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Politico: Brussels banned TikTok. Europe has questions.

March 13, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The EU has banned members of staff from using the Chinese video-sharing app TikTok and advised MEPs to get rid of the app. But it has failed to offer any real explanation as to why […]

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Jonathan Cook: I once admired George Monbiot. But his grim trajectory shows us where politics is heading

March 13, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Everyone who dissents from the mainstream liberal press seems to get smeared as ‘far-right’ these days. Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a winner of the Martha Gellhorn […]

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Corruption

Branko Marcetic: Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse Shows Little Has Changed for Big Banks Since 2008

March 13, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The spectacular collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was caused by corruption, financial recklessness, and poor decision-making. With its bailout echoing 2008’s eager bailouts for the rich, it begs the question: How much longer will Americans […]

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Michael Roberts: Monetary tightening, inflation and bank failures

March 13, 2023 Ben Wray 0

A wider lens on the dynamics driving the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog LAST week, US Fed Chair Jay […]

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Víctor Riesgo Gómez – Strategies of resistance and trade union action in platform work: The case of Uber in Spain

March 13, 2023 Ben Wray 0

How does the private hire platform market operate in Spain? And what role are trade unions playing in seeking to represent drivers? Víctor Riesgo Gómez, a sociologist and predoctoral contract researcher at Universidad Nacional de […]

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Víctor Riesgo Gómez – Estrategias de resistencia y acción sindical en el trabajo de plataforma: El caso de Uber en España

March 9, 2023 Ben Wray 0

¿Cómo funciona el mercado de las plataformas de transporte privado en España? ¿Qué papel juegan los sindicatos en la representación de los conductores? Víctor Riesgo Gómez, sociólogo e investigador predoctoral contratado en la Universidad Nacional […]

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David H. Rundell, Michael Gfoeller: Ukraine’s famed unity is a myth

March 8, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Understanding the complexity of Ukraine as a nation with significant faultlines gives us a more realistic perspective of the country than the war propaganda we get in the mainstream press. David H. Rundell is a former […]

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Helen Lackner: There’s Still No End in Sight to Yemen’s Catastrophic War

March 8, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The brutal war that no one in the West wants to talk about, because it’s western allies dishing out the brutality. Read the article HERE.

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Serena Di Luccio – Windfall profits for banks, crisis for people: The money system is unfair and needs to be reformed

March 8, 2023 Ben Wray 0

As a consequence of the European Central Bank (ECB) raising its interest rates, banks in the euro area will earn €70 billion in unearned windfall profits. Cross-posted from Positive Money Europe There is a huge […]

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Berto Sagrera: Spain fails to comply with UN resolution on rights of Catalan political prisoners

March 8, 2023 Ben Wray 0

El Nacional.Cat reports that the Spanish Government has dismissed the UN’s opinion that the state had violated the political rights of Catalan pro-independence leaders when they were imprisoned after the 2017 referendum. Read the article […]

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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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