Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis: How Syriza’s capitulations allowed the Greek right to escape the dustbin of history
The left-wing party’s embrace of austerity created the conditions for a parasitic and cruel oligarchy to return. Read here
Corruption
Corruption
Branko Milanović – Oligarchs and Oligarchs
Branko Milanović bringing us back into the realm of reality, beyond the pale of Manichean mainstream media. Great read. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His new book “Capitalism, Alone: The […]
Corruption
Harris Gleckman – How the United Nations is quietly being turned into a public-private partnership
A new agreement with the World Economic Forum gives multinational corporations influence over matters of global governance. Harris Gleckman is Senior Fellow at the Center for Governance and Sustainability, UMass-Boston and Director of Benchmark Environmental […]
EU politics
RTE: EU and Mercosur group agree draft free trade deal
Did anyone really expect anything else? What international corporations and Germany want from the EU, they get. Read here
Corruption
Rain Forest Rescue: EU destroys 700,000 hectares of rainforest for biofuels
The EU wants to save our climate with supposedly green biofuels and has deemed palm oil “sustainable”. Yet on the other side of the globe, rainforests are being clear-cut to produce the 1.9 million tons […]
Corruption
Bill Mitchell: The European Union once again reveals why it should be dissolved
With laws and rules and everything being “so complicated” the EU avoids any real scrutiny. Bill Mitchell is one of the few exception.s Read here
Corruption
Mathew D. Rose – A Tectonic Shift in German Politics
The major political change that is occurring in Germany cannot be comprehended by the German political class or the European corporate media because the consequences are so horrifying for them. We are seeing the harbingers […]
Corruption
João Paulo Batalha – Is No News Good News? Political Trust Vs. Political Stasis in Portugal and the EU
Citizens’ distrust for political institutions is high in Portugal – as elsewhere in Europe. That distrust, a new study shows, stems from the failings of established political parties. So why are incumbents still dominating the […]
Corruption
Mathew D. Rose – The EU Election That Wasn’t
There is an odd feeling about the EU elections. One senses that something just is not right. Mathew D. Rose is an Investigative Journalist specialised in Organised Political Crime and an editor of BRAVE NEW […]
Corruption
Politico: How Europe’s biggest media company infiltrated the EU
How Bertelsmann mixes business, philanthropy and Continental politics. Read here