Corruption
Politico: Bulgaria sinks under wave of pre-election scandals
Ahead of elections on July 11, Bulgarians are confronted by alarming revelations of state capture. Read here
Regulatory Capture
Corruption
Thomas Klikauer and Nadine Campbell: How Corporations Seek to Control Civil Societies Through Political “Influence” and Monopolies
It all comes down to the fact that we have a capitalist class that is extremely aggressive and has things under control. Thomas Klikauer teaches at the Sydney Graduate School of Management at Western Sydney University, […]
Corruption
Thomas Klikauer, Catherine Link – The Good-Doing Elite
“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change” Thomas Klikauer teaches MBAs at the Sydney Graduate School of Management, Western Sydney University, Australia Catherine Link is at the Western […]
Corruption
GPEnewsdocs – Pat Mooney: The 2021 Corporate Bamboozle On World Food Systems
Mega-corporations are all set to walk away with the keys to global governance of food and agriculture at the UN Food Systems Summit later this year. Pat Mooney talks about what is at stake and […]
Austerity
Thomas Fazi – The Eternal Return of “Technical Government” in Italy
If there is a country that epitomizes the perils of technopopulism, it is Italy Read here
Corruption
Rachel Etter-Phoya – Africa and the corrosive international tax system
Two-thirds of corporate tax abuse, which forms a substantial part of illicit financial flows, is enabled by member countries of the OECD Rachel Etter-Phoya is the Tax Justice Network’s Senior Researcher, Anglophone African Hub Cross […]
Corruption
Prem Sikka – The finance curse is holding back the UK economy
The finance industry is the only one that regularly needs to be bailed out by taxpayers Read here
Climate Crisis
Ben Wray – Europe is Covered in Greenwash
Five years after the Paris Agreement, consensus reigns among governments, yet emissions continue to rise nonetheless. Ben Wray, Bella’s European Feature Writer, finds that government greenwash is now our biggest threat, and the European Commission […]
Corruption
Richard D. Wolff – Increasing Desperation as the U.S. Capitalist System Declines
Is the Biden government just another attempt to stop the great capitalist train crash? Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a visiting professor in the Graduate […]
Corruption
The Counterbalance – The European System of Monopoly
An interview with Tommaso Valletti, who served as Chief Competition Economist at the European Commission from 2016 until 2019. He tells us how, after moving from academic life to policy and being confronted with questions […]