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Philip Pettit – Living with a hard Brexit

January 11, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Ireland has a problem – an enormous problem. No EU nation will be more affected by Brexit, due to its soft border with Northern Ireland. Negotiating are the United Kingdom and the EU.  Neither of […]

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German Foreign Policy: Bulgaria – An Assisted EU Council Presidency

January 10, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Bulgaria an EU puppet state? The model is familiar: oligarchs running the state, mass poverty, cheap labour for Western Europe. Read here  

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Malta Today: Serbian magnate Dragan Solak outed by MaltaFiles over tax avoidance, is Malta’s newest citizen

January 9, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Oligarchs buy EU citizenship. Not only are investigative journalists blown up in Malta, the government sells citizenship – but only to those with enough money. In this case a prodigious tax avoider. These are apparently […]

Austerity

Larry Elliot: Brexit: why the UK economy hasn’t led to buyer’s remorse

January 9, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Are 51,9 % of Britains neo-fascist berks? Or did those who voted for Brexit have political and economics reasons for doing so? Remainers seem not to be posing this salient question: “Remain’s proponents have spent […]

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João Paulo Batalha – The Great Christmas Heist: Portugal’s political party financing caper reveals a democratic deficit

January 8, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

It seemed a sure thing. A vast majority of political parties in Portugal – from far left to neoliberal right – got together four days before Christmas to reward themselves by inserting lucrative loopholes in […]

Corruption

Investigate Europe: The overlooked past of the ‘next PM of Greece’

January 8, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

After being crushed ba the EU, the European Central Bank, and the IMF and the sellout by Syriza, Greece appears to be returning to its oligarchic legacy. That is not reform, that is reactionary politics. […]

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Mathew D. Rose – Germany and the loss of political trust

January 7, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Just a year ago corporate media was hailing German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the new leader of the Western democracies. That they were grasping at such a decayed straw proves the seriousness of the political […]

Austerity

Fintan O’Toole: Has Ireland had a lost decade?

January 7, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Did Ireland learn anything from its dramatic financial crash 10 years ago? Not much concludes Fintan O’Toole. Read here  

Economics

Daniel Margrain: Socialism for the rich

January 7, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Taxes are there to take from the poor and give to the rich. Neo-liberalism is socialism turned on its head.”This situation is not only unjust, corrupt and undemocratic, it is unsustainable.” Read here  

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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 […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

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Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

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Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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