Economics
Bill Mitchell: Corporate welfare abounds
A couple of examples of why corporations can do what they want. Read here
Year: 2021
EU politics
Toni Strubell, Núria Bassa – Interview: Ben Wray on Democracy and Independence Movements in Spain and Scotland
Ben Wray (Falkirk, Scotland /1989) is a freelance writer and journalist at BRAVE NEW EUROPE, coordinating the Gig Economy Project which analyses new forms of precarious work in the digital economy. He is the co-author […]
Climate Crisis
David Attenborough – Speech at COP26
The question is if corporations care and if the corrupt political class of the industrialised nations is in the least interested?
Climate Crisis
EURACTIV – LEAKED: Paper on gas and nuclear’s inclusion in EU green finance rules
A proposal to bring both nuclear power and natural gas into the bloc’s green finance taxonomy is circulating in Brussels. The paper has been branded as a “scientific disgrace” by campaigners who warned it would […]
Climate Crisis
Dean Baker – Combatting Global Warming: The Solution to China’s Demographic “Crisis”
There is much talk about a coming economic crisis in China due to demographics. This could be turned into a success story. Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy […]
EU politics
Gig Economy Project – “We are what the companies don’t want to exist”: Interview with Nuria Soto of ‘RidersXDerechos’
Nuria Soto of the ‘RidersXDerechos’ movement tells the Gig Economy Project that the Riders Law has its problems but has created an easier “basis for struggle”. Lea este artículo en español AQUI The Gig Economy […]
Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory – COP26: the biggest finance greenwash event in history
Some of the worst financiers of the worst polluters helped write the script – and more, they will implement the decisions after the summit in Glasgow. Read here
Climate Crisis
Elena Basilio Puig, Marguerite Culot – The Blue Side of (De)Growth
The vast oceans of the planet provide myriad resources and are key for our survival – and yet the burgeoning narrative of the so-called Blue Economy threatens to entrench the same fallacy of endless growth […]
Fake News
John Pilger – Why Julian Assange’s Inhumane Prosecution Imperils Justice for Us All
Julian Assange is a truth-teller who has committed no crime but revealed government crimes and lies on a vast scale and so performed one of the great public services of my lifetime. John Pilger is […]
Economics
Michael Hudson – We Make the Rules
Economist Michael Hudson discusses the update of his book “Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire” and the financial motivations behind the US new cold war on China and Russia. Hudson has published a […]