Austerity
George Packer – USA: We Are Living in a Failed State
This is a powerful piece, which might make some people view the EU in its true condition: a failed union. Read here
Lobbying
Corruption
Joe Stiglitz, Arjun Jayadev, Achal Prabhala – Patents vs. the Pandemic
With the COVID-19 death toll rising, we should question the wisdom and morality of an IP system that silently condemns millions of human beings to suffering and death every year. Joe Stiglitz is Co-Chair, Commission […]
Aviation
Sven Giegold – Lobbyists are Trying to Water Down a Sustainable Way out of the Corona Crisis
Sven Giegold warns that the Coronavirus pandemic has been used as a pretext by powerful lobbies to weaken and delay a European Green Deal. Sven Giegold is a German Green MEP Cross-posted from Source Picture […]
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory – Don’t let Industrial Farming and Corporate Lobbies use the COVID-19 Crisis to Defend Continued Pesticide Use
Nothing new at the EU. Germans and Austrians leading the attack against democratically initiated laws that were created to protect the environment. Germany’s Bayer/Monsato and BASF are two of the world’s largest pesticide producers, with […]
Corruption
Marina Calculli – Life vs Profit: the Real ‘War’ in Times of Coronavirus
The State needs people to be alive to construct the mythical social contract with them. But Capital is the actual deep state. Marina Calculli is a Lecturer in International Relations at Leiden University Cross-posted from […]
Climate Crisis
Daniela Gabor- Is the EU really going to put Blackrock – the arch purveyors of greenwash – in charge of EU green accounting?
This is very unorthodox, but we consider this twitter thread from Daniela Gabor so important that we are posting it in its entirety. Daniela Gabor is Professor of Economics and Macro-Finance at the University of […]
Austerity
Emma Clancy – Austerity Kills: EU Commission Demanded Cuts to Public Healthcare Spending 63 Times from 2011-2018
The truth is that these things always end up being caused by EU neo-liberal policy, although they receive support from the various national governments, who like the EU politicians and technocrats, want to collect the […]
Corruption
BBC: US airlines used up spare cash buying back shares
Over years we have read how corporations have stopped investing, instead buying back shares to drive up the price of their, thus enriching the rich and the managers. Now they want us to bail them […]
Aviation
BBC: Coronavirus: Due to EU Airlines flying near-empty and empty planes
One sees why neo-liberalism is failing not only the environment but also the economy. Law to protect capitalism are all that count and that is what organisations like the EU are there for, to enforce […]
Climate Crisis
Damien Thomson – EU Parliament Fails to Block Approval for Fossil Fuel Projects
Forget the EU’s Green Deal. Call it climate hypocrisy instead. One day the European Parliament declares a climate emergency, now they vote in favour of fracking. Again it was EU hegemon Germany behind this vote. […]