Austerity
Michael Roberts – Spain: the challenge for Sanchez
Michael Roberts analyses the Spanish economy and why it remains subdued. Read here
Corruption
Corruption
Richard Brooks: The financial scandal no one is talking about
This article features extracts from Richard Brook’s new book, Bean Counters: The Triumph of the Accountants and How They Broke Capitalism. Read here See our review of the book here
Corruption
Nick Dearden: Big tech companies are trying to rewrite the rules to get your data
Dearden addresses all destructive march of tech companies through our societies and how they are using politicians to stop us from stopping them. Read here
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory – Post-scandal Facebook: will the EU stop treating the tech giant as a trusted partner?
Following the Cambridge Analytica affair and the massive leak of 87 million people’s data revealed earlier this year, Facebook is facing unprecedented scrutiny of its business model and especially its use of users’ personal data. […]
Climate Crisis
Kai Whiting and Luis Gabriel Carmona – The hidden carbon cost of everyday products
Andrey N Bannov / shutterstock Kai Whiting, Universidade de Lisboa and Luis Gabriel Carmona, Universidade de Lisboa The targets set in the Paris Agreement on climate change are ambitious but necessary. Failure to meet them […]
Corruption
Simon Wren-Lewis: A rotten corporate culture
” The problem is that the senior managers, the auditors and the Board are not in prison and have not even suffered any financial loss.” Simon Wren-Lewis tells it like it is. Read here
Corruption
Beancounters – The Triumph of the Accountants and How they broke Capitalism by Richard Brooks
Book review by Atul K. Shah As Private Eye journalist, Richard Brooks has long been responsible for exposing corporate corruption, especially around tax avoidance and evasion. One story kept on repeating in his research – […]
Corruption
Prem Sikka: Tax-haven transparency won’t stop money laundering in Britain
Money laundering is not an accident, aberration, or crime. It is an institution. Read here
Corruption
El Pais: Madrid regional premier Cristina Cifuentes quits after video of her shoplifting emerges
This story is a metaphor for much of Europe’s political elite: A master’s degree from a university that had absolutely no basis in reality. All records have been lost. Shoplifting (she claims to have paid […]
Corruption
The Irish Times – Spain: Madrid regional president faces fake degree allegations
This is truly a remarkable story – and that in a nation where the governmng Partido Popular claims to be protecting the rule of law in Catalonia. Apparently there is no law for members of […]