Corruption
Alexander Clapp: A Greek Bearing Gifts
Oligarch watch. Fascinating article. We need to start thinking about the Transnational Network of Plunder (TNP) as the unit of analysis. Read here
National Politics
EU politics
Victoria Canning, Alaa Kassab, and Karam Yahya – From Syria to Scandinavia: Navigating the Refugee Reception Crisis
Since 2015, Europe’s so-called refugee crisis has been the centre of intense debate. But what if we began to look at it another way: as a refugee reception crisis? Rather than a crisis in the […]
EU politics
The Real News – Is Jeremy Corbyn’s “anti-Semitism Crisis” a Smear Campaign? (Pt. 1/2)
“What is happening now is exactly what was happening in Nazi Germany in the 1930s”. No, not the National Front, but the Labour Party. Really? Beside corporate Media and supporters of Israel, no one seems […]
Austerity
Aditya Chakrabortty: These councils smashed themselves to bits. Who will pick up the pieces?
Experts saw it coming – it was inevitable: The neo-liberal discourse that private is better. It is pernicious. The question is when the British will stop voting for Tory ideology and hoping a fairytale will […]
Corruption
Valerio Alfonso Bruno – Mind the Gap! On the Irreconcilable Distance between Europe´s Social Democrats and the People (and how Populisms filled it)
Europe is witnessing the disappearance of social democratic political parties. Tradition conservative parties are heading inexorably in the same direction. Europe is going through radical changes with regard to parties. The question is if political […]
Corruption
BBC: Romania protests: Thousands hold fresh rallies after clashes
Romania is an EU member state. And yes, these are Social Democrats and Liberals, both considered excessively corrupt, members respectively of the social democratic Party of European Socialists and Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for […]
Economics
Michael Roberts Blog – Turkey: total meltdown
It will be interesting to see how Erdogan manoeuvres Turkey out of this crisis…or not. Read here
EU politics
Tax Justice Network – Taxcast for August
In the August 2018 Tax Justice Network monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast: Why are so many Bermudians leaving their beautiful island? And why have inequality levels become so extreme despite it’s huge offshore services centre? […]
Austerity
Geoff Tily: UK Workers have suffered the most dismal decade for growth on record
Why the Tories are still in government is a conundrum. One can be bitter about how Labour turned against the workers, but this is simply intolerable. And do not forget the accomplides of the Tories, […]
EU politics
Jonathan Cook – The Crisis in Corbyn’s Labour Party is Over Israel, Not Anti-Semitism
In the past months there has been a great deal of discussion concerning anti-Semitism in the British Labour Party. Most of it on both sides, but especially in the corporate media, has been anything but […]