Finance
Paolo Gerbaudo – The Electric Vehicle Developmental State
BYD exemplifies transformations in Chinese industrial policy. In ‘Phenomenal World’. Read the article HERE.
Articles by Ben Wray
Economics
Mariana Mazzucato, Tim O’Reilly, Ilan Strauss, Rufus Rock – To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money
The key to understanding technological development is to look at the economic incentives the technologists have. All fourth authors are researchers and professors at the University College of London. Cross-posted from The Conversation Time and […]
EU politics
Pierre Micheletti – Why the EU’s new migration laws could lead to more deaths at sea
The EU’s new Asylum and Migration Pact is worse than useless. Pierre Micheletti is responsible for the “Health – Solidarity – Precariousness” degree at the Faculty of Medicine of Grenoble, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA). Cross-posted […]
Geopolitics
Tarik Cyril Amar – Scholz in China
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’ trip to Beijing shows Germany needs China more than China needs Germany. Tarik Cyril Amar is a historian from Germany, currently at Koç University, Istanbul, expert on Ukraine, Russia, and Europe, […]
Geopolitics
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Sybil Fares – If the US and UK Have Any Shame, They Will Welcome Palestine as a UN Member State
A vote is due to take place this week on Palestine becoming a full UN member, but the US and UK look set to reject the will of the vast majority of the world’s countries. […]
EU politics
Politico – Don’t assume von der Leyen is coming back
The European Commission President’s path to a second term may not be as straight-forward as it first seemed. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Tarik Cyril Amar – Mobilising for Defeat
Ukraine’s new mobilisation law seeks more men for the meat-grinder. Tarik Cyril Amar is a historian from Germany, currently at Koç University, Istanbul, expert on Ukraine, Russia, and Europe, and the author of “The Paradox […]
Media
Ken Loach and Paul Laverty’s Final Show: Interview with Paul Laverty
Who will produce cinema about the working class when Ken Loach is gone? In ‘Jacobin’. Read the article HERE.
Media
Chris Hedges – Requiem for the New York Times
The story of the New York Times’ decline from someone who saw some of it from the inside. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York […]
Climate Crisis
Robert Hunziker – The Death of Paris ‘15
Oil producers should be getting shutdown by now if the Paris climate agreement meant anything. Instead, they plan to quadruple output by 2030. Cross-posted from Counterpunch The Paris climate agreement of 2015 set the standards […]