Climate Crisis
Robin McAlpine: In-between before and after
One world economic order died over a decade ago, but a new one has not been created. We live in a strange in-between time – it is not too late to choose our future. Robin […]
Year: 2022
National Politics
Patrick Cockburn – The Rising Threat of Nuclear War
Stock markets have recovered so life is returning to normal – whatever that might be. The Russian invasion in Ukraine is however far from over, including the world wide dangers it contains. Patrick Cockburn is the […]
National Politics
Slavoj Žižek – From Cold War to Hot Peace
Putin’s war of conquest, which has mystified the world and led to great terror, will be discussed in today’s episode through Slavoj Zizek’s article, ‘From Cold War to Hot Peace’.
Climate Crisis
Slavoj Žižek – From Cold War to Hot Peace
In a world shaped by the iron logic of markets and national interests, Vladimir Putin’s atavistic war of conquest has mystified the “deep” strategists of realpolitik. Their mistake was to forget that under global capitalism, […]
Economics
Chris Dillow – Inflation: The Real Problem
Everybody says we have an inflation problem. Everybody is wrong. What we have is a relative price problem. Read Here Photo: Eric Kounce in public domain
Economics
Michael Roberts – The War On Inflation
Central banks struggled to meet their usual 2% annual inflation target with their usual weapons of interest rates and monetary injections. And it will be the same story in trying this time to reduce inflation […]
Climate Crisis
Transport & Environment: Food crisis: Europe burns equivalent of 15 million loaves of bread every day in cars
Europe’s biofuels lobby is pushing for more crop burning despite collapse in supplies of key grains from Ukraine and Russia and impending global food crisis Read Here CC BY 3.0
Climate Crisis
Global Energy Monitor: Coal mine methane emissions exceed those from oil or gas
The world’s coal mines emit 52.3 million tonnes of methane per year, according to a new report by Global Energy Monitor (GEM), which is greater than annual emissions from oil (39 million tonnes) or gas […]
Climate Crisis
ARC: EU Institutions – Productivity Now, Environment Maybe Later
The EU rollback on climate change picks up pace. Corporations have the EU political class in their pocket. Green lignite is around the corner. Read Here Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski Addresses European Parliament Plenary session […]
National Politics
Yanis Varoufakis: There is one solution to end the suffering in UKRAINE but the USA will torpedo it
Yanis Varoufakis talks about the only option on the table to stop the war in Ukraine and why the US might torpedo it.