Finance
Kate Mackenzie, Tim Sahay – Marshall Plans
Both the US and China are trying to integrate the global south into their economic plans, but neither offer a truly compelling vision. In ‘Phenomenal World’. Read the article HERE.
Articles by Ben Wray
Climate Crisis
Jasper Steinlein and Jonathan Packroff – German industry crashes Habeck’s subsidy party
Robert Habeck, co-leader of the German Greens and Economy minister, is losing the support of German big business as the country de-industrialises at a rate of knots. In ‘Euractiv’. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Chris Hedges – Extermination works. At first.
In the short-term, Israel may achieve it’s goals through extreme violence, but it only lays the seeds for a deeper and broader resistance to Zionism. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign […]
Corruption
Paul Holden – Firm behind £4m Labour Party donation invested in weapons for Israel
Labour’s largest-ever donation came from Quadrature Capital, which holds shares in arms companies that make Israeli fighter jets and bombs. Paul Holden is an investigative journalist and is currently the Director of investigations at Shadow World […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – Why nations succeed or fail: a Nobel cause
The latest Nobel prize winners in economics received the award for arguing that countries which achieve prosperity are those that adopt Western liberal democracy, but how do they then explain China? Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson […]
EU politics
The Cradle – Spanish PM calls to suspend EU-Israel free trade agreement
“The European Commission must respond once and for all to the formal request made by two European countries to suspend the association agreement with Israel if it is found, as everything suggests, that human rights […]
Geopolitics
Arab News – UK tribunal rules academic’s anti-Zionism beliefs are protected under law
A victory for free speech in the UK. Read the article HERE.
Climate Crisis
Dave Smith, Tracy Edwards, Shaun Dey – The Italian Workers Occupying Against Climate Crisis
‘Faced with the threat of mass redundancies, GKN automotive workers in Florence occupied their factory to save jobs and build green technology.’ In Tribune. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Middle East Eye – Israeli attack on Al-Aqsa Hospital burns Palestinians alive
Some of the worst horror of the entire genocide is happening now. Reporting by Mohammed al-Hajjar in Deir al-Balah, occupied Palestine, and Rayhan Uddin in London. Cross-posted from Middle East Eye The Israeli military has attacked tents […]
EU politics
Binoy Kampmark – Welcome to Tariff Land: The Retreat of ‘Free Trade’
The return of protectionist policies in the United States and Europe shows that free trade ‘values’ were only strong while the West was winning. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures […]