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Energy

Geoff Dembicki – Carbon Capture ‘Not Going to Happen,’ Top Fossil Fuel Advocate Predicts

June 10, 2025 David Shirreff 0

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 […]

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Economics

Mebratu Kelecha – Between Washington and Beijing, Africa is a country

June 10, 2025 David Shirreff 0

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 […]

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Inequality

José Álvarez Díaz: Artificial intelligence, dehumanisation and precarious work – translators on the frontline of tech-induced job degradation

June 10, 2025 David Shirreff 0

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, […]

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Geopolitics

Turkish Minute: Erdoğan speaks of peace. His government prepares for war.

June 10, 2025 David Shirreff 0

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 […]

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Geopolitics

David Douglas – Musk’s Deadliest Legacy

June 8, 2025 David Shirreff 1

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 […]

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Geopolitics

Melvin Goodman – Marco Rubio: The Secretary of Statelessness

June 3, 2025 David Shirreff 0

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 […]

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Tax

Feodora Teti – Missing tariffs: How flawed data turn trade policy analysis into a Herculean task

June 3, 2025 David Shirreff 0

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 […]

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Economics

Dean Baker – Foreign Students Aren’t Just a Large Source of Export Revenue, They Were a Rapidly Growing One

June 3, 2025 David Shirreff 0

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 […]

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Geopolitics

Common Dreams: Gaza Freedom Flotilla Begins Voyage to Break Israel’s Illegal Blockade

June 3, 2025 David Shirreff 0

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

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Geopolitics

Kyiv Independent: Who is Nawrocki, Poland’s new president, and what could his narrow victory mean for Polish-Ukrainian relations?

June 3, 2025 David Shirreff 0

Ukraine was one of the dominant topics throughout the campaign. Karol Nawrocki drew criticism for stoking anxiety over Ukrainian refugees Read HERE Karol Nowrocki

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

July 2, 2025 0

Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer

June 15, 2025 2

Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]

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