Geopolitics
Politico: Washington and Berlin are slow-walking Ukraine’s bid for a NATO invitation
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy wants an immediate invitation to join the alliance, but key capitals are balking. Read HERE
Month: October 2024
EU politics
Politico – US envoy to NATO questions EU’s ‘buy local’ strategy on weapons
Some EU countries haven’t got the message yet that the US military industrial complex expects bigger European Defence spending to mean bigger orders for American weapons. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Peter Oborne, Lubna Masarwa – As Gaza burns, Israeli settlers make ‘real estate’ plans
Far-right plans for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza to be replaced by Israeli settlers are a real possibility. Peter Oborne won best commentary/blogging in both 2022 and 2017, and was also named freelancer of the […]
Financial Institutions
Lara Merling – “Greenwashing” Structural Adjustment
The last thing the global south needs is more of the IMF, but with sovereign debt crises on the rise, the masters of ‘structural adjustment’ are difficult to escape. In Phenomenal World. Read the article […]
Geopolitics
Hicham Safieddine – US plans for a post-Hezbollah Lebanon are trying to revive a failed strategy
The United States is manouvering for a Lebanon governed without Hezbollah, but those plans are coming up against the fact that the resistance group still has popular support. Hicham Safieddine is Canada Research Chair in […]
Economics
Eric Tymoigne – How the Taxpayer Myth Gives Life to the Neoliberal Agenda
The idea that the government is using “taxpayers’ money” when it spends limits spending options and marginalises sections of the population. Eric Tymoigne is an associate professor of economics at Lewis & Clark College and a […]
Deregulation
Kirsten Sehnbruch – Will Labour secure workers’ rights for the 21st century?
Labour’s Employment Rights Bill won’t resolve the inequalities that characterise Britain’s labour market. Kirsten Sehnbruch is a Distinguished Policy Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science. During […]
Economics
DeStatis – German Recession: Exports to non-EU countries in September 2024: expected decrease of 4.7% on August 2024
Exports to third countries (calendar and seasonally adjusted exports of goods), September 2024 57.2 billion euros -4.7% on the previous month -1.3% on the same month a year earlier Exports to third countries (original values, […]
EU politics
Climate Crisis
Cornel West, Chris Hedges – Dismantling the American Empire
23 October 2024