Corruption
Politico – German center-right chief in European Parliament investigated for fraud
Is there anyone in the European Parliament who isn’t involved in a corruption scandal? Read the article HERE.
Articles by Ben Wray
Corruption
Follow the Money – Brussels admits EU funds flowed to spyware firms after FTM probe
The EU has been directly financing commercial spyware companies in the EU linked to nefarious practices. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Politico – US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules
The US is a mafia state threatening anyone who doesn’t do its bidding. Read the article HERE.
Finance
Ivan Radanović – Review: The Great Global Transformation, by Branko Milanović
Milanović’s new book, which will be released on 6 November, charts the decline of neoliberalism and the rise of what he calls ‘national market liberalism’. Ivan Radanović is an economist at the National bank of […]
Finance
Michael Roberts – Debt and the cockroaches
The US stock market is bullish, but there are signs that the financial system has found new ways to re-produce risky lending crisis eerily familiar to the notorious sub-prime loans in 2008. Michael Roberts is […]
Geopolitics
George Beebe – Ukraine war: Misdiagnosing the cause
By seeing the Ukraine war only through the lens of Russian aggression, Western foreign policy has failed to understand the defensive motivations of the Kremlin. George Beebe is the Director of Grand Strategy for the […]
Uncategorized
Al Jazeera – UN’s Albanese presents blistering report on complicity in Gaza genocide
The work of holding complicit states accountable for the genocide has only just begun. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Daniel Finn – Ireland’s Presidential Election Was a Left-Wing Landslide
‘Ireland’s new president, Catherine Connolly, is an outspoken left-winger who champions the rights of the Palestinians and opposes Europe’s militarisation drive. Her resounding victory came as a huge shock to the conservative political establishment.’ In […]
Geopolitics
David Hearst – As Israel devours the West Bank, Abbas clings on to a sinking PA
The status quo – a decrepit PA policing a West Bank that is being over-run by Israeli-state backed settler violence – can’t go on forever. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. […]
EU politics
Politico – Germany’s new €377B military wish list
Germany’s new economic strategy – for the government to spend hundreds of billions on predominantly German-manufactured arms – is coming to fruition. Read the article HERE.