EU politics
Jamie Maxwell: Post-Sturgeon
Scottish nationalism has hit a wall. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
EU politics
Thomas Simon Mattia: Why Were Italians Swayed to the Right by the Brothers of Italy?
Italy didn’t vote for fascism, they voted for the far-right because they offered a message of security, whereas the left failed to offer a credible answer to the key concerns of Italians Cross-posted from Green […]
EU politics
EU Observer: EU leadership rehash old ideas to save migrant lives at sea
EU leadership on Wednesday (23 November) rehashed decade-old statements on the importance of saving lives in the Mediterranean Sea. Read Here Malta refused to cooperate with the Ocean Viking, during a rescue operation involving disabled […]
Corruption
Transparency International: EU Court of Justice delivers blow to beneficial ownership transparency
The anti-democratic, reactionary bulwark of the EU, the European Court of Justice, has set back the fight against cross-border corruption by years Read Here
National Politics
Noam Chomsky – US Sanctions on Iran Don’t Support the Protests, They Deepen Suffering
Is the uprising in Iran a revolution in the making? Noam Chomsky sheds insight on this question Noam Chomsky is a linguist, philosopher, and political activist. He is the laureate professor of linguistics at the […]
Aviation
Alex Chapman – The environment is paying the price for bad economic advice
Economic consultants are like politicians: you get the best that money can buy. Alex Chapman is Senior Researcher at the New Economics Foundation Cross-posted from the NEF website Image: iStock/NeonJellyFish Back in the 1940s US […]
Climate Crisis
Client Earth: European Parliament resolution ‘final nail in the coffin’ for Energy Charter Treaty
The newest from Europe’s Disneyland parliament. Now that Germany had indicated that it will withdraw from the ECT this is permitted, although one never knows what the EU Commission might get up to. Read Here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Champagne socialists in the banking sector reaping millions from public money
The rate hikes now being implemented by most central banks are not just allowing the commercial banks to widen spreads between deposit and lending rates which will generate significant windfall profits for the banks and […]
EU politics
Jonathan Cook – Why German state racism is now directed at the Palestinians
The Holocaust serves, paradoxically, as an alibi for Europeans to assume they are morally superior to others, as the cancellation of an arts prize to Caryl Churchill shows Jonathan Cook is the the author of three books […]
EU politics
Núria Bassa, Toni Strubell – Spain’s suspect redefinition of sedition
A surreptitious ploy to jail Puigdemont, perchance? Toni Strubell is a former MP in the Catalan Parliament, journalist, and author of What Catalans Want Núria Bassa Camps is a Catalan writer and photographer Llegeix en […]