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Branko Milanović – Kleptocracy and kakistocracy in 1990s Russia

December 25, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

This may be predatory capitalism in Wild East fashion, but the same structures and methods are to be found in capitalism in the Western nations. It is called private equity. Branko Milanović is an economist […]

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Malta Independent: Malta is a mafia state, claims author

December 16, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Isn’t Malta a member of the EU? Read here

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Martin Galea De Giovanni – When big business captures the state: murder by capitalism

December 11, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Malta has a ‘Labour’ (Social Democrat) government whose major battle cry has been to be the most business-friendly government in Malta’s history. Martin Galea De Giovanni is Director of Friends of the Earth Malta. Cross-posted […]

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Influence Map – The EU’s Sustainable Finance Taxonomy: An analysis of how business has sought to influence this key EU policy

December 5, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

This would be the world’s first regulatory benchmark for green financial products. Of course corporations and many EU governments are trying to corrupt it to support profits, but resulting in further damage to the environment. […]

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Justin Borg-Barthet – Malta: A Captured State

December 3, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Why the EU has to Intervene Quickly in the Rule of Law Crisis in Malta Justin Borg-Barthet is a Senior Lecturer in EU Law at the University of Aberdeen. Cross-posted from Verfassungsblog In the immediate […]

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Jillian Ambrose: Fossil fuel lobbyists push to dilute EU anti-greenwash plan

December 2, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is an exceptionally important article about a topic that is being conveniently ignored by most mainstream media. Energy industry in particularly fights back against planned new rules on green labelling Read here

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Corporate Europe Observatory: Picking up the plastics trail: how Ireland cooperated with the plastics industry

December 1, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Corporate lobbies often exert heavy pressure on member states’ decision-making in the Council of the EU, especially when it comes to making new rules and regulations. But how does the influencing work in practice? Read […]

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Frances Coppola – Britain: The Tories aren’t the Party of Business – just the London Financial Elite

November 27, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Conservative Party used to look after big, nationwide businesses. Now it serves a finance industry based in a few small areas of the capital. What is unfortunately not mentioned is that this system is […]

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Corporate Europe Observatory – EU: Thierry Breton, the Corporate Commissioner?

November 13, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

After seeing his first pick for Commissioner rejected by the European Parliament due to concerns of conflict of interests, French President Macron seems to have doubled down with a potentially even more controversial nomination: Thierry […]

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David Keating: European Investment Bank Delays EU Fossil Fuel Phase-Out Proposal

November 13, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

An alcoholic, the Germans, and Orban join forces to protect fossil fuel corporations and destroy the planet. Read here

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Branko Milanović – “J’avais toujours raison”

October 31, 2025 0

A review of Raymond Aron’s “Memoires” Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His new book, The Visions of inequality, was published October 10, 2023. Cross-posed from Branko Milanović’s blog Global Inequality and More 3.0 […]

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Complicit – Britain’s role in Israel’s genocide by Peter Oborne

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Book Review by Martin Shaw Cross.posted from Declassified UK As British people have turned against Israel’s destruction of Gaza, leading figures in its present and former governing parties still deny that Israel has committed even […]

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