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Austerity

Stathis Kouvelakis, Costas Lapavistas: Greece’s Left Needs to Unite Behind an Alternative to Syriza

January 25, 2023 Ben Wray 0

It’s always good to see the Greek left thinking about how to cohere a radical alternative to Syriza. Posted in Jacobin. Read the article HERE.

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EU politics

Alp Kayserilioglu: Goodbye Erdoğan?

January 25, 2023 Ben Wray 0

A stimulating analysis of the economic and political turmoil Turkey is in, on New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.

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EU politics

Baher Kamal – US installs new nukes in Europe: As destructive as 83 Hiroshima bombs

January 25, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Mainstream media has hardly even noticed that the United States has just installed more powerful nuclear weapons in Europe. Baher Kamal is an Egyptian-born, Spanish national, secular journalist, publisher and editor of Human Wrongs Watch with nearly five […]

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EU politics

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies: What Steps Can the US Take to Foster Peace Talks in Ukraine?

January 25, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Some sensible proposals for what the United States could put on the table if it really wanted to support peace negotiations. But it doesn’t. Medea Benjamin is co-founder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK: Women for […]

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Robin McAlpine: Scotland had one intellectual – and then he died

January 25, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The decline of a serious intellectual culture in Scotland is a broader phenomenon. Robin McAlpine is founder of the Scottish think-and-do tank Common Weal Cross-posted from Robin McAlpine’s blog In some ways losing Tom Nairn […]

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Economics

Yanis Varoufakis: Is Europe deindustrialising?

January 23, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Varoufakis writes in ‘Project Syndicate’ on European capitalism, which is rich in terrestrial capital but has fallen behind the US and China in “cloud capital”. Read the article HERE.

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EU politics

Branko Milanović: Can Serbia survive EU’s economic ultimatum?

January 23, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The EU is seeking to bully Serbia in to accepting an ultimatum. History suggests Brussels will get its way sooner or later. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest  book […]

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Politico: Majority of Western companies doing business as usual in Russia, study finds

January 23, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Only about 8 percent of EU firms have divested from Russia, with the majority of Western firms still active in the country being German. Read the article HERE.

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Inequality

Sam Pizzigati: A down year for our deepest pockets?

January 23, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The billionaire class lost wealth in 2022 but it didn’t put a dent in their luxury spending. More money for billionaires doesn’t buy them more things, it buys them more political power. Sam Pizzigati writes on […]

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Corruption

Fighting corruption in Brussels after Qatargate: Interview with Nicholas Aiossa

January 23, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Nicholas Aiossa from Transparency International explains what’s behind the “culture of impunity” at the European Parliament and proposes reforms to address it. Cross-posted from Green European Journal Green European Journal: Greek socialist MEP and vice […]

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Corruption

When McKinsey comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Walt Bogdanovitch and Michael Forsythe

January 8, 2023 0

Book Review by Roger Steer In January 2021 Brave New Europe published “The Americanisation of European Healthcare” which was my attempt to describe the forces at work to change the way healthcare is delivered in […]

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Do You Want to Know the Truth? by Rupert Read

November 22, 2022 0

Book Review by Alison Teal Honesty is the key word for Rupert Read’s new book Do You Want to Know the Truth? Rarely is this book what one would consider ‘light’ reading. Collecting some of […]

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