Aviation
Stay Grounded: Eight ways airlines exploit their own customers
Airlines have a long record of screwing over the very people who use their services Read HERE Photo: Bahnfrend/Creative Commons
Articles by David Shirreff
Energy
Geoff Dembicki – Carbon Capture ‘Not Going to Happen,’ Top Fossil Fuel Advocate Predicts
Bjørn Lomborg, the Danish political scientist and climate crisis sceptic, has a dim view of carbon capture and storage: it’s too expensive to make a difference. Geoff Dembicki is Global Managing Editor of DeSmog and […]
Economics
Mebratu Kelecha – Between Washington and Beijing, Africa is a country
Amid Trump’s tariffs, Africa faces trade disruptions, corporate power, and emerging partnerships in its quest to control its economic destiny. Mebratu Kelecha is an independent researcher Cross-posted from Other News Photo: NASA/Public Domain The global […]
Inequality
José Álvarez Díaz: Artificial intelligence, dehumanisation and precarious work – translators on the frontline of tech-induced job degradation
Translators work in a changing and competitive field, where the use of new technologies – currently AI – is once again leading to the dehumanisation of their work and the deterioration of their working conditions, […]
Geopolitics
Turkish Minute: Erdoğan speaks of peace. His government prepares for war.
The divergence between Turkish President Erdoğan’s language and the lived reality of his rule is becoming too stark to ignore. While his speeches promise reconciliation and reform, his domestic and foreign policies reveal a trajectory […]
Geopolitics
David Douglas – Musk’s Deadliest Legacy
The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is the move most likely to hurt most people around the world. David Douglas has led non-profit organizations involved with clean drinking water and sanitation internationally […]
Geopolitics
Melvin Goodman – Marco Rubio: The Secretary of Statelessness
Question: What member of Trump’s cabinet has four major posts, but only one job? Answer: Marco Rubio Melvin A. Goodman is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and a professor of government at […]
Tax
Feodora Teti – Missing tariffs: How flawed data turn trade policy analysis into a Herculean task
Modelling any tariff-based intervention requires reliable data on what countries actually impose Feodora Teti is Assistant Professor (non-tenure) and Economist, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (LMU); IES Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University Cross-posted from VoxEU Source: Hennepin County Library, US […]
Economics
Dean Baker – Foreign Students Aren’t Just a Large Source of Export Revenue, They Were a Rapidly Growing One
Tuition and other expenses that foreign students pay to study at places like Harvard is a major source of foreign exchange earnings Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy […]
Geopolitics
Common Dreams: Gaza Freedom Flotilla Begins Voyage to Break Israel’s Illegal Blockade
The ship is a symbol of the unyielding spirit of Palestinian resilience and the growing global resistance to Israel’s use of collective punishment and deliberate starvation policies. Read HERE Photo: Jaber Jehad Badwan/Creative Commons