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Euronews – Amazon internet service outage highlights EU’s ‘overwhelming reliance on Big Tech’

October 21, 2025 Ben Wray 0

If a Chinese company had gone down and it had knocked out wide sections of Europe’s internet, a continent-wide emergency would have been announced. But when it’s American big tech that goes wrong, there is […]

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Jonah Schwope, Lena Schröder – Beyond AI Futurism: A Socio-Ecological Vision for AI

October 20, 2025 Ben Wray 0

The AI tech race is well and truly on, and the EU wants to be part of it, but if it only serves the imperatives of capitalism it is going to be worse than useless […]

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Guthrie Scrimgeour – You Aren’t Allowed in These Billionaire Towns

September 15, 2025 Ben Wray 0

‘Welcome to the fully privatised city, where the ultrarich can do as they please — no whining from the rabble permitted.’ In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.

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Caitlin Hoyland – The Enclosure of the Commons and the War Economy: A Feminist and Anti-Colonial Critique

August 5, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Does the concept of the commons hold out hope for a world without war? Caitlin Hoyland is a writer and human rights advocate interning with CODEPINK’s Local Peace Economy program. She has written extensively on conflict, […]

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Emma Belmonte – On Sale for One Euro: Will Albania’s Forests Go Private?

July 1, 2025 Ben Wray 0

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 […]

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Claudio Milano, Antonio Paulo Russo, Marina Novelli – The social movement against ‘touristification’ in Barcelona

June 9, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Social movements against the tourist industry’s takeover of cities in Europe are on the rise. Claudio Milano is a Ramon y Cajal Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of […]

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Corruption

Robin McAlpine – Change the story, change the future

January 10, 2025 Mathew D. Rose 0

The authoritarian neo-liberal political class together with state and corporate media bombard us daily with the same old lie: CAPITALISM IS GOOD FOR US.  It is good for the wealthiest 10%, but it is destructive […]

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Economics

Chris Dillow – Repairing the public sphere

December 29, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Commons has been one of the main victims of Neo-liberalism Chris Dillow is an economics writer at Investors Chronicle. He blogs at Stumbling and Mumbling, and is the author of New Labour and the […]

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Austerity

Richard Murphy – Both the Tories and Labour are pro-market extremists now

April 7, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

With the devolopment of neo-liberalism, ideas like democracy, justice, equality, and community have been shattered. Liberal democracy became authoritarian liberal democracy, which is mostly authoritarian. In some nations, such as Germany, the drift is going […]

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Environment

Riccardo Petrella – Another step by the powerful towards the financialisation of life and the break-up of the state of public commons and universal rights

January 22, 2024 Ben Wray 0

BlackRock has announced the purchase of Global Infrastructures Partners, seizing yet more control of the planet’s natural resources. Riccardo Petrella is an Italian political scientist and economist. He is currently honorary professor at the Catholic […]

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Complicit – Britain’s role in Israel’s genocide by Peter Oborne

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Book Review by Martin Shaw Cross.posted from Declassified UK As British people have turned against Israel’s destruction of Gaza, leading figures in its present and former governing parties still deny that Israel has committed even […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

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Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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