Corruption
Stavroula Pabst: Are Kyiv protests pent-up anger against Zelensky?
Even EU leadership lashed out over the president’s anti-corruption legislation, after which he was forced to back-peddle Read Article HERE
Regulatory Capture
Corruption
Yanis Varoufakis – Europe Has Become a War Project
Speech by Varoufakis at the EU on the theme of “The Economic Conditions for Peace” Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist and politician. He served as the Greek Minister of Finance from January to July 2015. […]
Corruption
Balkan Insight: Fog of War: Battling a Lack of Transparency in Romanian Military Contracts
If it wasn’t for the corruption, who would need the EU? Read HERE
Deregulation
Gary Fooks – The ‘forever chemicals’ lobby is spreading disinformation and the EU is eating it up
A huge campaign by the corporate chemicals lobby is seeking to convince the EU not to place restrictions on ‘forever chemicals’ which could cost €2 trillion to clean-up. Gary Fooks is Professor in Criminology at […]
Corruption
Robin McAlpine – A shift to the angry
Capitalists and politicians have driven Western society to the brink. What comes after the anger? Robin McAlpine is Head of Strategic Development at the Common Weal think-tank in Scotland. Cross-posted from Common Weal It is […]
Corruption
Chris Hedges – How Fascism Came
America’s democracy was destroyed by the two ruling parties who sold us out to corporations, militarists and billionaires. Now we pay the price Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for […]
Economics
Chris Dillow – On ideological blindspots
The “bureaucratic class”, bad governance, are endogenous, the product of a capitalism that is failing millions and which grants political power to those opposed to useful change. Chris Dillow is an economics writer at Investors […]
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory – Uncovering Big Tech’s hidden network
Conflicts of interest gone wild in the world of EU big tech regulation. This investigation was a joint initiative between the Corporate Europe Observatory, SOMO and Lobby Control. Cross-posted from Corporate Europe Observatory Over the […]
Climate Crisis
euronews: Shell, BP, Exxon: Seized emails reveal ‘deceptive’ climate tactics and greenwashing
Shell is not willing to reduce CO2 emissions beyond levels that make “business sense”, according to a PR email unearthed in a US investigation. Read HERE
Corruption
Pištaljka: Snežana Đurić – Former Serbian Anti-Corruption Chief on Trial for Corruption, Is a Fugitive from Justice but Works for the UN
Serbia once again demonstrates its disregard for the rule of law concerning corruption Pištaljka (The Whistle) is a whistleblowing platform ins Serbia Cross-posted from Pištaljka Read the Serbian version HERE Zorana Marković The United Nations […]