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The Guardian: Catalan leader ordered to stay in jail as court rejects ‘political prisoner’ claims

January 7, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Is this the future of democracy in the EU? The Spanish government calls for new elections in Catalonia. The pro-independence parties win. One leader is kept in prison, the other outside of Catalonia. This is […]

EU politics

The Irish Times: ‘Double Irish’ and ‘Dutch Sandwich’ saved Google $3.7bn in tax in 2016

January 6, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Irish government supports tax-evading Google. The Irish government is profiting at the cost of the rest of the EU. By providing international corporations with legal tax dodges, it is depriving the rest of the EU […]

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Stephen I. Pogany – Europe’s illiberal states: why Hungary and Poland are turning away from constitutional democracy

January 4, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The former Soviet satellite nations had to accept neo-liberalism to join the EU. Political liberalism was not a prerequisite. Steven I Pogany provides some unusually good insights concerning East European nations in the EU. Stephen […]

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Bill Mitchell: Ireland – not as rosy as the official story might suggest

January 3, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Ireland has made itself look ridiculous. Official figures showed the Irish economy grew by an unbelievable 26pc in 2016 – more than three times faster than first thought. This was quickly dismissed by economists as “farcical”. […]

EU politics

An interview with Steven Forti: Two Catalonias

January 2, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

A lengthy but very informative interview with Steven Forti, Professor of Contemporary History at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Read here      

Austerity

Aditya Chakrabortty: Our benefits system has become a racket for cheating the poor

January 2, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Behind the “News” are people, who are seldom mentioned. When they do appear briefly and rarely, it is mostly in a sanitised and aestheticized version. Aditya Chakrabortty has been trying for years to turn this […]

Corruption

The Guardian: Cloud of corruption hangs over Bulgaria as it takes up EU presidency

December 29, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Among journalists there is a trick to getting controversial articles past the powers that be: wait until between Christmas and New Year. This is a real corker in the Guardian, explaining why despite the horrendous […]

Austerity

Bill Mitchell: Germany – a most dangerous and ridiculous nation

December 28, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

In this typically lengthy article Mitchell reviews how and why Germany is imposing its economic policy upon Europe. Read here  

EU politics

Slugger O’Toole: Spain’s unionist prime minister has just given us an object lesson in how not to hold a country together

December 28, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is an interesting Northern-Irish take on the current Catalan conflict. Read here  

Economics

Simon Wren-Lewis: Voting Labour isn’t going to turn the UK into Venezuela

December 28, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Wren-Lewis explains why the policies of Britian’s labour Party are not lunacy, but sound economics – for some policies of which he carries a share of responsibilty. Read here  

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A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges

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Book Review by Chris Green It provides a modicum of relief to one’s mental health to turn from Nicholas Kristof’s lame bothsidesism and Bernie Sanders’s blather about Israel’s “right to defend itself” to reading Chris […]

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Abundance – How We Build a Better Future by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

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Book Review by Michael Roberts Abundance is a new book that has been attracting attention and debate among mainstream economists and politicians.  It aims to explain to Democrat members in the US why their party […]

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