EU politics
Articles by Mathew D. Rose
Economics
Chris Dillow: THE POLITICS OF DEBT FETISHISM
Politics is dominated by a “lumpen intelligentsia”: “earnest types who enthuse about ideas, simplify them and believe fervently that their crude and wholesale application will solve complex social problems.” Read here
Energy
The Guardian: Bitcoin mining consumes more electricity a year than Ireland
Network’s estimated power use also exceeds that of 19 other European countries, consuming more than five times output of continent’s largest windfarm Read here
Deregulation
Aditya Chakrabortty: The fat cats have got their claws into our universities, and will eat them up
In neo-liberalism everything is a commodity, there to be exploited by the “New Meritocracy” of business people. In the UK they are now plundering what were once true bastions of meritocracy: universities. Read here
Economics
Richard Murphy – The Tories created two thirds of the UK’s national debt
An essential element of the neo-liberal discourse is that leftist political parties always increase the national debt; parties on the right do not. They are fiscally responsible. In his article Richard Murphy takes the trouble […]
Finance
New Economics Foundation – PRECARIOUS LABOUR STRIKES BACK
Uber drivers and college cleaners, cinema workers and McDonalds staff marched for better pay and basic rights. By Aidan Harper, Assistant Researcher at the New Economics Foundation Cross-posted from the New Economomics Foundation 2017 […]
Climate Crisis
Scisco Media: The Shaky Political Viability of Forcing Fracking upon Communities
The protests against fracking in the UK are increasing despite the ramping up of repression. The courts and police appear to be in full confrontation mode. All paid for by the taxpayer, the majortiy of […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: Massive Eurozone infrastructure deficit requires urgent redress
“The latest – EIB Investment Report 2017/2018 – published last week by the European Investment Bank tells anyone who cares to take those Europhile Rose Coloured Glasses off for just a second how deep the failure of […]
Austerity
Simon Wren-Lewis: Austerity and mortality
We have posted a number of articles and links concerning how austerity kills. In this article Simon Wren-Lewis analyses this phnomena in the UK and other European nations Read here
EU politics
Stephen Kinzer on NATO and Turkey
This is short, but to the point.