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Economics

John P. Ruehl – Sanctions Batter Russia as the Kremlin Attempts to Overcome Them

December 6, 2022 David Shirreff 0

Western economic punishments on Russia risk hastening the development of sanctions evasion techniques and rival economic mechanisms outside the control of Brussels and Washington John P. Ruehl is an Australian-American journalist living in Washington, D.C. […]

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Finance

Sam Pizzigati – Tax the Rich? We Did That Once

December 6, 2022 David Shirreff 0

In the early 1960s, America’s richest faced a 91 percent tax rate on income in the top tax bracket. The current top-bracket rate: 37 percent. Sam Pizzigati writes on inequality for the Institute for Policy […]

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Environment

Marta Vidal and Kira Walker – In the Iberian peninsula, “unsustainable, unviable” berry businesses are draining water and exploiting migrant labour

December 6, 2022 David Shirreff 0

Across southern Spain and Portugal, row upon row of plastic greenhouses stretch to the horizon where rain-fed olives, grapes and wheat traditionally grew. Marta Vidal and Kira Walker are freelance journalists Cross-posted from Equal Times Photo: Kira […]

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Antara Haldar: Killing Twitter

December 6, 2022 David Shirreff 0

Elon Musk fails to see that it’s the people, not the pavement, that make the town square Read Here Dan Taylor/Heisenberg Media

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Economics

Ahmet Yilmaz: Turkey’s Black Sea actions strategically benefit Russia

December 6, 2022 David Shirreff 0

Three important Turkish moves in the Black Sea have strategic consequences in Russia’s favour: Turkey’s interpretation of the Montreux Convention; its policy on drifting sea mines; and its design of the Black Sea Grain Initiative. […]

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Inequality

Daniel Rietiker – Migrant Workers and the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar

November 29, 2022 David Shirreff 0

How Could the European Court of Human Right Come into Action in Securing Access to Justice? Dr. Daniel Rietiker is senior lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights, an adjunct professor for International Law […]

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Globalisation

Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem, Hakan G. Sicakkan – Why do recognition rates for asylum seekers differ so dramatically across the EU?

November 29, 2022 David Shirreff 0

Asylum seekers are handled with wide differences, country by country, depending largely on the competence of the government concerned. Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Hakan G. Sicakkan is a Professor, both […]

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Media Influence

Simon Chadwick – World Cup 2022: how sponsorship has become less about selling drinks and more about geopolitics

November 29, 2022 David Shirreff 0

The Fifa men’s World Cup 2022 in Qatar is arguably the most political in history. Simon Chadwick is Professor of Sport and Geopolitical Economy, SKEMA Business School Cross-posted from The Conversation Spotlight on Qatar. Shutterstock/Nomi2626 Even during […]

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Economics

Shaun Richards: China looks to expand bank lending to support property prices and domestic demand

November 29, 2022 David Shirreff 0

In China, two themes collide: one is the dependence of the Chinese economy on its property sector and the struggles of the latter. The other is the Zero Covid policy which is simply an excuse […]

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Oliver Gordon: Can Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage be saved from the net-zero scrapheap?

November 29, 2022 David Shirreff 0

Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) is again facing questions of sustainability. Should we bin the technology or does it still have a role in energy transition? Read Here Drax’s power station in North […]

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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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