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Joe Stiglitz, Arjun Jayadev, Achal Prabhala – Patents vs. the Pandemic

April 24, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

With the COVID-19 death toll rising, we should question the wisdom and morality of an IP system that silently condemns millions of human beings to suffering and death every year. Joe Stiglitz is Co-Chair, Commission […]

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Corporate Europe Observatory – Don’t let Industrial Farming and Corporate Lobbies use the COVID-19 Crisis to Defend Continued Pesticide Use

April 22, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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Emma Clancy – Austerity Kills: EU Commission Demanded Cuts to Public Healthcare Spending 63 Times from 2011-2018

March 29, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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Nick Shaxson – Could the Wealth in Tax Havens Help us Pay for the Coronavirus Response?

March 28, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

In this Corona Crisis a radical redistribution of wealth is necessary, and what better place to find it than on the “Treasure Islands”. But there is more, much more to this. Nick Shaxson is an […]

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Laura Merrill – Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Taxation: Two Sides of the same Carbon Coin

March 12, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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DW: Murder of Jan Kuciak: 13 judges arrested in Slovakia

March 11, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

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, […]

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Corporate European Observatory – Chemical nations: how member states defend their dirty industries

March 11, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Czech PM Andrej Babiš is the de facto owner of major #titaniumdioxide producer Precheza. Is it any wonder that the Czech Govt & Babiš’ MEPs tried to block the chemical’s classification as “suspected carcinogen”? No. […]

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Steffi Doebler – The UK University Strikes are about more than Pensions, Pay and Equality – we Need to Change the Very Way, UK Higher Education is Run

March 11, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

This newest phase of UK University Strike has entered its fourth an final week. This strike is about much, much more than economic demands. It is about saving universities, one of the fundaments of our […]

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BBC: Coronavirus: Due to EU Airlines flying near-empty and empty planes

March 10, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

One sees why neo-liberalism is failing not only the environment but also the economy. Law to protect capitalism are all that count and that is what organisations like the EU are there for, to enforce […]

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The Tortoise Podcast – Daphne Caruana Galizia: My mother’s murder – Episode 2

March 8, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

August 10, 2025 0

Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

July 2, 2025 0

Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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