Economics
Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker: Eastern Europe facing a new crisis
The challenges facing Eastern EU members’ economies Read HERE
Month: October 2023
EU politics
Nick Corbishley – Are the Walls Finally Closing In on Ursula von der Leyen?
Creeping censorship, corruption, authoritarianism, economic decline and support for war: these are five of the defining characteristics of the Von der Leyen era. Is it any wonder that internal opposition is on the rise? Published […]
Geopolitics
Richard Falk – Refusal to Back Cease-Fire Is an Endorsement of Israel’s Genocidal Attack on Gaza
Gaza is considered in international law to be an occupied territory – thus, it has not “right” to carpet bomb the enclave in “self-defence”. Richard Falk is an international law and international relations scholar who […]
EU politics
Ben Wray: Western imperialism and leftist complacency
The United States remains the most dangerous force on the planet, and that won’t change any time soon. Ben Wray is a journalist based in the Basque Country and co-ordinator of Brave New Europe’s Gig […]
Climate Crisis
João Camargo – Hydrogen as a threat to decarbonization
We hear “green hydrogen,” but it’s mostly industry-backed propaganda when 99% of all hydrogen produced in the world comes from fossil fuels. João Camargo is a climate activist in grassroots movement Climaximo in Portugal and […]
EU politics
Daniele Albertazzi – Giorgia Meloni: How the realities of office trumped the Italian Prime Minister’s radicalism
Apart from some nasty anti-abortion laws, Meloni has transformed from Mussolini’s heir to your typical pro-Brussels, pro-Washington politician. In ‘Other News’. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Craig Murray – Genocide Unfolding
I find it almost impossible to believe that this genocide is under way with the active support of almost all western governments. Craig Murray is a British former diplomat, political activist, human rights campaigner, blogger, […]
Economics
Danny Dorling – Brexit, a failed project in a failing state
The social failures of Brexit are, in one sense just part of a long history of social failure in a Britain dominated by England, an England dominated by the richest subjects of the monarch, people […]
Energy
Nikita Sud – Victims of the green energy boom? The Indonesians facing eviction over a China-backed plan to turn their island into a solar panel ‘ecocity’
The transition to green energy, far from creating a green new deal for all, is actually reinforcing entrenched inequalities and hierarchies. Nikita Sud is Professor of the Politics of Development, University of Oxford Cross-posted from […]
Media
Robin McAlpine: Dark things are happening in Britain’s media
A few web searches will reveal that the UK media is, as one, suppressing and hiding crucial information about the world from you. It is no longer wise to assume that you’re being told the […]