Corruption
Yanis Varoufakis – Is the EU Recovery Fund a step toward integration or further fragmentation?
Yanis Vraoufakis’ analysis concerning the EU is as usual excellent. His solutions are definitely open to debate. Listen here
Political Parties
Corruption
Richard Murphy – Doctors are suggesting our politicians might be committing social murder and the press does not notice. How does that happen?
This is a topic that has been meticulously avoided by corporate media and has been kept out of the public discourse: responsibility of governments for hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths. Richard Murphy is a […]
Corruption
Antonio Lettieri – Covid, Italy, and the EU: From Bad to Worse
Instead of building back better, the EU and eurozone are deepening the crisis it has been mired in for over a decade. In Italy both economically and politically. Antonio Lettieri is Editor of Insight and […]
Corruption
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World by Tom Burgis
Book Review by David Shirreff First, the good news. This is undoubtedly a useful book. It is a mine of information and anecdote, cleverly told, about the kleptocrats who apparently move untroubled around the world […]
Corruption
Toni Strubell, Núria Bassa – EU COVID funds for Spain: will they never learn?
The Next Generation EU programme seems to be doomed by the EU’s endemic corruption, for example Spain. Toni Strubell is a former MP in the Catalan Parliament, journalist, and author of What Catalans Want Núria […]
Corruption
Toni Strubell, Núria Bassa – Els fons COVID-19 per a Espanya. La UE no n’aprendrà mai?
You can read the article in English here La crisi del coronavirus ha posat de manifest les limitacions i els riscos del sistema capitalista no només en l’àmbit humà i social, sinó també en el […]
Corruption
GPEnewsdocs – Dean Baker On Beating Inequality & COVID-19: Tackle Patent and Copyright Monopolies
Intellectual property like pharmaceutical patents is part of the story why so many people face a long wait for COVID-19 vaccines says Dean Baker discussing the high cost of policy choices that make the rich […]
Corruption
Jonathan Cook – Trump may be on trial, but the system that produced him will be acquitted
Jonathan Cook keeping his eye on the political ball. Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, since 2001 Cross-posted from Jonathan Cook’s website To read the tweets in this article in […]
Austerity
Mathew D. Rose – EU Citizens: “We do believe in fairies. We do! We do!”
What few seem to register is the complete failure of Europe’s political class in 2020, not to mention the missed opportunities that the COVID crisis offered. This is not only with regard to health, but […]
Corruption
Thomas Klikauer, Nadine Campbell – The “New” Corporation
For corporations profit takes priority over everything else, the environment, health, public services, and democracy itself. They are programmed to destroy us. Thomas Klikauer teaches MBAs at the Sydney Graduate School of Management, Western Sydney […]