Political Parties
Tom Hazeldine: Fresh Disasters
A look at the crisis in the Tory party over Boris Johnson’s disastrous leadership. Read here.
Corruption
Corruption
Mining(dot)com: Glencore unit pleads guilty to bribery in Africa
While people constantly complain about corruption in developing nations, they forget that this would not happen were it not for corporations of developing nations using bribes to achieve illicit profits and illegally destroy the environment. […]
Corruption
Aljazeera: US Supreme Court rejects Bayer’s bid to end Roundup lawsuits
The justices left in place a $25m judgement in favour of a man who says he developed cancer from using Roundup. Read Here
Corruption
Peter Oborne – Boris Johnson: The billionaires’ useful idiot
A week late, but still an excellent analysis. Is valid for many other European nations Peter Oborne won best commentary/blogging in both 2022 and 2017, and was also named freelancer of the year in 2016 […]
Corruption
euobserver: How industry watered-down new EU supply chain rules
The rules say the EU Commission’s regulatory board is not supposed to discuss individual files in meetings with lobbyists, but the evidence in our report reveals a major loophole: they can be — and are […]
Climate Crisis
euronews: Chaos erupts at the European Parliament as three key climate laws are postponed
Its payday in Brussels today as commissioners and parliamentarians will be remunerated by corporate lobbyists for watering down still another a climate law. Again, the German hypocrites played a major role in sabotaging the bill […]
Corruption
Euractiv: EU Parliament hit by ‘tsunami of lobbying’
Lobbying is a name given to corruption, which has been legalised by lawmakers who are the recipients of bribes, jobs, donations, etc Read Here Photo: Kiwiev Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory – Inside Job
How business lobbyists used the EU Commission’s scrutiny procedures to weaken human rights and environmental legislation The Corporate Europe Observatory is a non-profit research and campaign group whose declared aim is to “expose any effects […]
Corruption
Patrick Cockburn: Pluto-Populism
The stench of corruption is strong everywhere while their governments become more authoritarian and seek to maximise their control of the media. Patrick Cockburn is the author of War in the Age of Trump (Verso) Cross-posted […]
Corruption
Karen Sharpe – Julian Assange: He Fought For Truth and the Freedom to Publish — Now We Must Fight to Save Him
Julian Assange, the founder and publisher of WikiLeaks, who is languishing in a high-security London prison awaiting a ruling to determine whether he will be extradited to the US to ultimately spend the rest of […]