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.
Climate Crisis
The Guardian: Scores arrested as thousands block London bridges in climate rebellion
Protesters close five main bridges across Thames over extinction crisis in huge act of peaceful civil disobedience Read here
Finance
German Foreign Policy: “In China for China”
German companies – from car giant Volkswagen to SMEs – are making their plants in China independent of bases in Europe. Immunising operations against new Western sanctions raises German investment in China to record levels. […]
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Tariq Ali: Khan Against the Generals
World-renowned author Tariq Ali writes about the political crisis in Pakistan. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
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