What a world we live in where we are snowed with propaganda from the elites about how the only way forward is that we accept “pain” or “sacrifice” to prevent some inflationary catastrophe from accelerating out of control and that if workers dare seek some cost-of-living redress as corporations go for broke in their margin push, then the pain the policy makers will inflict will be greater.
Austerity
Claire Connelly: Dear Tony Blair – the right views on Brexit are wrong
A brilliant article.Claire Connelly is one of the few that realises that Brexit had less to do with the EU than with a society seeking emancipation from the devastation of neo-liberalism and all its political […]
Corruption
Branko Marcetic: A Missile Strike in Poland Shows Why Government Agencies Can’t Be the Sole Arbiters of Truth
After a Ukrainian missile mishap in Poland, misinformation blaming Russia quickly spread. The lie came from precisely the “authoritative sources” now being treated as the arbiters of truth by social media platforms. Read the article […]
Economics
The Local it. – Italy: Unemployment up, economy just contracted for the first time since 2014
This is bad news for the coalition government. Let us see if they now compromise with the EU with their budget. Read here
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