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Climate Crisis

Clare Taylor, Joanne Potter – Peatlands matter for climate and biodiversity

April 23, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Peatlands, which store one-third of the world’s soil carbon, are both a depleted and overlooked resource. Clare Taylor is a moderator and journalist specialised in sustainable energy and environment Joanne Potter is a writer and […]

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Finance

‘The alligators’: How Croatia legitimised the role of sub-contractors in the platform economy – Interview w/ Sunčica Brnardić

April 21, 2023 Ben Wray 0

What role do sub-contractors play in the platform economy? Can they really be considered employers? The Gig Economy Project spoke to trade unionist and labour law expert Sunčica Brnardić to explore the Croatian case, where […]

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EU politics

Joe Lauria: Leaks spelling the end for Ukraine

April 19, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The leaks from the Pentagon have revealed an awkward truth: the United States knows that Ukraine is not winning the war Joe Lauria is editor-in-chief of Consortium News and a former U.N. correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, […]

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Marlon Ettinger: After Raising the Pension Age, Emmanuel Macron Is Planning “Unprecedented Austerity”

April 19, 2023 Ben Wray 0

‘Emmanuel Macron has pushed through a rise in the pension age despite vast protests. In a televised address on Monday night, he said he’d “heard the anger” in the streets — yet his government’s new […]

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EU politics

Laura Lambert, Martin Lemberg-Pedersen: Europe outsourcing asylum to African countries is a terrible idea – there are alternatives

April 19, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Denmark and the UK have led the way in seeking to export the problem of refugees and economic migrants to the global south Laura Lambert is a Senior Researcher at the University of Freiburg. Martin […]

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Paula Andrés – Water politics: How Spain’s drought became a battle ground for rural votes

April 19, 2023 Ben Wray 0

How the politics of climate change and drought is playing out in the south of Spain. In Euractiv. Read the article HERE.

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Neo-Liberalism in the EU

José Ernesto Novaez: Marxism and Colonialism – An Interview with Vijay Prashad

April 19, 2023 Ben Wray 0

An interesting interview with one of India’s most important marxist intellectuals about neoocolonialism and the crisis of western hegemony José Ernesto Novaez is a journalist and poet. He is the coordinator of the Cuban chapter […]

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Anna-Elisabeth Hampel, Eva Luise Krause: What our research reveals about platform work, and how it should be regulated

April 17, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The ‘Equal opportunities in platform work’ (‘Chancengerechte Plattformarbeit’) project released two studies in February and March on the relationship between platform work and social exclusion/participation. The authors write for the Gig Economy Project summarising their […]

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EU politics

Thomas Fazi: Does Europe need to split?

April 17, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Thomas Fazi writes in ‘Unherd’ on the growing East-West divide in the European Union. Read the article HERE.

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John P. Ruehl: How the war in Ukraine is shaking up the global arms industry

April 17, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Arms exports are surging, with German and French weapons producers among those to be profiting from war John P. Ruehl is an Australian-American journalist living in Washington, D.C. He is a contributing editor to Strategic […]

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Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by Avi Shlaim

January 15, 2026 0

Book Review by Hossam el-Hamalawy Avi Shlaim’s Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine is a book written in the midst of catastrophe, not after its dust has settled.  It is a work shaped […]

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After Nations – The Making and Unmaking of a World Order by Rana Dasgupta

December 28, 2025 0

Reviewed by Branko Milanovic´ This new splendid and beautifully-written book by Rana Dasgupta has as its title After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order. The idea, briefly sketched in the introduction and […]

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