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Abby Innes – The dismantling of the State since the 1980s: Brexit is the wrong diagnosis of a real crisis

August 29, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Abby Innes writes that the vote to leave the EU and the administrative chaos around it pull into focus the crisis we should have been talking about before: the failures of homegrown neoliberal policies and […]

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Frank van Lerven and Margaret Welsh – A deregulatory agenda is sweeping across Europe

August 29, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

A new agenda – misleadingly called ​‘Better Regulation’ – has recently swept across Europe, undermining the protections and values that we rely on for a healthy planet and an empowered public. It was promoted as […]

Corruption

The Political Economy of Italy’s Decline by Andrea Lorenzo Capussela

August 21, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Mathew D. Rose Andrea Capussela has a tale to tell – and he does it well. This book could not have appeared at a more opportune moment as it seeks to illuminate […]

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IMF internal watchdog condemns the institution’s mishandling of Greece “rescue”

July 31, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Here two articles concerning the report by the internal auditor of the IMF concerning its disastrous handling of Greece´s “financial rescue” Read here (easier to read) and here (better analysis)

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Global Finance: Auditing The Auditors

July 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Recent audit failures are bringing new scrutiny to the dominance and business practices of the Big Four accounting firms. Read here

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Bill Mitchell: The neoliberal ‘progressives’ and their bankster mates are becoming rattled

July 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The “Third Way” social democrats in Europe and “liberal democrats” in the US are politically bankrupt. Their only assets are the donations from financial institutions and international corporations, but as we saw with Hilary Clinton, […]

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This is Money: Fury at United Utilities as it pays £180m dividend while planning to impose a hosepipe ban on customers

July 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is the sort of predatory capitalism being promoted by the EU neo-liberalism. Utilities should be privatised as the private sector is “more efficient”. This is just half the story. In the end the state […]

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Corruption

New Economics Foundation – Reprotection: halting the EU’s deregulation drive

July 19, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

“Over the last decade, European politicians have started to undermine the protections that many people depend on. And Brexit is set to make things worse.” This raises the question of who understands the role of […]

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Corruption

Tax Justice Network – Country by country reports: why “automatic” is no replacement for “public

July 18, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

This article brings us up to date concerning the struggle to tackle tax haven by making their business transparent, and the attempts by the German government, big business, and the OECD to stymie this. By […]

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Corporate Europe Observatory – Accounting for influence: how the Big Four are embedded in EU policy-making on tax avoidance

July 11, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

We pay our taxes, so why don’t corporations? This new report shows how the Big Four are embedded in EU policy-making on tax avoidance, and concludes that it is time to kick this industry out […]

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Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia – A Critical History by Marko Grdešić and Mislav Žitko

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Book Review by Branko Milanovic´ When on 28 June of 1948 Joseph Stalin wrote a latter on behalf of the Cominform to ask Yugoslavia’s communists to get rid of the “Titoist clique” and to return […]

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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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