Corruption
Follow the Money – Brussels admits EU funds flowed to spyware firms after FTM probe
The EU has been directly financing commercial spyware companies in the EU linked to nefarious practices. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Economics
Ian Proud – Stealing $140 billion in Russian assets won’t change the outcome of the war in Ukraine
Better for EU leaders to accept this now although, of course, they won’t. Ian Proud was a member of His Britannic Majesty’s Diplomatic Service from 1999 to 2023. He served as the Economic Counsellor at […]
Austerity
Richard Murphy – The growth delusion
Martin Wolf of the FT said this week that only economic growth can save democracy. Yet his economics serves only the wealthy. When workers are sacrificed, rents soar, and insecurity spreads, as he demands so […]
Economics
Branko Milanović – “J’avais toujours raison”
A review of Raymond Aron’s “Memoires” Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His new book, The Visions of inequality, was published October 10, 2023. Cross-posed from Branko Milanović’s blog Global Inequality and More 3.0 […]
Economics
Economics
Richard D. Wolff, Michael Hudson, Nima Alkhorshid – From Safe Haven to Seizure Risk
The West’s policy of financial rape and pillage throughout the world NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, October 23rd, 2025, and our dear friends, Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff, are back with us. Welcome […]
Geopolitics
Complicit – Britain’s role in Israel’s genocide by Peter Oborne
Book Review by Martin Shaw Cross.posted from Declassified UK As British people have turned against Israel’s destruction of Gaza, leading figures in its present and former governing parties still deny that Israel has committed even […]
Economics
Alastair Crooke – The world financial and geo-political framework at a time of imminent disorder
Putin remains focussed on achieving a new Europe-wide security architecture Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Strategic Culture online journal Trump’s attempt to […]
Economics
Aurelien – At Least They’re Not Talking
Some problems have no solution. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: UNHCR I don’t follow the traditional media’s coverage of the war in Ukraine very much—I leave that to those with […]
Corruption
Ivor Chipkin, Jelena Vidojević – Elite Populism and the Ideology of State Capture: South Africa’s Warning for the United States and other Democracies
Authoritarian tendencies and movements all over the world now speak the language of decolonial populism Ivor Chipkin is at the New South Institute and the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) Jelena Vidojević is Head […]