Climate Crisis
PRovoke Media: 450 Climate Scientists Step Up Pressure On PR & Ad Agencies
Scientists are joining climate activists in calling on the PR and ad industries to cut ties with fossil fuel companies. Read here
Month: January 2022
EU politics
Toni Strubell, Núria Bassa – Tenen futur els idiomes sense estat de la UE?
You can read this article in English here Núria Bassa, Toni Strubell Ajuda Brave New Europe -el digital antifeixista alemany en anglès- a informar de la lluita per l’autodeterminació de Catalunya i Escòcia i a […]
Climate Crisis
The Barents Observer – Norway: “A blind investment in oil”
Norwegian environmental organisations rage as the country’s government issues a big number of new drilling licenses. Read Here
National Politics
Jeremy Corbyn: Why I OPPOSE Vaccine Mandates, COVID Passports & Big Pharma – And why that doesn’t make me Anti-Vax
What? A politician can talk about the pandemic and vaccination and still behave like an intelligent adult?
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: The European conservatives are organising while the progressives fight among themselves
The return of the EU Austerians and disaster of the French Left Read Here
National Politics
Patrick Cockburn – From Aerial Strikes to Starvation, Afghanistan’s People Bear the Brunt of the West’s Failed Taliban Tactics
Wasn’t this also one of those wars where we were going to help humanity and bring enlightenment into darkness? All it seems to have accomplished is a lot of deaths. Odd that the European political […]
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory: How corporate lobbying undermined the EU’s push to ban surveillance ads
Despite the EU’s talk about regulating the digital sphere, we uncover how Big Tech has successfully waged a major lobbying campaign to prevent a ban on their extremely profitable model of intrusive surveillance advertising. However […]
Austerity
David Jamieson – Scottish Greens follow their European friends to the Right
The Scottish Greens have joined the club of Irish, Austrian and German Green parties who have established their politics in the governing centre for the benefit of capital David Jamieson is a journalist, writer and […]
Austerity
Philipp Heimberger – Do higher public debt ratios really reduce economic growth?
The pandemic-induced crisis has seen fiscal policy relaxed. Ill-evidenced orthodoxy must not be allowed to reinstate austerity. Philipp Heimberger is Economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) Cross-posted from wiiw website Economists […]
Finance
Morgan Meaker: Gig Workers Were Promised a Better Deal. Then They Were Outsourced
A new subcontractor industry in Europe is benefiting from platforms’ efforts to clean up their image and comply with stricter employment rules. Read Here