Climate Crisis
Unearthed: Trade group including Facebook, Google to ‘oppose’ EU climate efforts
Leaked document details BusinessEurope’s campaign to undermine EU attempts to cut climate emissions Read here
Corruption
Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory – Coal is king at UN climate talks in Poland
Next week, countries will gather in Katowice, Poland, for the latest round of UN climate negotiations, known as COP24. Their plan is to try to agree on how to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement. However, […]
Corruption
William Davies: Why we stopped trusting elites
This is a truly fascinating article, but on the other hand Davies does not mention the most important, and really only pertinent fact: with neo-liberalism we are experiencing one of the most rabid attacks of […]
Corruption
BBC – The Romanian forest that’s disappearing
Romania: Rampant corruption, building cheap cars for Renault, exporting cheap labour to Western Europe, destroying its environment. Another EU success story. Watch here
Corruption
VilaWeb – Luis Gonzalo Segura: “The Spanish army has adopted NATO’s standards but remains Francoist at heart”
The problem is that when you look a bit closer at EU member states what you find is anything but the enlightenment and democratisation that was supposed to have occurred. Read here
Corruption
Elmar Müller – German Landesbanks: The good, the bad, and the ugly
“While in principle these state-owned wholesale banks are an excellent idea, their history has been marred by corruption, sleaze, and clientelism by Germany´s parasitic political parties” This is a typical example of the endemic corruption […]
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory – Under plastics pressure
Industry turns up the heat to avoid plastics regulation spurred by public demand. As EU negotiators try to reach agreement on the single-use plastics proposal this week, industry lobbies continue their push to avoid robust […]
Corruption
Public Services International – Conflict of interest: corporations lead UN promotion of controversial PPPs
Corporations seem to dominate the UN, like everything else, these days. For a similar case with regard to human rights and corporation at the UN, please see our review of the book “Corporate Human Rights […]
Corruption
The Guardian: Disney, Huawei and EY among worst offenders in disclosing lobbying
What no one wishes to admit is that lobbying is simply rampant corruption that has been anchored in legality by those who profit from it: politicians. Simple principles like a level playing field – a […]
Austerity
Tax Justice Network – Taxcast November 2018
In the November 2018 Tax Justice Network monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast: we look at how governments can better protect, encourage and even incentivise whistleblowers. what do the latest Brexit developments tell us about dark […]