Climate Crisis
Transport & Environment: Food vs fuel: Europe burns 19 million bottles of sunflower and rapeseed oil every day in cars
Corporate profits are the goal of the EU, not the common good or environment Read Here
Month: June 2022
Economics
Climate Crisis
Dean Baker – A Cold War with China, Global Warming, and Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
A lengthy but brilliant piece that ticks off one important box after the other. This is what we should be concerned about. This is what will determine our future. Dean Baker is a Senior Economist […]
National Politics
Craig Murray: The Pointless Keir Starmer
Starmer has not only acted to purge the Labour Party of socialism, he also offers so very little of a meaningful alternative to the Tories that there is very little danger of the Tories being […]
Climate Crisis
Alarabiya News: Germany Pushes for G-7 Reversal on Fossil Fuels in Climate Blow
This is what always happens when you have a Green Party in government Read Here
Economics
Grace Blakeley: Don’t Blame Workers for Price Rises – Blame the Profiteers
The establishment wants you to blame workers for price rises, but wages have flatlined for a decade – the real cause of inflation is the profiteering of big corporations and the super-rich Read Here
Economics
Philip Cunliffe: This is not a class war
The unions didn’t cause our summer of discontent Read Here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Taxation is an indispensable anti-inflation policy tool in Modern Monetary Theory
Tax rate changes can be used to manipulate spending Read Here Photo: MarkBuckawicki available under the Creative CommonsCC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication
National Politics
Responsible Statecraft: Why Russian intellectuals are hardening support for war in Ukraine
Horrified by the invasion, centrist elites like Dmitri Trenin nonetheless sense the US is using the conflict to destroy their country. Read Here
National Politics
Noam Chomsky – US Is Playing With the Future of Civilization in Order to Weaken Russia
A look at geopolitical aspects that played a role in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Noam Chomsky is a linguist, philosopher, and political activist. He is the laureate professor of linguistics at the University of […]