Austerity
Bill Mitchell – Data suggests a unilateral Greek exit would have been much better than their colonial future under the Troika
The damage done to Greece will not disappear – at least not for decades. Read here
EU politics
EU politics
HuffPost: TfL Denies Uber’s London Licence After Finding 14,000 Trips Made By Wrong Drivers
Uber and other tech companies do not care about laws, just profits. Read here
Economics
Heather Connolly – British University Strikes: Why They’re Happening and What You Need to Know
In the UK the second strike within two years by academics and staff at 60 universities begins. They are opposing the financialisation of higher education. We are very proud that a number of our authors […]
Corruption
Tristan Guerra, Chloé Alexandre, Frédéric Gonthier – The Yellow Vests: An Economic Populism that is Neither Left nor Right-Wing
C’est l’économie, imbécile. The French Yellow Vests recently celebrated their first birthday, yet there remain many uncertainties about how to interpret the movement. Drawing on an online survey of 5,000 participants, Tristan Guerra, Chloé Alexandre […]
EU politics
Ben Wray: Spain – The Scotland Papers
Ben Wray reports for Bella Caledonia from Spain where the leaked ‘Scotland Papers’ expose a bizarre set of relations between Scotland and Spain, and examples of paranoia, bullying and racism in the Spanish Foreign Ministry. […]
Austerity
Robin McAlpine: Stop Feigning Confusion at Public Ownership; it’s not Complicated
When one reads an article like this, it becomes painfully clear how bankrupt Europe’s political class is. While politicians pretend they are the high priests of complicated truths, which we daily realise are lies, we […]
EU politics
Albert Noguera – Spain: The Coalition Government as a Prelude to Disaster
A couple of days ago we posted a piece by Stuart Medina Miltimore concerning the impending coalition between the Spanish Social Democrats (PSOE) and Podemos HERE. Here another take on this issue Albert Noguera is […]
Climate Crisis
Transport & Environment – Crunch Time for Europe’s List of True ‘Green’ Businesses
This is an extremely critical issue. The financial industry is having difficulty finding investments that bring a high profit. They are trying to manipulate the EU rules as to what is a “Green Investment”, which […]
Corruption
Japan Times: Malta mogul arrested on yacht in journalist assassination case
In the end most members of the EU political elite turn out to be nothing less than mafia. Just give it time and some serious research, it always comes out. Read here
Economics
Stuart Medina Miltimore – Spain: Pablo Iglesias Enters into a Faustian Bargain
Podemos has persistently lost political ground over the years. It has tried to form a government with the social democratic PSOE, but this has not succeeded in the past. Following the recent general election the […]