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Month: January 2023

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Melvin Goodman – A Costly and Prolonged Cold War Now Seems a Certainty

January 31, 2023 David Shirreff 0

A serious turning point is being ignored by the policy community as well as the pundit and academic communities Melvin A. Goodman is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and a professor […]

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Climate Crisis

András Lukács – Fuel to the Fire 

January 31, 2023 David Shirreff 0

Forty-two reasons why fuel tax cuts and price caps just add fuel to the fire András Lukács is is president of Clean Air Action Group (CAAG), a national association of Hungarian environmental NGOs which has been active […]

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Finance

Eurostat: Contingent liabilities and non-performing loans in 2021

January 31, 2023 David Shirreff 0

In 2020 and 2021, government guarantees provided to third parties in the EU increased notably, following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic – especially in Germany. Read Here  

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Globalisation

The Washington Post: Short on time, Biden sought new Ukraine tank plan to break stalemate

January 31, 2023 David Shirreff 0

How the US and Germany reached that tank deal. Amid growing discord, a new proposal and a week of nonstop negotiations finally resolved the dispute, as Germany relented on Leopards and the US pledged (eventually) […]

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Climate Crisis

Oeko-Institut: Certified CO2 storage in soils? A critical review

January 31, 2023 David Shirreff 0

The EU criteria on CO2 storage are not sufficient to ensure that certifiable activities on agricultural land and in forests will meet high enough standards, says the Oeko-Institut. Read Here Photo: Einboeck.official

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Economics

Eurostat: GDP up by 0.1% in the euro area and stable in the EU

January 31, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

Eurostat claims that GDP up by 0.1% in the euro area and stable in the EU. How did they do it? Just look at Ireland and its tax avoidance economy. 15.7% growth in Q4. The […]

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Economics

Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson – What Causes Inflation?

January 30, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

What is inflation? What causes it? What are the problems in how the Federal Reserve and other central banks respond to it? Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic […]

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Uncategorized

David Jamieson, Anton Jäger: Protesting Alone? The left and the death of mass politics

January 30, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Conter’s latest podcast sees editor David Jamieson speak to academic researcher and writer Anton Jäger about the crisis of civil society and the decline of mass politics. Taking as a starting point the seminal study […]

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Economics

Shaun Richards: The German economy contracts as inflation picks up on both Spain and Italy

January 30, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Germany is entering recession, despite predictions from the great and the good that it wouldn’t. Read the article HERE.

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Media

Jonathan Cook: Why the western media is afraid of Julian Assange

January 30, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Jonathan Cook’s speech from an event in London on the media and democracy. Cross-posted from Jonathan Cook’s Substack During an interview back in 2011, Julian Assange made an acute observation about the role of what […]

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The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington

March 2, 2023 0

Book Review by Michael Roberts Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington are authors of The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilises our Governments and Warps our Economies.  They launched their book with […]

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When McKinsey comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Walt Bogdanovitch and Michael Forsythe

January 8, 2023 0

Book Review by Roger Steer In January 2021 Brave New Europe published “The Americanisation of European Healthcare” which was my attempt to describe the forces at work to change the way healthcare is delivered in […]

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