EU politics
Politico – German conservatives break with Merkel on migration
The Christian Democrats breaking with Merkel was inevitable eventually, especially given the AfD’s surging support. Read the article HERE.
Month: December 2023
Corruption
EU watchdog radio: Qatargate – one year later, what changed?
It’s one year since the Qatargate corruption scandal exploded across the EU institutions and a good time to review if and how things have changed in the Brussels Bubble. In this episode, Joana Louçã talks to Corporate […]
Climate Crisis
Fadhel Kaboub – Climate Reparations
Listen HERE Fadhel Kaboub talks about the concept of climate reparations and its significance in tackling the climate crisis. True reparations go beyond financial compensation; they must include transferring technology, repairing our ecosystem, and restructuring […]
Geopolitics
Chris Hedges – The Evil Israel Does is the Evil Israel Gets
Israel’s settler colonial project perpetuates the cycle of violence against the indigenous inhabitants of historic Palestine. Palestinians have been forced to speak back in the language Israel speaks. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist […]
Geopolitics
Robert A. Pape: Israel’s failed bombing campaign in Gaza
“…. never in history has a bombing campaign caused the targeted population to revolt against its own government”: insightful article on bombing of Gaza which has been so destructive of human life & community infrastructure” […]
Geopolitics
Jeremy Corbyn: ‘Look at Gaza — Our Political Class Only Pays Lip Service to Human Rights’
Today marks 75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But, as Gaza shows, it is being buried under the rubble along with the human beings whose rights it was written to protect, writes […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck: Inflation success in the USA disproves the ECB
Sometimes it is incredibly difficult to draw clear conclusions from simple facts because people have become so firmly entrenched in a particular world view that anything other than this picture does not exist. If, for […]
Climate Crisis
Kevin Anderson – A habitable Earth can no longer afford the rich – and that could mean me and you
The problem are the rich and their corporations. Not only the massive CO2 they produce, but that they have the power to hinder progress towards stopping the climate crisis, especially with their control of mainstream […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – Napoleon’s war economy
Napoleon lost because Britain could outspend and out-manufacture him. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Ridley Scott’s new film on Napoleon Bonaparte has been […]
Economics
Shaun Richards: For all the recovery hype the economy of Greece is still in a severe economic depression
Let me wish Greece well as there is a long road ahead on what may well be one of the longest economic depressions ever seen. Read HERE