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Michael Roberts – Why did the US avoid a recession in 2023?

January 31, 2024 Ben 0

The factors which pulled the US economy through in 2023 may be tailing-off in 2024: a recession could be looming just as Americans go to the ballot box. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City […]

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Adam Tooze – In China, clean energy is now THE driver of overall economic growth.

January 31, 2024 Ben 0

It’s gone entirely under-the-radar in Europe that not only is China churning out enough solar panels for the world at rock-bottom prices, but the European Union is increasingly manouvering to block those solar panels reaching […]

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Patrick Lawrence – The Palestinians Won in The Hague: So Did the Rest of Us

January 29, 2024 Ben 0

Western politicians and media can deny it as much as they want, but the ICJ ruling was a significant moment. Patrick Lawrence, a correspondent abroad for many years, chiefly for the International Herald Tribune, is a […]

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Reuters: Brussels threatens to hit Hungary’s economy if Orban vetoes Ukraine aid – FT

January 29, 2024 Ben 0

‘The European Union will sabotage Hungary’s economy if Budapest blocks fresh aid to Ukraine at a summit this week, under a confidential plan drawn up by Brussels, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.’ Read the […]

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Adam Tooze: Crisis Tribes – on Europe Now

January 29, 2024 Ben 0

Very useful opinion polling of what the populations of different European countries think about the key crisis points of our times. In Adam Tooze’s ‘Chartbook’ Substack. Read the article HERE.

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Vijay Prashad – The Entry of a New German Left Party Shakes up the Country

January 29, 2024 Ben 0

Some more insights into the thinking behind the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance for Reason and Justice (BSW), which is polling at 14 per cent. Vijay Prashad’s most recent book (with Noam Chomsky) is The Withdrawal: Iraq, […]

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Thang Nguyen Quoc – The Deglobalisation Myth

January 29, 2024 Ben 0

New supply chains study finds China-US and China-Japan decoupling, but global supply chains as a whole are continuing to expand. Thang Nguyen-Quoc, Ph.D. leads Oxford Economics Asia’s Macro consulting team in Singapore.  Cross-posted from Pearls […]

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Euronews – ‘Punishment beatings’ used at EU-backed Greek refugee camps and detention centres, alleges NGO

January 24, 2024 Ben 0

“Staff have abused refugees for talking in line, coughing, and not cleaning their rooms, the Border Violence Monitoring Network claims.” Read the full article HERE.

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Joe Guinan – Port Talbot’s Betrayal Shows Britain’s Lack of Direction

January 24, 2024 Ben 0

‘There is no future for a country with no real approach to developing a green steel industry — Port Talbot’s treatment demonstrates the Tories’ lack of seriousness to this reality.’ In Tribune. Read the article […]

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Geopolitics

Chris Hedges – The Four Horsemen of Gaza’s Apocalypse

January 24, 2024 Ben 0

A profile of the four men most responsible for the Gaza genocide outside of Israel: Biden and his top foreign policy team. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen […]

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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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