EU politics
Al Jazeera: Turkey’s Erdogan defies pressure over Sweden’s NATO application
Erdogan continues to play hardball even after his election victory. Read the article HERE.
Month: June 2023
Economics
Michael Roberts – Developing debt disaster
The global south debt crisis is escalating – debt cancellation is the only effective and just solution. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Next […]
EU politics
Aufhe Bunga Bunga – Silvio Berlusconi: An Oral History
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi died on 12 June 2023 at the age of 86. In this special episode of the Aufhe Bunga Bunga podcast, we say goodbye to the towering figure of the […]
Environment
Stéphane Arditi, Marco Musso and Roberta Arbinolo – Lost in Transit: EU Waste Management Fees fail to follow Second-Hand Exports to Africa
The fees paid by producers to support waste management costs often fail to travel that far. A new study highlights what this means for African economies. Stéphane Arditi, Marco Musso and Roberta Arbinolo are contributors to Meta […]
Energy
Bela Galgóczi: A Fight for Every Job – De-Carbonising Europe’s Cars
The shift to electric cars is gaining momentum, with huge implications for millions of workers. The priority for trade unions is to secure jobs and workers’ rights. But what will a just transition mean for […]
Corruption
David Jamieson – Scotland Is A Society In Decline
Catalonia made a bollocks of its independence movement. In Scotland it is worse. They have fallen on their swords and do not even know it. David Jamieson is editor of Conter, a Scottish anti-capitalist website. […]
Corruption
Thomas Fazi: The left was blinded by Berlusconi
Those who succeeded him were much worse Read HERE
Economics
Wyn Grant, Alan Greer: How has UK agricultural policy changed since Brexit?
Processes of de-Europeanisation in the British agricultural sector have been uneven following the UK’s exit from the EU, with significant divergence in some areas and continuity in others. Read HERE Des Blenkinsopp/Wikimedia Commons
Fake News
Double Down News – The Roger Waters Interview deleted by Twitter
As not only press freedom, but also intellectual freedom and freedom of speech are under attack by tanking Authoritarian Liberalism, we felt it important to post things that are being banned so that people understand […]
Economics
Economics In Ten – Hyman P. Minsky
At the height of the financial crisis in 2008, the late Queen Elizabeth II asked economists at the London School of Economics the obvious question “why did nobody notice it?”. Doubtless there was much muttering […]