Climate Crisis
Bill Mitchell: Deep Adaptation
I have been considering the concept of – Deep Adaptation – which emerged from the work of British academic Jem Bendell in 2018. Read Here
Month: August 2022
EU politics
Cyprus Mail: Cuba to send five hundred doctors to Italy’s Calabria region
Another EU success story! Cuba will send nearly 500 doctors to the Calabria region of southern Italy, Cuban state media reported this week, part of a broader program that sends surplus medics from the communist-run […]
National Politics
Patrick Cockburn – The Nuclear Threat is Now at the Centre of the Ukraine Crisis
It was supposed to be such a lovely war. We would stop buying Russian gas and ruin their economy and topple Putin. What became of that? And now this. Patrick Cockburn is the author of War in […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – Will global inflation subside?
The world economy seems to be taking one blow after the other, some like the worldwide drought not even expected. Beginning in October the EU will see an inflation surge as Germany will have an […]
Climate Crisis
Balkan Green Energy News – Is EU to sacrifice Balkans to secure resources for its energy transition
The European Commission wants reliable supply chains for the materials that the EU needs to accelerate the switch to renewable energy sources and a green economy. The extraction of lithium, copper and other necessary commodities, […]
Economics
DeStatis – Germany: Producer prices in July 2022: +37.2% on July 2021
Looks like inflation and that combined with recession. Well done German political class. No solutions in sight beside neo-classical economic nostrums and those are not solutions at all. Producer prices of industrial products (domestic market), […]
Deregulation
Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – Is it time to revert to more state ownership?
It’s a question being asked more and more. How many of the things that we privatised should be brought back under state control, as energy companies record massive profits, yet those on low incomes are […]
Economics
Danny Rodrik – The New Productivism Paradigm?
There are signs of a major reorientation toward an economic policy framework that is rooted in production, work, and localism instead of finance, consumerism, and globalism. It might just turn into a new policy model […]
Media
Jonathan Cook – Those angry at Rushdie’s stabbing have been missing in action over a far bigger threat to our freedom
The Satanic Verses novelist is championed by western liberals not because he has bravely articulated difficult truths but because of who his enemies are Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, […]
Economics
Robin McAlpine – Left-smearing is back in fashion
With utter predictability, a crisis in capitalism comes along, people start looking to solutions from the left, so the establishment starts propagating conspiracy theories… Robin McAlpine is the director of the Scottish think and do […]