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Reuters: Estonia scraps key part of new anti-money laundering legislation

January 19, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

The new EU member states have sussed it out: the political class makes the laws – for themselves and their wealthy clientel. It took a while, but they are finally integrated in the European Union. […]

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Mathew D. Rose – Why the Far Right came to embrace the EU

January 17, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

What happened to the Far Right threat to the EU? Despite all the threats and resulting headlines it has disappeared. Probably because they may no longer be a threat to the EU, but the saviour […]

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euobserver: Centre-right MEPs want transparency vote to be secret

January 16, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

That is transparency à la EU. What a farce. The EU poltical class seems very busy subverting democracy these days (Read here and here) Read here

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Serge Halimi: Forgotten France rises up

January 10, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

A brilliant article. Le Monde diplomatique at its best. The social reality Halimi describes could be the UK. Also the forces protecting neo-liberalism: Graduates, the middle class, those in big cities, the EU ‘Journalists must […]

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Tabe Bergman – Fixing the problems of politics and media as usual: not with a media revolution, but ending economic insecurity

January 8, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

With increasingly corrupt state and corporate media, as well as growing inequality, with people having three jobs to survive and little time for politics, democracy is being rapidly eroded. New politics and new media are […]

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Caroline Holmund: As Foreign Firms Flee, Bulgaria Must Finally Curb Its Corruption Problem

January 7, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Better late than never. Do not forget, this is an EU nation. There are others just as corrupt, such as Romania and Malta, although corruption, legal and illegal, is endemic in most of the EU. […]

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Philippe Marlière – The yellow vests, or the discrediting of representative democracy

January 3, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

“Even though the most scathing criticism is directed at the president of the republic, it is the entire political personnel that is targeted by the mocking, unflattering, even hatefilled comments.” Philippe Marlière is a Professor […]

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El Pais: Spain modernizing Venezuelan tanks despite EU-wide arms embargo

January 2, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

As one sees there is no difference between the “centrist” corrupt Partido Popular and the “centrist” corrupt Social Democrats in Spain. This is pretty much true throughout most of Europe South of Scandinavia. Read here

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David Jamieson – Viktor Orban is dismantling Hungarian democracy piece by piece – within the EU

December 14, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Hungarian autocrat creates new political courts system and attacks workers’ rights – while benefiting from influx of European capital David Jamieson is a CommonSpace journalist based in Glasgow Cross-posted from Common Space Nowhere is this […]

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Kyiv Post – Cost of corruption: Ukraine loses $8.6 billion annually to poor management, graft, study finds

December 13, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is the democracy for which the EU and IMF are giving billions of euros? At least we now know where the money is going. The real question is, how much is going back to […]

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Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by Avi Shlaim

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Book Review by Hossam el-Hamalawy Avi Shlaim’s Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine is a book written in the midst of catastrophe, not after its dust has settled.  It is a work shaped […]

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After Nations – The Making and Unmaking of a World Order by Rana Dasgupta

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Reviewed by Branko Milanovic´ This new splendid and beautifully-written book by Rana Dasgupta has as its title After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order. The idea, briefly sketched in the introduction and […]

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