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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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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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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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Politico: EU legislators rake in millions in outside earnings

July 11, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is just the tip of the iceberg. What about the jobs following their time at the EU? What about jobs now for their family members? What about the perks: travel, gifts, entertainment? What about […]

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David Whyte – Two neoliberal infernos: Grenfell, and Piper Alpha 30 years on

July 9, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Profit-before-safety, warnings ignored, 239 people dead. Britain’s oil bonanza and London’s gentrification have much in common. David Whyte is Professor of Socio-legal studies at the University of Liverpool. His most recent book is The Violence […]

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Corruption

Prem Sikka: After decades of following a failed economic model, we need to reshape the state

July 6, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The neo-liberal state has become a guarantor of corporate profits and engineer for increased inequaltiy . This has to change. . Read here

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Corruption

Andrea Capussela – Illegality and Italy’s new government

July 5, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Andrea Capussela has the courage to address probably the greatest threat to democracy in Europe: corruption. One can safely claim that in Germany there is hardly a major law or government contract, which is not purchased […]

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Corporate Europe Observatory: Biosafety in Danger – How industry, researchers and negotiators collaborate to undermine the UN Biodiversity Convention

July 3, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Documents released to Corporate Europe Observatory following a Freedom of Information request reveal how pro-biotech lobby platform Public Research Regulation Initiative (PRRI) unites industry, researchers and regulators in ‘like-minded’ groups to influence crucial international biosafety […]

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Academics Against Press Publishers’ Right: 169 European Academics Warn Against It

July 3, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Once again corporate media has bought itself an EU law. This would be a serious blow for democracy and freedom of the press, only serving corporate financial interest. It is nothing abstract and would radically […]

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Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by Avi Shlaim

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Book Review by Hossam el-Hamalawy Avi Shlaim’s Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine is a book written in the midst of catastrophe, not after its dust has settled.  It is a work shaped […]

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