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Matt Karp: We can’t ignore class dealignment
Data shows left-wing politics is increasingly isolated from its traditional base among the working class. Read the article HERE.
Year: 2023
Energy
Diego Lasarte: The world needs Lithium more than ever, and Latin America knows it
Scholz was in Latin America last week looking to strike lithium deals, but governments in the ‘lithium triangle’ may be less willing to give it up than they were in the past. Cross-posted from Other […]
Media
Francesca Newton: Journalists Are Being Arrested Under Anti-Protest Laws
In Tribune magazine, Francesca Newton finds that the UK Government’s draconian anti-protest laws are being used to arrest journalists reporting on demonstrations. Read the article HERE.
Climate Crisis
Ewan McGaughey: Central banks must crack down on fossil fuels to tackle inflation
If price stability really is the mandate of Central Banks, then why don’t they crack down on the main driver of price inflation – fossil fuels? Ewan McGaughey is a Reader in Law, specialising in […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker – The ECB’s interest rate hike is a grandiose mistake
The ECB’s decision on 2 February to raise interest rates again by 0.5 percentage points and to announce an equally large increase for March will go down in history as a grand misjudgement. Although it […]
Economics
Shaun Richards – Central bankers are experiencing a complete loss of credibility
Central banks have lost control of both the narrative and the markets. Read Here
National Politics
Jeffrey D. Sachs – The New Geopolitics
A long but interesting article about various views concerning current geopolitics Jeffrey D. Sachs is Professor at Columbia University, is Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and President of the UN Sustainable […]
Economics
Ralph Nader: The Progenitor of Inequalities – Corporate Personhood vs. Human Beings
The biggest prize of all for the uses of corporate-dominant inequality over real people is the control of the Congress, state legislatures, country boards, city councils, and elections, along with the selection of judges. Ralph […]
EU politics
Robin McAlpine – Why being in Wales makes me happy
What’s different about the Welsh independence movement. Robin McAlpine is founder of the Scottish think-and-do tank Common Weal Cross-posted from Common Weal It is becoming a real pleasure to me when I get to visit […]
EU politics
Gig Economy Project – “We managed to reverse the balance of power”: Interview with Leïla Chaibi MEP
Piero Valmassoi, EU policy expert and activist at the Maison des Livreurs (House of Couriers) in Brussels, speaks to Leïla Chaibi MEP after the vote of the European Parliament on the Platform Work Directive [2 […]