Corruption
Alexander Clapp: A Greek Bearing Gifts
Oligarch watch. Fascinating article. We need to start thinking about the Transnational Network of Plunder (TNP) as the unit of analysis. Read here
Corruption
Corruption
Valerio Alfonso Bruno – Mind the Gap! On the Irreconcilable Distance between Europe´s Social Democrats and the People (and how Populisms filled it)
Europe is witnessing the disappearance of social democratic political parties. Tradition conservative parties are heading inexorably in the same direction. Europe is going through radical changes with regard to parties. The question is if political […]
Corruption
BBC: Romania protests: Thousands hold fresh rallies after clashes
Romania is an EU member state. And yes, these are Social Democrats and Liberals, both considered excessively corrupt, members respectively of the social democratic Party of European Socialists and Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for […]
Corruption
AP: Romanian expats stage huge anti-govt protest in Bucharest
Romania is an EU member state. And yes, these are Social Democrats and Liberals, both considered excessively corrupt, members respectively of the social democratic Party of European Socialists and Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for […]
Corruption
Romania Insider.com: Romania’s ruling party prepares high-treason case against president
Yes, Romania is an EU member state. And yes, these are Social Democrats and Liberals, both considered excessively corrupt, members respectively of the social democratic Party of European Socialists and Alliance of Liberals and Democrats […]
Austerity
IMF internal watchdog condemns the institution’s mishandling of Greece “rescue”
Here two articles concerning the report by the internal auditor of the IMF concerning its disastrous handling of Greece´s “financial rescue” Read here (easier to read) and here (better analysis)
Corruption
Milford Edge – The not so canny Castilian
In Germany around year 2010 numerous leading politicians including ministers had to resign as it was revealed that they had copiously plagiarised or had not written their own dissertations. In Spain things seem to be […]
Corruption
The National: Spain – Leader of People’s Party in Catalonia caught up in degree scandal
In Germany around 2010 numerous leading politicians including ministers had to resign as it was revealed that they had copiously plagiarised or had not written their own dissertations. In Spain things seem to be no […]
EU politics
Global Finance: Auditing The Auditors
Recent audit failures are bringing new scrutiny to the dominance and business practices of the Big Four accounting firms. Read here
Corruption
Bill Mitchell: The neoliberal ‘progressives’ and their bankster mates are becoming rattled
The “Third Way” social democrats in Europe and “liberal democrats” in the US are politically bankrupt. Their only assets are the donations from financial institutions and international corporations, but as we saw with Hilary Clinton, […]