Fake News
Robert Crawford: How media makes impact of US forever wars invisible
A new book by Norman Solomon breaks down the ways the devastation suffered by civilians rarely comes into public view Read HERE
Month: July 2023
Economics
Steve Keen – The New Economics: A Manifesto
The Italian Edition of The New Economics: A Manifesto (Keen 2021) will be published in November by Meltemi, and I will attend the BookCity book fair in Milan to launch the book on November 18th. […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – Spain: another swing to the right in Europe?
A right-wing government would have made things worse for Spanish working people. They almost came into office because of the failure of the social democratic government before Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of […]
Climate Crisis
Sofia Monsalve, Shalmali Gutta – Corporate Takeover of the Global Food System Should Not Get UN Approval
The U.N. should address issues such as land concentration, so that peasant agroecology can have a real chance to flourish and make a significant contribution to tackling hunger, climate change, and biodiversity loss Sofia Monsalve […]
Economics
Matthew Karnitschnig: Rust Belt on the Rhine
The deindustrialization of Germany: If Europe’s economic motor stalls, the Continent’s already polarized political landscape will shudder Read HERE
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker: Still on a knife’s edge? German federal government fails to recognise the true economic situation
Anyone in the civilised world who wants to drive a car must prove that he can correctly assess the direction of movement and speed of his vehicle, master the aids of stabilisation and gain a […]
Economics
Richard D. Wolff – Why Capitalism Is Leaving the U.S. in Search of Profit
How US capitalism ceased to be the only game in town and its effects on the US and the rest of the world. Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of […]
Economics
Carlo Clericetti – Illusory European Union and the Stockholm syndrome
The new geopolitical situation, which has profoundly changed the globalisation process, shows the enormous limits of a Union born thirty years ago on very different assumptions. But the EU ruling classes do not seem to […]
National Politics
Radhika Desai – Why the Ukraine Conflict will Unravel NATO and Biden
If the US cannot ensure military victory, its utility to Europe can only be limited. And if Biden’s has failed in this intermediate Russian stage, it can hardly go onto its final, Chinese one. Radhika […]
Economics
Macro & Cheese – Michael Hudson: Is the US a Failed State?
Is the US a failed state? Well, with a paralyzed economy, debt deflation, and a ruling elite waging class warfare on labor, what else should we call it? [00:01:43] Steven Grumbine: All right. This is […]