Corruption
Paulo Pena: Europe’s governments inflate housing prices with huge tax privileges for real estate
Part of an investigation by Investigate Europe into how house price inflation is government sponsored. Read the article HERE.
Year: 2022
Solutions
Melvin Goodman: Understanding Russian National Security
Former Soviet analyst at the CIA on how the Kremlin thinks about security Cross-posted from Counterpunch In the 1980s and 1990s, I was a member of the Russian studies group sponsored by the Brookings Institution. […]
Climate Crisis
Uuriintuya Batsaikhan: High interest rates are a threat to the green transition
High interest rates will increase the cost and slow the speed of decarbonisation, most notably in the areas of energy efficiency and renewable energy Cross-posted from the Positive Money Europe blog To reach net zero […]
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis: The Techno-Feudal Method to Musk’s Twitter Madness
Immediately after taking over Twitter and pronouncing himself Chief Twat, Elon Musk affirmed his commitment to safeguarding the platform as the “public square” where anything and everything is debated. It was a smart tactic, because […]
Climate Crisis
DeStatis: German Electricity production in the 3rd quarter of 2022: coal-generated electricity up 13.3% on the same period a year earlier
This is the German Green’s idea of a clean energy transition. More than a third of the electricity produced in Germany comes from coal-fired power plants Electricity production from natural gas up 4.5% despite high […]
Climate Crisis
Michael Roberts – COP15: the two horsemen of the apocalypse
Still another farce by governments to protect the destruction of the environment by corporations. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael’s Blog COP15 started this week […]
National Politics
Jonathan Cook – How Ben-Gvir blows apart the ‘security’ story of Israel’s occupation
What Israeli generals are really worried about is how little will change when two ultra-nationalist, religious settlers are put in charge of the occupation Jonathan Cook is the the author of three books on the […]
EU politics
Aleks Szczerbiak – Will the Polish governing camp split over the EU funding issue?
The basis of the EU is “Germany pays, the EU obeys”. The Polish government has run afoul of this rule and is now threatened with EU funds not being paid out. Aleks Szczerbiak is Professor of […]
Economics
John P. Ruehl – Sanctions Batter Russia as the Kremlin Attempts to Overcome Them
Western economic punishments on Russia risk hastening the development of sanctions evasion techniques and rival economic mechanisms outside the control of Brussels and Washington John P. Ruehl is an Australian-American journalist living in Washington, D.C. […]
Finance
Sam Pizzigati – Tax the Rich? We Did That Once
In the early 1960s, America’s richest faced a 91 percent tax rate on income in the top tax bracket. The current top-bracket rate: 37 percent. Sam Pizzigati writes on inequality for the Institute for Policy […]