In a world of financialised globalisation, prices of food are not determined by the simplistic laws of supply and demand. Prices are determined by a wall of money wielded by relatively few, invisible speculators and aimed at largely unregulated global grain markets.
Economics
German Foreign Policy: China’s Second Counterstrike
EU agrees on law to secure strategic raw materials to reduce vulnerabilities in the West’s economic war against China. China responds to sanctions and restricts exports of important resources. Read HERE
Finance
Barry Lynn – Google, critics, and freedom of speech
From The Guardian The case of Barry Lynn: Scholar says Google criticism cost him job: ‘People are waking up to its power’ To the article
EU politics
Yanis Varoufakis: Germany Is Banning Pro-Palestinians
Yanis Varoufakis was scheduled to deliver a video message to a Palestine conference in Berlin on Friday — but police shut down the event. Varoufakis tells Jacobin how the Germans silenced him and why they’ve now banned […]
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