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Heiner Flassbeck – La Grande Illusion: how France Lies to Itself

July 17, 2020 David Shirreff 0

Among the European nations, France in particular tends to overestimate Germany’s capabilities and measure itself against Germany. The result is a grandiose European misjudgment. Heiner Flassbeck is an economist, as well as publisher and editor […]

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Corruption

George Monbiot: Secret coronavirus contracts awarded in UK without competition

July 15, 2020 David Shirreff 0

Deals worth billions have been granted by a UK government willing to brazen out disgrace until outrage subsides. Read here

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Economics

Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker – The Reward for Wage-Cuts is Disaster

June 16, 2020 David Shirreff 0

There is no return to pre-crisis normality. The new lessons must be learned quickly, otherwise an economic catastrophe is imminent. The course must now be set correctly, especially with regard to debts and wages. Heiner […]

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Economics

Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker – Germany: Not a Bang but a Whimper

June 10, 2020 David Shirreff 0

Germany’s new coronavirus stimulus package is wide of the mark, taking little account of the impact on investment, unemployment and loss of export income. Heiner Flassbeck is an economist, as well as publisher and editor […]

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Climate Crisis

Ann Pettifor – Building from Ground Zero: Doing Business in Disaster Zones

June 8, 2020 David Shirreff 0

A review of “Extreme Economies” by Richard Davies, which explores economic realities in some of the world’s worst-hit regions Ann Pettifor is a Director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME) and a Council Member of […]

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Heiner Flassbeck and Friederike Spiecker – Democracy and International Relations

May 26, 2020 David Shirreff 0

An international fire brigade – one way of looking at the European Central Bank – should brook no interference at the national level when it turns on its fire hose. Its ultimate arbiter is the […]

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Climate Crisis

Dani Rodrik: Globalisation after Covid-19 – my plans for a rewired planet

May 20, 2020 David Shirreff 0

The virus confirms that the world needs rules for living together—but not the arbitrary rules we’ve got. For the good of the economy as much as anything else, the focus must shift from investment and […]

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Heiner Flassbeck – Where Europe is Breaking Up

May 13, 2020 David Shirreff 0

Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court can’t be blamed too heavily for flouting higher European law. The mindset of the country’s entire political elite needs further education on the function of sovereign indebtedness. Heiner Flassbeck is an […]

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Aviation

George Monbiot – Corona Crisis: No Government should offer Airlines and Oil Giants a Lifeline

May 6, 2020 David Shirreff 0

This crisis is a chance to rebuild our economy for the good of humanity. Let’s bail out the living world, not its destroyers. Read here  

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National Politics

Ben Wray: Care Homes a Privatisation Story

April 22, 2020 David Shirreff 0

The surprising number of coronavirus deaths in Scottish care homes conceals a greater scandal about the hollowing out of the the UK National Health Service. The 1996 privatisation of care homes was described by Allyson […]

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

October 29, 2025 0

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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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

August 10, 2025 0

Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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