Austerity
George Monbiot – How to really take back control
A wide ranging lecture by George Monbiot that ticks almost all boxes.
Globalisation
Economics
Dani Rodrik: “Globalization Has Contributed to Tearing Societies Apart”
In an interview with ProMarket, Harvard economist Dani Rodrik explained where globalization went wrong, how trade agreements serve rent-seeking by politically well-connected firms, and why the only solution to the rise of political populism is […]
Austerity
Shlomo Ben-Ami: The Threat to Western Democracy Starts at Home
Ben-Ami picks up a number of threads an weaves them together skilfully. These are the usual distractions by political elites enforcing neo-liberalism as they notice that they are losing power. We are seeing the same […]
EU politics
Mike Gold: Neo-Liberalism – Invisible Fascism?
The Italian fascist leader Mussolini claimed: “Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” Thus this article makes a number of good points. Read here
EU politics
German Foreign Policy: United Against Beijing
Germany has bee one of the great profiteers of the opening of the chinese economy. Worries are starting to grow as China expands its economic and political influence. Read here
Economics
John Rapley – Democracy Was Never All It Was Cut Out to Be Anyhow
Has democracy simply become a ploy to protect the haves from the increasingly have-nots. If so, its best sell by date seems to be approaching. John Rapley is a political economist and author of ‘Twilight […]
Deregulation
Heikki Patomäki – The Finnish University Strike 2018: A New Moment in the Process of Turning Universities into Business Corporations
BRAVE NEW EUROPE would like to thank Heikki for taking the time to write this upon our request. We find it an outstanding analysis, listing the conflicts confronting universities not only Finland, but all over […]
Austerity
Bernie Sanders: The corporate media ignores the rise of oligarchy. The rest of us shouldn’t
The main difference between the media in the United States and the EU is that here two journalists who tried to report the non-corporate-media side of the story were recently murdered. Read here
Austerity
Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World by William Mitchell and Thomas Fazi
Book review by Mathew D. Rose According to Bill Mitchell the book’s original title was “Reclaiming the Nation State”. The progressive publisher wanted the word nation removed. The term “Nation State”, claimed the publisher, was […]
Austerity
Thomas Piketty: Towards a Union in the Union
“The threat to the world today is not a trade war but a social war, conducted by means of aggressive policies of fiscal dumping which benefit the wealthiest and the most mobile.” Read here