Climate Crisis
Yanis Varoufakis – What’s wrong with capitalism?
Another interesting interview with Yanis Varoufakis.
Racism
EU politics
Branko Milanović – Living in Own Ideology
We all live in our ideological worlds and imagine that everybody else inhabits the same one too. Until things change. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest book is “Capitalism, […]
EU politics
Valeria Alice Colombo – EU: Black Lives should Matter in the Mediterranean too
Malta’s fatal strategies to counter the growing number of refugees are part of the EU’s systematic racism and violent border regime. Valeria Alice Colombo is an Italian Doctor and Crew member on Open Arms, Alan […]
EU politics
Jonathan Cook – Symbols are Invested with Power. Don’t Dismiss the Importance of Toppling a Statue
Jonathan’s returns to the topic of toppling of statues following his brilliant article “Tearing Down Statues isn’t Vandalism. It’s at the Heart of the Democratic Tradition” (read here). Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist […]
EU politics
Gary Younge – What Black America Means to Europe
From the vantage point of a continent that both resents and covets American power, and is in no position to do anything about it, African-Americans represent to many Europeans a redemptive force: the living proof […]
EU politics
Jonathan Cook – Tearing Down Statues isn’t Vandalism. It’s at the Heart of the Democratic Tradition
There is much discussion in Britain about the removal of a statue of a slave trader standing in the middle of the city of Bristol by the citizens of the city. As always democratic efforts […]
EU politics
Branko Milanović – Germany and The Last European Colonial War?
Branko Milanović looks back at Ian Kershaw’s definitive work “Hitler – Nemesis” Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest book is “Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules […]
Austerity
Mathew D. Rose – Germany: It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again
Following the Merkel/Macron idea of a €500 billion stimulus no one is asking the most important question: how will Germans react? Trouble could well be on its way. Mathew D. Rose is an Investigative Journalist […]
Economics
Juan Laborda – How Southern Europe has Financed Germany and the Netherlands
Southern Europe, since the creation of the euro, has been financing Northern Europe. And they’ll want to stick it to us again using Covid-19 as an excuse. Juan Laborda teaches Financial Economics at the University […]
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis – Oligarchy and Xenophobia: The only Beneficiaries of Greece’s Economic ‘Recovery’
Spring is already in the air across Greece. Even in the bleakest of times, nature’s renaissance renders hope irrepressible. But this one is proving a cruel spring for a people caught up in a decade-old […]