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Climate Crisis

Sophie Yeo – MEPs Decide not to Punish Exxon for No-show at Climate Hearing

April 21, 2019 David Shirreff 0

The European Parliament stopped short of stripping ExxonMobil of lobbying rights after its failure to attend a hearing on climate denial Sophie Yeo writes for DesmogUK Cross-posted from DesmogUK ExxonMobil will retain its ability to […]

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Austerity

Stan Jourdan – European Central Bank reveals it made huge profits from the euro crisis

April 20, 2019 David Shirreff 0

Defending the euro actually showered profits on the European Central Bank – to the tune of 73 billion euros. But have the proceeds been fairly allocated? Stan Jourdan is head of Positive Money Europe Cross-posted […]

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Climate Crisis

Richard Murphy: Taxes to Save the Environment – a Progressive Air Travel Tax

April 20, 2019 David Shirreff 0

Richard Murphy of Tax Research UK proposes hitting those wanton frequent fliers – such as workaholic businesspersons and owners of second homes abroad – with a progressive Tax to Save the Environment (TASTE). Unpopular but […]

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Julian Wettengel – German energy reform needs “enormous efforts” in transport and buildings

April 19, 2019 David Shirreff 0

A leaked progress report warns that Germany will miss its 2020 amd 2030 targets for reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions by wide margins Julian Wettengel is a staff correspondent for Clean Energy Wire Cross-posted […]

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Dina Srinivasan – Can Antitrust Law Rein in Facebook’s Data-Mining Profit Machine?

April 18, 2019 David Shirreff 0

Facebook engaged in an elaborate bait and switch on user data: privacy disappeared along with its competitors. Laws governing competition could change that. Dina Srinavasan is a former technology entrepreneur  Cross-posted from The Institute for […]

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Andrew Murphy – Governments Can Stop Other Airlines Joining Ryanair as Top-10 Emitter

April 17, 2019 David Shirreff 0

Aviation is the most carbon-intensive mode of transport, and Europe’s fastest-growing source of emissions. Time to stop the rot. Andrew Murphy writes on aviation for Transport & Environment Cross-posted from Transport & Environment Ryanair grabbed […]

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Economics

Laura Basu – The ‘Washington Consensus’ is dead. But what should replace it?

April 16, 2019 David Shirreff 0

We need a new vision for global economic governance that is guided by the principle of subsidiarity. Laura Basu is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture. Cross-posted from […]

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Energy

Urgewald – World Bank Pumps Billions Into Fossil Fuel Projects

April 16, 2019 David Shirreff 0

A study commissioned by the German NGO Urgewald exposes the climate-damaging activities of the world’s most powerful development institution. Urgewald is a non-profit environmental and human rights organisation based in Germany Cross-posted from Urgewald Urgewald’s […]

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Economics

Richard Murphy – The Green New Deal and Local Government

April 15, 2019 David Shirreff 0

Don’t wait for the big investments to get the Green New Deal going, writes Richard Murphy, there is plenty that can be done at the local and micro level. It’s all part of changing the […]

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Austerity

Heiner Flassbeck – Common Sense and Macroeconomic Logic

April 15, 2019 David Shirreff 0

Most economists and journalists don’t understand that when companies save rather than borrow and make investments, the state must run a deficit – a lesson that surplus-crazy Austrians and Germans have not learned, yet. Heiner […]

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Germany’s Jewish Problem: Genocides Past and Present by Wieland Hoban

March 4, 2026 0

Reviewed by Raymond Deane On 30 January, Uwe Becker – the so-called commissioner for Jewish life and the fight against anti-Semitism in the German state of Hesse – demanded that the organization Jewish Voice for […]

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Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by Avi Shlaim

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Book Review by Hossam el-Hamalawy Avi Shlaim’s Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine is a book written in the midst of catastrophe, not after its dust has settled.  It is a work shaped […]

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