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Ralph Nader – The World Must Calculate the Real Gaza Death Toll

March 6, 2024 Ben 0

A compelling case that the number of dead in Gaza is likely to be massively under-estimated. Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate and the author of “The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future” […]

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Economics

Philip Di Salvo, Antje Scharenberg – AI bias: the organised struggle against automated discrimination

March 6, 2024 Ben 0

Artificial Intelligence systems are already a major part of our lives in Europe, and are automating inequality. Philip Di Salvo is a Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of St.Gallen. Antje Scharenberg is a […]

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Stephen Maher, Scott Aquanno – The Problem With Finance Is the Problem of Capitalism

March 6, 2024 Ben 0

The authors’ of new book The Fall and Rise of American Capitalism: From J. P. Morgan to BlackRock argue that finance capital and industrial capital are not in conflict, as many have argued. They are in fact […]

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Vijay Prashad – The Remarkable Decline in the Global North’s Leadership

March 6, 2024 Ben 0

Western leaders ignore the will of their own voters when they aid and abet the Gaza genocide. Vijay Prashad’s most recent book (with Noam Chomsky) is The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and the Fragility of […]

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Gig Economy Project: Podcast – The Brussels Appeal: Building the platform workers’ movement

March 5, 2024 Ben 0

The Gig Economy Project speaks to three food delivery activists and organisers from Austria, Spain and Belgium about the working conditions of riders, resistance to the platforms and the barriers to political solutions. The Gig […]

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Geopolitics

Al Jazeera – Russia claims German military leak proves Western involvement in Ukraine

March 4, 2024 Ben 0

The leak of a conversation among German officers about the consequences of sending Taurus missiles to Ukraine raises more questions than answers about the motive of the leak. Read the article HERE.

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Grace Blakeley: Property Developer Patriotism

March 4, 2024 Ben 0

“The irony of Keir Starmer’s plan for a ‘patriotic economy’ is that it relies on corporate developers to enrich shareholders, many of which don’t pay their taxes in Britain.” In Tribune. Read the article HERE.

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Chris Hedges – Aaron Bushnell’s Divine Violence

March 4, 2024 Ben 0

Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation was an act of moral courage that will not be forgotten. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as […]

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Michael Roberts – Inequality: the middle way

March 4, 2024 Ben 0

Tackling inequality without tackling the structure of modern capitalism is fiddling while Rome burns. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Last week I attended a […]

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Marco Carnelos – The West’s last gasp of global dominance 

March 4, 2024 Ben 0

The West’s geopolitical policy – “for my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law” – may be necessary for elites to maintain internal cohesion, but the friend-or-foe narrative will be dangerous in a world where […]

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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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