Economics
Ann Pettifor: Why are rents rising at record rates?
On the perverse impact of debt deflation after a period of debt inflation Read HERE
Month: September 2023
National Politics
Caitlin Johnstone – People Are Dying For Inches In Ukraine, The “World’s Largest Arms Fair”
The Ukrainians have let themselves be led down a path of self-destruction. The only exit, peace, is the one option currently not permitted by its allies. Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-supported independent journalist from Melbourne, […]
Climate Crisis
Jason Hickel: The Double Objective of Democratic Ecosocialism
We face a double crisis as the twenty-first century unfolds. On the one hand, it is an ecological crisis: climate change and several other Earth System pressures are exceeding planetary boundaries to a dangerous extent. […]
National Politics
Geoff Roberts: Ukraine – last chance for a negotiated peace?
The next few weeks could be Ukraine’s last chance to grasp the flower of safety from the nettle of war by negotiating a compromise peace with Russia that would safeguard its future statehood and sovereignty. […]
EU politics
Wolfgang Knorr – Climate Change: When Official Panic Sets In
Governments should not only be reacting to weather disasters, but more importantly to the climate disaster. Wolfgang Knorr is a climate scientist, consultant for the European Space Agency and guest researcher at the Department of […]
National Politics
Tarik Cyril Amar – The West’s Real Problem Isn’t Going to Be Russia, or China, but Germany
Is Germany once again reaching peak instablility and what could that mean for Europe and the world? Tarik Cyril Amar (@TarikCyrilAmar) is a historian from Germany, currently at Koç University, Istanbul, expert on Ukraine, Russia, […]
Austerity
Stewart Lansley – Rethinking ‘Crowding Out’ and the Return of ‘Private Affluence and Public Squalor’
The history of ‘crowding out’, and its use as a justification for austerity and state deflation from its origins in the 1920s to its latest post-2010 incarnation Stewart Lansley is Visiting Fellow at the School […]
Economics
Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson, Pepe Escobar – BRICS or NATO? G20 or G77? Summits debate changing world order
RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 17th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the show that examines the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of our times. I’m Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: […]
National Politics
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies – A Global Call for Peace in Ukraine Emerges at UN General Assembly
“We want peace, in our country, in Ukraine, in Europe, in the world. Peace and the security that comes with it.,” said Hungary President Katalin Novak. “There is no alternative to peace.” Medea Benjamin is […]
Economics
Ted Reese – Capitalism in terminal decline: the compelling empirical data trends
The economic necessity of ‘state monopoly socialism’ Ted Reese is the author of Terminal Decline and The End of Capitalism: The Thought of Henryk Grossman Follow Ted on Medium, Twitter and Linkt.ree @grossmanite Karl Marx regarded […]