Corruption
Philip Goff: Tax rogues like Bono are harming the world’s poorest people
With the Paradise Papers in the headlines, we at BRAVE NEW EUROPE are trying to publish what we consider the best critical articles on the topic. Read here
Corruption
Corruption
Owen Jones: Tax avoidance may be legal but it’s bankrupting our social order
With the Paradise Papers in the headlines, we at BRAVE NEW EUROPE are trying to publish what we consider the best critical articles on the topic. Read here
Corruption
Aditya Chakrabortty: End these offshore games or our democracy will die
With the Paradise Papers in the headlines, we at BRAVE NEW EUROPE are trying to publish what we consider the best critical articles on the topic. Read here
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory – The Great Gas Lock-in: Industry lobbying behind the EU push for new gas infrastructure
A new report from CEO shows why the fire-power of the gas industry makes it a powerful and effective lobbying force in Brussels and national capitals. Meanwhile, public interest groups have a fraction of the resources and […]
Corruption
The Guardian: Lawyer says Foreign Office told her to ignore EU corruption evidence
A typical example of the daily corruption endemic in the EU. The EU’s attitude towards whistle-blowers appears to be similar to its attitude towards democracy: both just get in the way of the EU elite […]
Corruption
Fintan O’Toole: The corruption of Irish banking goes back 30 years
Fintan O’toole is right. The problems with the banks, be it in the US, UK, and apparently in Ireland, started 30 years ago, which is when neo-liberlalism began its crusade. It marked the end of […]
Climate Crisis
Megan Darby – UN Shipping Climate Talks ‘Captured’ by Industry
The shipping industry is one of the main cotributors to CO² and nitrogen-oxide. It is hardly regulated with regard to emissions as this article documents. Megan Darby is Climate Home’s deputy editor. She previously wrote […]
Corruption
Tax Justice Network – October Podcast
In edition 70 of the Taxcast we look at the booming business of passports and residency for sale, and why it should worry us all. Also: even the IMF now advocates wealth taxes to combat […]
Corruption
The Guardian: Malta car bomb kills Panama Papers journalist
We do not know who is responsible for this murder, but it says a lot about the deteriorating state of democracy in the EU as the political and business elite come under increasing pressure due […]
Austerity
The Corruption of Capitalism – Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay by Guy Standing
Book review by Mathew D. Rose In 2011 Guy Standing wrote a book titled “The Precariat – The New Dangerous Class”, which showed great prescience. By the second paragraph he had already predicted what would […]