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Vicky Cann – Which comes first, chemical-industry profits or health?

September 26, 2023 David Shirreff 0

Stricter European Union regulation of toxic chemicals is being jeopardised by corporate lobbying Vicky Cann is a researcher and campaigner with Corporate Europe Observatory Cross-posted from Corporate Europe Observatory Photo: Anna Massini/Creative Commons ‘Stop deindustrialisation!’ is […]

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Economics

Steve Keen – The “Anything Goes” Market Demand Curve

September 26, 2023 David Shirreff 0

Drawing macroeconomic conclusions from individual microeconomic data is a bear trap, says Steve Keen in the fourth chapter of a book in preparation. Steve Keen is Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute for Strategy, Resilience & Security, […]

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José Álvarez Díaz – Can humanity avoid the “nightmare scenario” of mounting space junk?

September 26, 2023 David Shirreff 0

The number of objects launched into space now totals 16,466, at least 11,742 of which remain in Earth orbit. How do we avoid “Kessler Syndrome”? José Álvarez Díaz specialises in international news and development and has […]

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Dirk Schoenmaker and Rens van Tilburg – Limiting climate change requires rechannelling of Special Drawing Rights to Multilateral Development Banks

August 29, 2023 David Shirreff 0

For cash-strapped developing countries the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights, channeled through the world’s Multilateral Development Banks, would be the quickest source of climate-change funding Dirk Schoenmaker is Professor of Banking and Finance, Rotterdam School of […]

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Anastasiia Vorobiova – The New Russian School

August 29, 2023 David Shirreff 0

How forced labor and propaganda are returning to Russian school curricula, raising serious concerns about children’s rights and freedoms. Anastasiia Vorobiova is a research assistant at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy […]

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Alpesh Budhia, Anna Cartwright, Darren Hurley-Smith and Edward Cartwright – The next generation of international ransomware gangs will target weaknesses in cryptocurrencies

August 29, 2023 David Shirreff 0

Cryptocurrencies are increasingly using a so-called “proof-of-stake” consensus mechanism, in which investors stake significant sums of currency, to validate crypto transactions. These stakes are vulnerable to extortion by ransomware criminals, says a study funded by […]

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Other News: From Nixon to Trump – the decline of the Common Good in American politics

August 29, 2023 David Shirreff 0

America’s failure to hold Richard Nixon accountable for his attacks on democracy undermined the common good and paved the way for Donald Trump. Read HERE Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson 1968 Photo: Lyndon Baines Johnson […]

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BBC News: How robotaxis are dividing San Francisco

August 29, 2023 David Shirreff 0

A faction in San Francisco doesn’t like robotaxis and believes the city is thereby putting lives at risk. Read HERE

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Tax Justice Network – World to lose $4.7 trillion to tax havens over next decade unless UN tax convention adopted

August 1, 2023 David Shirreff 0

The future losses of public money via tax havens would be equivalent to losing a year of worldwide spending on public health Cross-posted from Tax Justice Network Michael Vadon/Creative Commons Countries are on course to […]

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Stay Grounded – Clever campaigning against Bristol Airport expansion

August 1, 2023 David Shirreff 0

Campaigners in Bristol, UK, are fighting the expansion of Bristol Airport against an unlikely active investor, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP). The teachers should be told! Cross-posted from Stay Grounded Campaigners in Bristol, UK, […]

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Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia – A Critical History by Marko Grdešić and Mislav Žitko

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Book Review by Branko Milanovic´ When on 28 June of 1948 Joseph Stalin wrote a latter on behalf of the Cominform to ask Yugoslavia’s communists to get rid of the “Titoist clique” and to return […]

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Complicit – Britain’s role in Israel’s genocide by Peter Oborne

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Book Review by Martin Shaw Cross.posted from Declassified UK As British people have turned against Israel’s destruction of Gaza, leading figures in its present and former governing parties still deny that Israel has committed even […]

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