EU politics
Politico – German farmers reignite Berlin’s budget crisis
Germany’s ludicrous fiscal rules continue to cause havoc. Read the article HERE.
Year: 2023
Geopolitics
Chris Hedges – The death of Israel
Israel’s genocide may well be triumphant, but that victory will only sow the apartheid state’s ultimate defeat. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where […]
EU politics
Lily Lynch – Conjuring trick
An overview of the politics of European states in relation to the siege of Gaza. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
Climate Crisis
João Camargo – Corrupting the Future: The Sines 4.0 Data Centre That Collapsed Portugal’s Government
The scandal which brought down Portugal’s government holds lesson about the energy transition and so much more. João Camargo is a climate activist in grassroots movement Climaximo in Portugal and in the Climate Jobs campaign. […]
Geopolitics
Peter Oborne – How Gaza changed global politics
Antonio Guterres, secretary general of the United Nations, is an unlikely revolutionary. Peter Oborne is a British journalist. His latest book is The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam, published in […]
EU politics
Workers, algorithms & the EU: Interview with Aída Ponce Del Castillo
What does the AI Act and the algorithmic management section of the Platform Work Directive mean for AI in the workplace? The Gig Economy Project is a BRAVE NEW EUROPE media network for gig workers […]
EU politics
Los Angeles Times: Germany pledged ‘never again.’ Here’s how it’s grappling with Israel’s bombing of Gaza
Since Oct. 7, Holocaust memory has increasingly been invoked in Germany to suppress debate on Hamas militants’ massacres of that day in Israel and the brutalities the Israel Defense Forces have meted out against Gaza […]
National Politics
Reuters: Serbia’s ruling SNS set to win election, Vucic declares victory
President Aleksandar Vucic declared victory in a snap parliamentary election on Sunday, after pollsters projected his ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) was on track to easily win. Based on votes counted in a sample of […]
Climate Crisis
Heiner Flassbeck – The great illusion: COP 28 and the end of fossil fuels
After all, eight years after the Paris Agreement, most of the world has now realised that there is a problem with fossil fuel producers. The conference known as COP 28, which has just ended in […]
Geopolitics
John Mearsheimer – Israel is Choosing ‘Apartheid’ or ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
December 17, 2023 Israel has gone far beyond “going after Hamas” in the first 10 weeks of its war on Gaza, according to one of the United States’ leading political scientists, John Mearsheimer. He tells […]