Economics
Daniela Gabor: The Welfare State and Its Discontents
The US is not at the conference, but it’s private equity healthcare model – denounced even by Trump Republicans – is deeply embedded in the Seville Compromiso Read Article HERE
Finance
Economics
Jennifer Kavanagh: Trump’s silence on loss of Ukraine lithium territory speaks volumes
The vaunted minerals deal of just a few months ago is proving as thin as the paper it was written on. Read Article HERE
Economics
Chris Hedges – Profiting From Genocide
The latest United Nations report names hundreds of corporations, banks, technology firms, universities, pension funds and charities that profit from the Israeli occupation and genocide. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign […]
Economics
Ian Proud – Europe’s economy and committment to proxy war in Ukraine are crumbling
Surely it’s time to end Russia sanctions and develop a new plan to bring peace and prosperity to Ukraine? Ian Proud was a member of His Britannic Majesty’s Diplomatic Service from 1999 to 2023. He […]
Economics
The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon
Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]
Climate Crisis
Politico – EU countries blow climate deadline, putting funds for vulnerable people at risk
EU are wrestling with the best way to displace the cost of the green transition onto the poorest, the opposite of a ‘Just Transition’. Read the article HERE.
Environment
Emma Belmonte – On Sale for One Euro: Will Albania’s Forests Go Private?
We are still living in a time where, whatever the question, the answer of politicians is: privatisation. Emma Belmonte is a freelance journalist with a double specialisation covering Europe and Asia. After gaining expertise in […]
Finance
Mattias Schmelzer – Financial Capitalism Is More Dangerous Than Ever Today
‘The crash of 2008 was supposed to augur the end of ultraspeculative financial capitalism. But financial actors have actually gone from strength to strength since then, and fictitious capital is a bigger menace to global […]
Finance
Michael Roberts – Sustainable development and unsustainable debt
The global north is extracting wealth from the global south in the form of debt repayments. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Today, […]
Economics
Michael Hudson, Glenn Diesen – The Strategic Empire: Debt & the Dollar
GLENN DIESEN: Hi everyone and welcome. Today we are joined by Michael Hudson, Professor of Economy, to discuss the strategies for the American Empire. Now when we look at empire, we often tend to look […]