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Mareike Beck – The Credit Suisse crisis and the contradictions of global finance: Three fallacies and a proposal

March 27, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Incisive read explaining why Central Bank ‘solutions’ to the banking crisis aren’t actually fixing anything. Mareike Beck is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King’s College London. Cross-posted from the LSE EUROPP blog Banking is […]

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Harrison Stetler: Emmanuel Macron’s Constitutional Coup Has Thrown France Into Crisis

March 22, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Most French people oppose raising the pension age, and there was no parliamentary majority for the change. While the reform has now been railroaded through the National Assembly, mobilised opponents see a chance to finish […]

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Steve Keen: The Fractured Fairy Tales That Led To Today’s Banking Crisis

March 22, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The only explanations for why Central Banks have not bought government bonds directly, and instead through the secondary market, are not based on logic or experience. Steve Keen is a Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute for […]

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Michael Roberts: Bank busts and regulation

March 22, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Stocks have rebounded, but this banking crisis is only just getting started – and the prominent solutions on offer to solve it are all inadequate Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and […]

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National Politics

Prabir Purkayastha: The US and UK’s submarine deal crosses nuclear red lines with Australia

March 22, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Aukas has been described by a former Australian Prime Minister as “the worst deal in all history”. The only logic to Australia signed up to securing American hegemony in the region. Prabir Purkayastha is the […]

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EU politics

Michel Wieviorka: After Macron’s move to force through pension reform, all eyes are now on France’s trade unions

March 20, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The pension strikes are helping to revive trade unionism in France as a significant political force Michel Wieviorka is a sociologist and member of the Centre for Sociological Analysis and Intervention (CADIS, EHSS-CNRS). Cross-posted from […]

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EU politics

Jean-Luc Mélenchon: France’s pension battle isn’t over

March 20, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The France Insoumise leader writes in ‘Jacobin’ on where next after Macron forced through the pension reform. Read the article HERE.

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National Politics

Lily Hamourtziadou: Iraq 20 years on: death came from the skies on March 19 2003 – and the killing continues to this day

March 20, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The bombs began to rain down on Iraqis in the “shock and awe” campaign – and the killing never stopped Lily Hamourtziadou is a senior lecturer in Security Studies, Birmingham City University. Cross-posted from The […]

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Loren Balhorn: Order Prevails

March 20, 2023 Ben Wray 0

A look at the municipal politics of Berlin, where hopes have been dashed that a referendum win in 2021 would bring a breakthrough on the rent problem. Read the article HERE.

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Richard Murphy: Banking is in meltdown, again. Will central bankers finally accept that their job is to serve society and not bankers?

March 20, 2023 Ben Wray 0

This is a crisis of the Central Bankers making. To fix it, they must radically shift policy. Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting, Sheffield University Management School. Chartered accountant. Co-founder of the […]

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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

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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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