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
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 […]
Corruption
João Paulo Batalha – Corruption in Portugal: The mighty have fallen – the elite’s day of reckoning
A prime minister, a banker, the heads of the top telecom company, construction moguls, assorted friends and family. Portugal’s biggest corruption case ever is a veritable who’s who of the nation’s political and business elite. […]
Corruption
Anna Minton: Developers are using culture as a Trojan horse in their planning battles
It’s an old story in many cities. Artists move into a derelict building, because the need cheap ateliers or rehearsal rooms. The building becomes hip, property developers buy it and throw out the artists. Luxury flats […]
Corruption
The Guardian: Iceland PM sold bank assets hours before financial crash, leaks show
The current prime minister of Iceland sold over a million Euros in assets in the Glitnir bank just hours before the the state took control of the collapsing bank in 2008 Read here
Corruption
Client Earth: Client Earth launches legal action to avert another Dieselgate
Once again the European Union demonstrates that commerce and the money that the car industry is raining upon political parties is more important than the health of its citizens. Once again it is the citizens […]
Corruption
Wyn Grant: The murky world of lobbying
Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (Speri) Despite recent reforms, there are still concerns that the activities of lobbyists lack transparency and are insufficiently regulated Read here
Climate Crisis
DeSmog UK – European Parliament: Say No to Fossil Fuel Lobbying at International Climate Talks
We shall see what becomes of this. Read here
Corruption
João Paulo Batalha – Nowhere to run: Portuguese local elections signal the death of politics-as-usual
The headline from last weekend’s municipal elections in Portugal is the success of the Socialist Party, an exception to the demise of the European center-left. But there are deeper lessons if you look at the […]