gives in to big biotech’s tactics to deregulate new GMOs

November 30, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Citizens’ concerns and already-proven farming solutions to climate change are dismissed Read here Marching against new GMOs (c) Via Campesina

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EEB: Delay in proposed microplastics restriction leading to irreversible pollution

November 30, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

One additional year without a restriction on microplastics could see levels of pollution equivalent to 1.6 billion plastic bottles released into the environment. Read here

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Climate Crisis

Axios: Fuel efficiency progress “is stalling” because of growth of SUVs

November 30, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

A new(ish) analysis shows that “fuel economy progress is stalling” amid the growing global popularity of SUVs and light trucks. Read here Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

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Laurie Macfarlane – Scotland is on the global frontlines of The Great Net-Zero Land Grab

November 29, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

As investors look to profit from the carbon-offset gold rush, demand for land is soaring. But letting Big Finance restore nature may come at a cost Laurie Macfarlane is economics editor at openDemocracy, and a […]

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The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform by Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian

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Book Review by Branko Milanović Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian’s The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform is a book about how China transformed itself between the Great Leap Forward and the early […]

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Germany’s Jewish Problem: Genocides Past and Present by Wieland Hoban

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Reviewed by Raymond Deane On 30 January, Uwe Becker – the so-called commissioner for Jewish life and the fight against anti-Semitism in the German state of Hesse – demanded that the organization Jewish Voice for […]

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