Bill Mitchell: The EU is neoliberal to its core and captured by corporate interests

Politics is dominated by a “lumpen intelligentsia”: “earnest types who enthuse about ideas, simplify them and believe fervently that their crude and wholesale application will solve complex social problems.” Read here  

The former European Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht (Flemish liberal) and his wife, the Police Court Judge Mireille Schreurs have been convicted of tax evasion That says a lot for the EU elite. Read here

UNICEF, the United Nations Children Fund says it is attempting to begin a catch-up campaign of immunization in the Gaza Strip for the thousands of children who have been cut off by the Israeli total […]