Corruption
Vila Web: Spain fails in all Council of Europe recommendations on corruption prevention
GRECO report is very harsh on the Spanish government’s inaction and puts emphasis on police corruption Read Here
Year: 2022
Climate Crisis
PIK: Food crisis due to Ukraine war calls for demand-side action: less animal products, less waste, and greening EU agricultural policy
The global food system is impacted by the war in Ukraine, adding to the direct humanitarian and security crisis caused by the Russian aggression. Ukraine and Russia are major producers of grains and fertilizers, yet […]
Economics
Prime Economics: T Sabri Öncü – A War No One Can Win – Ukraine and the Weaponisation of Everything
The Russian invasion of Ukraine started on 24 February 2022. Since then, several thousand combatants from both sides and more than 500 Ukrainian civilians have died, bombs have ruined many cities, and more than two […]
Climate Crisis
New Scientist: Most schemes to capture and reuse carbon actually increase emissions
Carbon capture and utilisation technologies, which aim to pull carbon dioxide from the air and use it for emissions-lowering processes, emit more carbon than they remove Read Here Photo: Mm907 licensed under the Creative Commons […]
Corruption
Lee Jones – Ukraine: The Reality of Sovereignty
Pursuing national sovereignty means keeping foreign powers out of your domestic politics not inviting them in, as Ukraine’s leaders have been doing for decades Lee Jones is Reader in International Politics at Queen Mary University […]
Economics
Jonathan Cook: Palestine is a loud echo of Britain’s colonial past – and a warning of the future
In moving from Nazareth back to the UK, I have stepped out of the frying pan and into the fire Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, since 2001 Cross-posted from Jonathan’s […]
National Politics
Philip Cunliffe – Brexit from NATO
“It is Russia that has invaded Ukraine, but it is NATO’s high-handed indifference to political reality that has provoked the war. Reckless is a polite way of describing NATO’s policy.” Philip Cunliffe is Senior Lecturer […]
Economics
Corrado Macchiarelli – The Ukraine war intensifies the dilemma facing monetary policymakers
Russia’s war in Ukraine, in addition to being a human tragedy, represents a challenge for the global economy. It calls into question monetary policymakers’ strategy since it will simultaneously harm growth and put upward pressure […]
Climate Crisis
Vila Web: London, Paris, Rome and Milan criticize pulling back of Barcelona’s Low Emission Zone
While “illiberal” Poland and Hungary are now the EU heroes (and German hypocrisy is being politely ignored), Spain’s fascist justice system keeps barrelling along. Read Here Photo: IonutDragu licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike […]
Climate Crisis
Bill Mitchell: The current inflation still looks to be a transitory phenomenon
The world is reeling from one crisis to the next, most of which are not resolving themselves. It is no wonder that there is inflation. But none of these can be rectified with interest rate […]