Economics
DeStatis – German Recession: 2025 German foreign trade balance drops 20%
The foreign trade balance showed an export surplus of 200.4 billion euros in 2025. In 2024, the surplus was 242.9 billion euros. Read Article HERE
Month: February 2026
Fake News
Chris Hedges – The Increasing Attacks on Francesca Albanese Presage a New Dark Age
Most Western nations are trying to erase Palestine from the past, present, and future. In Berlin the Zionists are trying to block upcoming talks based on these lies. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist […]
Gig Economy
Ben Wray – Platform work is dangerous
A study for the European Trade Union Confederation examines what health & safety risks platform workers face in Europe and how to tackle them. Read the report HERE.
Solutions
Dylan Riley – First Principles
How the left reconnects to the working class is a fundamental question of our time that no one seems to have a compelling answer to. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Eldar Mamedov – Rubio’s spoonful of sugar helps hard medicine go down in Munich
European elites are easily impressed, they seem to be happy that Marco Rubio didn’t use mean words about them, even if the substance remains 100% Trumpian. Eldar Mamedov is a Brussels-based foreign policy expert and […]
Climate Crisis
Serena Di Luccio – Three reasons why renewable energy is still Europe’s best solution
A massive expansion of renewable energy capacity in Europe is the answer to the continent’s geopolitical, industrial and cost-of-living problems. Serena Di Luccio is Positive Money’s EU Advocacy and Campaigns Manager. Cross-posted from Positive Money […]
Food Production
Nathalie Louisgrand – How Paris’ working-class dining experience is reshaping restaurant economics in France
A 19th century Parisian affordable dining tradition is having a renaissance. Nathalie Louisgrand is an associate professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM). Her research focuses on French gastronomy and its transmission. Cross-posted from The […]
Economics
Eurostat – EU Recession: Industrial production down by 1.4% in the euro area and by 0.8% in the EU
If you read through the report there are some very alarming numbers Read Article HERE
National Politics
Middle East Eye – ‘Erasing history’: British Museum criticised for removing references to ‘Palestine’ from exhibits
Museum bows to pressure from pro-Israel group to remove the term ‘Palestine’, a move scholars and activists say is part of a ‘systematic’ attack on Palestinian cultural identity Read Article HERE Photo licensed under the […]
Geopolitics
Larry C. Johnson: Russia and China Are Expanding their Cooperation to Counter US Efforts to Bully Iran and Cuba
What Russia and China are doing in a closely coordinated series of actions that show a serious commitment to counter US actions to punish and isolate Iran and Cuba Read Article HERE Photo licensed under […]