Taklkng Politics speaks to Oliver Bullough about his acclaimed new book Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take it Back. Where is Moneyland? How did London become its capital? And will Brexit, or a Corbyn government, or another financial crash change how it operates? A conversation about tax havens, money-laundering, the politics of corruption and the corruption of politics. With Jason Sharman, author of The Despot’s Guide to Wealth Management, and Helen Thompson.
Media
Juan Passarelli – The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange
Journalists are under attack globally for doing their jobs. Julian Assange is facing a 175 year sentence for publishing if extradited to the United States. The Trump administration has gone from denigrating journalists as ‘enemies […]
Economics
Renegade Inc. – Lawrence Wilkerson: Where from here…..blueprint or scramble
Royal Dutch Shell has two scenarios posited over the next 50 years. One is called Blueprint – based on global collaboration to tackle the big issues – and the other is called Scramble. Scramble is […]
Climate Crisis
Giorgos Kallis – Limits
How did we come to think of limits as something to overcome? Political ecologist, ecological economist, and degrowth advocate Giorgos Kallis traces environmentalism’s scarcity mentality back to Malthus and explains why we need understand limits […]
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