Energy
Harrison Stetler: Emmanuel Macron’s Government Is Ordering Striking Oil Workers Back to Work
France’s oil refineries’ strikes is developing into a major national crisis. Read the article HERE
Month: October 2022
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Michael Roberts – China: Xi’s third term – part one: growth, investment and consumption
China is unlikely to follow the advice of western economists, and with good reason Cross-posted from Michael Roberts blog China’s Congress of the Communist Party takes place this week. This is an important event not […]
EU politics
Cihan Tuğal: Ottoman revival?
Turkey is guided by the confused worldview of President Erdoğan Read the article HERE
Climate Crisis
Craig Dalzell: Burning Money
An example from a Scottish village that could be anywhere in Europe – buildings are still being constructed as if climate change is not a thing Cross-posted from Common Weal Britain is heading into one […]
National Politics
Yanis Varoufakis – The US is no ally of the Left – in Ukraine or anywhere
Anthony Barnett is wrong – Russia’s invasion does not make America into a defender of democracy Yanis Varoufakis, former Finance Minister of Greece, Professor of Economics at the University of Athens, and author of several […]
National Politics
Noam Chomsky – 20 Years After Iraq War Vote, US Continues to Flout International Law
This week marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. congressional vote to authorize the deadly war on Iraq, which according to some estimates, killed between 800,000 and 1.3 million people. Noam Chomsky shares his thoughts […]
Economics
Human Development and the Path to Freedom by Leandro Prados de la Escosura
Book Review by Branko Milanović After two and a half years of enforced zooming, that is of giving or attending lectures online, I listened today, at UNDP offices in New York, to an excellent book […]
National Politics
The Ferret: IHRA definition of antisemitism rejected at Aberdeen University
Aberdeen University has rejected a “working definition” of antisemitism as recommended by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance for governments and organisations around the world to adopt. Read Here Image: QueenBarenziah
Climate Crisis
Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – Can we get by without growth, growth, growth?
Before her plans were ripped up, the UK’s newest Prime Minister was promising growth, growth, growth in an economy that has avoided it for a long time. And she was going to do it through […]
Economics
Eurostat: Euro area international trade in goods deficit €50.9 bn, €64.7 bn deficit for EU
The first estimate for euro area exports of goods to the rest of the world in August 2022 was €231.1 billion, an increase of 24.0% compared with August 2021 (€186.4 bn). Imports from the rest […]