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.
EU politics
DatLab Blog: Tenders in EU: how much goes to tax havens?
Tax haven based companies won 5 % of the value of public tenders throughout EU countries in 2006-2017. That yields a rough estimate of 100 bilion EUR being awarded annually to such companies. Read here
EU politics
Paul Mason: British Labour’s radical left must fight the rise of a new machine politics
If you wish to know about what is going on in the Left of the British Labour Party, this piece provides a good insight. Read here
Finance
Umberto Bacchi: The delivery apps making gig work a ‘digital wild west’
Third-party apps that let delivery riders pay to ‘jump the queue’ for orders anger gig workers in Italy Read Here CC BY-SA 3.0
Be the first to comment