Austerity
George Packer – USA: We Are Living in a Failed State
This is a powerful piece, which might make some people view the EU in its true condition: a failed union. Read here
Political Parties
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory – Don’t let Industrial Farming and Corporate Lobbies use the COVID-19 Crisis to Defend Continued Pesticide Use
Nothing new at the EU. Germans and Austrians leading the attack against democratically initiated laws that were created to protect the environment. Germany’s Bayer/Monsato and BASF are two of the world’s largest pesticide producers, with […]
Austerity
Emma Clancy – Austerity Kills: EU Commission Demanded Cuts to Public Healthcare Spending 63 Times from 2011-2018
The truth is that these things always end up being caused by EU neo-liberal policy, although they receive support from the various national governments, who like the EU politicians and technocrats, want to collect the […]
Corruption
The Tortoise Podcast – Daphne Caruana Galizia: My mother’s murder – Episode 3
Daphne Caruana Galizia was Malta’s pre-eminent investigative journalist. She exposed corruption at the highest levels of politics and business in the country until, in October 2017, she was murdered by a car bomb. Since her […]
Climate Crisis
Laura Merrill – Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Taxation: Two Sides of the same Carbon Coin
Generous government subsidies around the world are, even now, enabling the extraction and burning of fossil fuels that would otherwise remain in the ground. A global technocratic elite that claims to value market forces is […]
Corruption
DW: Murder of Jan Kuciak: 13 judges arrested in Slovakia
Odd, it was the justice systems in Poland and Hungary the EU was examining. Corruption appears to be compatible with the EU concept of justice. Spain’s justice system is also a disaster, but hey ho, […]
Corruption
The Tortoise Podcast – Daphne Caruana Galizia: My mother’s murder – Episode 2
Daphne Caruana Galizia was Malta’s pre-eminent investigative journalist. She exposed corruption at the highest levels of politics and business in the country until, in October 2017, she was murdered by a car bomb. Since her […]
Corruption
Michael Hudson – USA: In a Struggle Between Oligarchy and Democracy, Something Must Give
Again, outside of our remit, but we thought after all the rubbish Europeans are being fed by corporate media concerning the US elections, we would provide a different perspective. Michael Hudson is an American economist, […]
Corruption
Chris Bambery – Spain’s King of Bung and Endemic Corruption
The other side of the coin from state terror is corruption. Spain: Rampant corruption, abuse of women, state terror in Catalonia and the Basque Country. Another model EU nation. Chris Bambery is author and broadcaster. […]
Corruption
Claire Jones: The World Bank paper at the centre of a controversy
When corruption sets in, the fish rots from the head: in this case recent actions of the World Bank carry a whiff of something not quite right! Read here