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Julian-Nicolas Calfuqir – In France, the Far Right Is Beating a Divided Left

June 3, 2024 Ben 0

‘Two years ago, a left-wing alliance denied Emmanuel Macron his majority in parliament. But today the forces of the Left are deeply divided — making Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National almost the sole contender for […]

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Corruption

Peter Oborne – Keir Starmer is drawing up a terrifying blueprint for the UK

June 3, 2024 Ben 0

Starmer’s purge of the Labour left is so brutal and anti-democratic it would have made Stalin wince. Peter Oborne is a British journalist and author. His latest book is The Fate of Abraham: Why the […]

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Barah Mikaïl – The EU’s outsourced migration control is violent, expensive and ineffective

June 2, 2024 Ben 0

The EU externalising its borders is neither effective nor moral, and it won’t restrain support for the far-right either. Barah Mikaïl is Associate professor of International Security at IE University in Madrid. Cross-posted from The […]

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Gig Economy Project: Podcast – The rise and fall of grocery delivery in Europe

May 29, 2024 Ben 0

Billions of venture capital funding was ploughed into Europe’s grocery delivery sector just three years ago. Now, there’s almost nothing left to show for it. What went wrong? The Gig Economy Project is a BRAVE […]

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Climate Crisis

Irene Casado Sanchez, Jackie Botts – A program meant to help developing nations fight climate change is funneling billions of dollars back to rich countries

May 28, 2024 Ben 0

‘Climate finance’ from the global north to the global south is just high-interest loans, sometimes tied to obligations to source materials for green projects from rich countries. In ‘Reuters’. Read the article HERE.

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Satyajit Das – The economic costs of modern war

May 28, 2024 Ben 0

Western economies are now well set-up for sustaining wars over the long-term. Satyajit Das is a former banker and author of numerous works. His latest book, published in May, is on ecotourism and man’s relationship […]

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Orsetta Causa, Maxime Nguyen, Emilia Soldani – Lost in the green transition: Measurement and stylised facts

May 28, 2024 Ben 0

This data on green and high-polluting jobs explains a lot about the politics of the green transition. To put it simply, it’s materialism, stupid: most people need to see the green transition make a material […]

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Geopolitics

Ben Donaldson – Action on autonomous weapons at the Summit for the Future

May 28, 2024 Ben 0

No surprise that Russia, the UK and US are among three of the states pushing against serious commitments to restrict the use of autonomous weapons: all major arms manufacturers. In the ‘Spoiler Alert’ substack. Read […]

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Dorthe Engelcke – War on Gaza exposes Germany’s feminist foreign policy as a sham

May 28, 2024 Ben 0

As Palestinian women and children suffer under Israel’s onslaught, Berlin has failed to prioritise their plight Dorthe Engelcke is a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. She […]

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 Geneva International Peace Research Institute – Call to the International Criminal Court to investigate Ursula von der Leyen for complicity in war crimes and genocide committed by Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and in Gaza

May 27, 2024 Ben 0

This press release has got no press attention despite Von Der Leyen being in the middle of a re-election campaign, which is why we are highlighting it here. 27 May 2024, Geneva – On May […]

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

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Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate by Dani Rodrik

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Book Review by Walden Bello Dani Rodrik has impeccable credentials as an economist. He is an expert in many areas, including trade and development, and is one of Harvard University’s leading lights. In recent years, […]

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