Corruption
Andreas Sartzekis: Rail disaster in Greece: “Our dead, their profits”
This article on ‘International Viewpoint’ documents the dilapidated and privatised state of Greece’s railways. Read the article HERE.
Year: 2023
EU politics
Clare Daly, Mick Wallace – The EU’s Turn To Militarism
The transformation of the European Union from an economic union widely associated with the ideal of peace on the European continent to an aspiring center for military power. Clare Daly is a member of the […]
Corruption
Politico: EU watchdog probes Commission’s business trip rules amid Qatargate
The EU Commission’s top transport official took free flights to Doha while his team were negotiating a major aviation deal. Read the article HERE.
Uncategorized
Branko Milanović: On charisma and greyness under Communism
The point was to be “the average man”. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest book is “Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World” This article […]
Finance
Tech Won’t Save Us: What new EU rules might mean for gig workers
Paris Marx, host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast, is joined by Ben Wray, Gig Economy Project co-ordinator, to discuss the fight to win a pro-worker Platform Work Directive in the European Union, Uber’s […]
National Politics
Kyiv Independent – Ukrainian soldiers in Bakhmut: ‘Our troops are not being protected’
“During their brief visits to the nearby town of Kostiantynivka, Ukrainian infantrymen told the Kyiv Independent of unprepared, poorly-trained battalions being thrown into the front line meat grinder to survive as best they could with […]
Economics
Reuters: How crypto giant Binance became a hub for hackers, fraudsters and drug traffickers
For five years, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance served as a conduit for the laundering of at least $2.35 billion in illicit funds, a Reuters investigation has found. Read HERE
EU politics
Dominique Soguel: Will exiled Kurds pay the price of Sweden’s NATO entry?
Exiled Kurds in Sweden fear the government may sacrifice them in a grubby deal with Turkey for NATO entry. Dominique Soguel is a Swiss-based freelance journalist currently filing for the Christian Science Monitor. Cross-posted from […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – China and the ‘experts’
Possible solutions to China’s current economic woes. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog The annual National People’s Congress kicked off today, 5 February, with […]
Economics
Steve Keen – About sixty years later, how relevant and actual is the vision of the American economy and economic system proposed by John K. Galbraith in his “The new industrial state”?
Reading The New Industrial State (Galbraith and Galbraith 1967) again, six decades after it was first published, highlighted for me just how far economic theory has retreated from reality since the 1960s. Steve Keen is […]