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Tax Justice Network – Taxcast April 2018

April 25, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

In this month’s Taxcast: Tax justice, women and UN human rights conventions: how we may be beginning to hold governments to account. Also: we discuss scandal-hit Facebook’s checks on whether overseas influencers are funding political […]

Finance

Mail Online: Several Amazon workers ‘have considered suicide since joining the company’, poll reveals while warehouse staff claim they have urinated into bottles because they’re afraid of ‘time-wasting’

April 15, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Manchester Capitalism is returning to Britain after being resurrected in the United States Read here  

Economics

Bill Mitchell: The Left propaganda that the state is powerless – continues

April 10, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Bill Mitchell takes a recent article in The Guardian, Rana Dasgupta – The demise of the nation state, to debunk the leftist denigration of the national state as an essential instrument in pushing back neo-liberalism. […]

Finance

Thomas Frank: Trump’s enemy is not your friend: why we shouldn’t defend Amazon

April 7, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Substitute Brexit and Remain and you have the same story. We let ourselves for emotional reasons and political laziness accept binary decisions. The world is not black and white or Manichean as the intellectuals call […]

Finance

The Nation: Amazon Doesn’t Just Want to Dominate the Market—It Wants to Become the Market

April 5, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is the story of how a monopoly destroys the free market, affecting all of us. Read here  

Finance

David Beer: The power of our social media data

April 4, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

David Beer looks at various apsects of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and considers some solutions to the problems posed by social media. Read here  

Finance

Reuters: KPMG hit by Hong Kong High Court in $400 million China Medical fraud

March 30, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Odd, not much happens to the Big 4 accounting firms in Europe. Read here

EU politics

Mike Gold: Neo-Liberalism – Invisible Fascism?

March 28, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

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  

Corruption

Larry Elliot: Is it time to break up the tech giants such as Facebook?

March 27, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The United States has been promoting monopolies for decades. This has been supported by a perversion of free market economics: monopolies provide cheaper prices and thus benefit consumers. Maybe at the till, but what about […]

Finance

Bella Caledonia: In Defence of Social Media

March 25, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

“At what point did politics move from being a competing narrative of possible futures and become instead the wasteland of our sub-conscious fears exploited for a lucrative buck by Etonian snake-oil salesmen?” Read here  

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A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges

May 5, 2025 0

Book Review by Chris Green It provides a modicum of relief to one’s mental health to turn from Nicholas Kristof’s lame bothsidesism and Bernie Sanders’s blather about Israel’s “right to defend itself” to reading Chris […]

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Abundance – How We Build a Better Future by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

April 21, 2025 0

Book Review by Michael Roberts Abundance is a new book that has been attracting attention and debate among mainstream economists and politicians.  It aims to explain to Democrat members in the US why their party […]

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