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.
Geopolitics
Emmanuel Todd: Nato will disintegrate if Ukraine loses
‘The psychological shock that awaits Europeans will be to understand that Nato does not exist to protect us but to control us,’ Read HERE
Climate Crisis
Bill Mitchell: Natural climate solutions – code for financialisation of nature and profits for capital
McKinsey and The World Economic Forum – What can go wrong (for the 1%)? Read here
Corruption
Branko Marcetic: The State of Ukrainian Democracy Is Not Strong
A detailed account of the sharp decline in democratic freedoms in Ukraine, in ‘Jacobin’. Read the article HERE.
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