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Prem Sikka: Carillion collapse: here’s how much corporate undertakers could make from the liquidation

March 20, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

First you earn millions for poorly advising or auditing a company, then you make hundreds of millions after it has gone bankrupt. The pension fund was not covered and thousands are unemployed as a result. […]

Austerity

Bernie Sanders: The corporate media ignores the rise of oligarchy. The rest of us shouldn’t

March 16, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

 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  

Finance

Fuck Off Google: Don’t let Google take over Berlin!

March 15, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Google plans to implant a “Google Campus” in Kreuzberg, Berlin. We, as a decentralized network of people are committed to not letting our beloved city be taken over by these tax-evading criminals who are building […]

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d@w Exclusive: Michael Hudson on Junk Economics update 2017

March 14, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

An excellent interview with Michael Hudson. The interview starts with Trump, but quickly moves on.  

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The Finance Curse – Professor Gerald Epstein

March 7, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Dr. Gerald Epstein is Professor of Economics and founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Among his many excellent works he and Juan Antonio Montecino calculated the […]

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Corporate Europe Observatory – What the Monsanto Papers tell us about corporate science

March 6, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Monsanto Papers are a treasure trove of internal documents slowly released since March 2017 as part of a US lawsuit by cancer victims against Monsanto over its ubiquitous herbicide, glyphosate. They tell a lot […]

Economics

Tim Wu: The Tyranny of Convenience

March 5, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Our taste for convenience begets more convenience, through a combination of the economics of scale and the power of habit. The easier it is to use Amazon, the more powerful Amazon becomes — and thus […]

EU politics

Oliver Norgrove: Burst pipes: Why water privatisation failed

March 5, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Privatisation in Britain has ended ih high prices, poor service, and the infrastructure in tatters. Yet the Conservative Party still sees it as a great British success. Read here  

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EU politics

Renegade Inc – The great British train robbery

March 4, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The former British Prime Minister and devout neoliberal, Margaret Thatcher was in favour of mass privatisation but even she claimed that privatising the British Rail system was ‘a privatisation too far’, but this didn’t stop […]

Climate Crisis

Aditya Chakrabortty: The small town that started a community revolution across Europe

February 28, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Not only did the little community of Wolfhagen in Germany take over its electricity grid from the multi-national E.ON, but in the meantime has gone over to renewable energy. All of this in the hands […]

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The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform by Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian

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Book Review by Branko Milanović Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian’s The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform is a book about how China transformed itself between the Great Leap Forward and the early […]

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Germany’s Jewish Problem: Genocides Past and Present by Wieland Hoban

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Reviewed by Raymond Deane On 30 January, Uwe Becker – the so-called commissioner for Jewish life and the fight against anti-Semitism in the German state of Hesse – demanded that the organization Jewish Voice for […]

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