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George Monbiot: Freedom’s Prison

February 7, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

It’s not us the government intends to liberate. It’s the asset strippers, money launderers, property developers and oligarchs on whose behalf it operates. Read here Photo: Bill Gates and von der Leyen – Lukasz Kobus/European […]

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Richard Murphy – Reversing QE could be a recipe for economic disaster

February 6, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is a long, but highly interesting piece explaining central bank policy in raising interest rates. Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting, Sheffield University Management School. Chartered accountant. Co-founder of the […]

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Austerity

Alessandra Mezzadri – UCU Strike: Neoliberal capitalism and the commodification of social reproduction, from our home to our classroom

February 6, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

On 14 February a UK wide strike in Higher Education will commence (at Goldsmiths it already has). Alessandra Mezzadri is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at SOAS Cross-posted from Developing Economics To donate to he UCU […]

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Prime Economics: Jeremy Smith – Inflation and pay – Doing the wrong Something

February 6, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Whatever the Bank of England is doing in the hope of reducing inflation, it is the opposite of what it needed. Read here

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Jens Weinreich – IOC: The legacy of Thomas Bach

February 6, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

For decades the IOC has been plagued by scandals, commercialism, corruption, and authoritarianism. Things are not getting better Jens Weinreich is a German Journalist Cross-posted from Jen’s blog Sport & Politics IOC President Thomas Bach […]

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New Climate Institute – Major companies largely fail net zero climate pledge test

February 6, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Many of the world’s biggest companies are failing to meet their own targets on tackling climate change, according to a study of 25 corporations. The New Climate Institute is a a non-profit research institute for […]

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Economics

Equals – Branko Milanović: An Incredible Explosion of Inequality

February 5, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

We are witnessing a COVID-19 driven explosion in inequality. This week, Oxfam released its annual report, Inequality Kills, showing that the pandemic is killing at least 1 person every 4 seconds, while the ten richest […]

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EU politics

Wolfgang Streeck – Absent Without Leave:The European Union in the Corona Pandemic

February 5, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

How did the European Union respond to the Covid-19 pandemic? The first part of the paper analyzes the logic of the EU’s multi-level politics as it relates to the relationship between national and supranational decision-making […]

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National Politics

Jonathan Pie – “God Bless America” or How did Britain come to elect a liar as Prime Minister

February 5, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is the sort of opinion piece, although satire, we should be seeing instead of the cant and drivel of mainstream media. “Seriously I can just come out and say it? Call him a liar?” […]

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The Dig: Daniela Gabor and Ndongo Samba Sylla on how financial power has shaped the global economic order from colonialism through Bretton Woods, the Washington Consensus, and today’s Wall Street Consensus.

February 5, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Explains how our global economic systems link up with the political ones, from the IMF’s structural adjustment to “public-private partnerships” Listen Here  

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Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia – A Critical History by Marko Grdešić and Mislav Žitko

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Book Review by Branko Milanovic´ When on 28 June of 1948 Joseph Stalin wrote a latter on behalf of the Cominform to ask Yugoslavia’s communists to get rid of the “Titoist clique” and to return […]

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Complicit – Britain’s role in Israel’s genocide by Peter Oborne

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Book Review by Martin Shaw Cross.posted from Declassified UK As British people have turned against Israel’s destruction of Gaza, leading figures in its present and former governing parties still deny that Israel has committed even […]

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