Austerity
Bill Mitchell: Is there hope for a post neoliberal world?
We are all realising that our political class – the large parties and their lobbying machines – only want power. Something has to give. Read Article HERE Photo: Screen grab
Regulatory Capture
Corruption
Maureen Tkacik, Chris Hedges: The Narco-Trafficking Elite Set to Run Venezuela
Paedophiles, drug mafia, corruption – welcome to the US elite History, as it’s understood in most Western countries, often misses important chapters that leave critical gaps in the story of how modern countries came to […]
Corruption
Robin McAlpine – The failure of politics? You can’t fix what you can’t see
Policymakers are far too stuck in their own bubble to properly understand how their policies impact on people. Unless they learn to count what matters to real people rather than corporations, the fraying of democracy […]
Climate Crisis
Rubén Lo Vuolo – The environmental crisis is driven by class interest
Latin America is one of the regions most affected by extreme weather events, has the highest number of crimes against defenders of planetary health, and uses ‘collective natural resources for the benefit of wealthy minorities.’ […]
Economics
Norman Finkelstein – Jewish Supremacy
12 December 2025
Corruption
The Cradle: Zelensky ‘systematically sabotaged’ Ukraine anti-corruption efforts
Close associates of Zelensky recently fled to Israel amid allegations of a $100 million corruption scheme Read Article HERE Photo licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license
Corruption
Ivor Chipkin, Jelena Vidojević – Elite Populism and the Ideology of State Capture: South Africa’s Warning for the United States and other Democracies
Authoritarian tendencies and movements all over the world now speak the language of decolonial populism Ivor Chipkin is at the New South Institute and the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) Jelena Vidojević is Head […]
EU politics
Euronews – Amazon internet service outage highlights EU’s ‘overwhelming reliance on Big Tech’
If a Chinese company had gone down and it had knocked out wide sections of Europe’s internet, a continent-wide emergency would have been announced. But when it’s American big tech that goes wrong, there is […]
Corruption
Robin McAlpine – The biggest threat we face? The rich
We’ve been trained never to criticise the rich and instead to celebrate their ‘wealth creation’. New research suggests that in reality, they threaten our way of life most of all. Robin McAlpine is Head of […]
Corruption
Ralph Nader, Chris Hedges – It’s Time to Fight Back Against Trump’s Fascist Regime
As the Trump administration’s repression increases by the day, Ralph Nader reminds us that we are not “nobodies,” and that together, with collective power, we can invoke serious change. Are you a worker? Yes. Are […]