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
CBC News: Finland’s centre-left and Euro-skeptic populists top parliamentary election
Climate change dominates campaign Here is an analysis written by Heikki Patomäki before the election. Read here
Corruption
EU-OCS: Romanian Senate President accused of accepting bribes for software licences
That EU member state Romania is endemically corrupt is undisputed. But do not think that this is the only nation or institution where Microsoft – or its front organisation – is bribing European politicians. Romania […]
EU politics
Grace Blakeley: The dark side of the UK’s jobs boom
A financialised economy and weak trade unions mean record employment has done little to increase workers’ pay. Read here
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