Economics
Prem Sikka: Elites will use this crisis to reshape the state. We have to push back
We have the money to build a better society after this crisis. But corporations and the right are already undermining our welfare. Read here
Inequality
Climate Crisis
Nick Shaxson: Finance Curse and the Green New Deal
The greatest threat to the Green New Deal lies in the financial sector, which aims to shift the costs of climate change onto society’s shoulders while taking large profits for itself. Nick Shaxson is an […]
Corruption
Chris Hedges: The Treason of the Ruling Class
They have destroyed our capitalist democracy and replaced it with a mafia state. Read here
Economics
Renegade Inc. – Lawrence Wilkerson: Where from here…..blueprint or scramble
Royal Dutch Shell has two scenarios posited over the next 50 years. One is called Blueprint – based on global collaboration to tackle the big issues – and the other is called Scramble. Scramble is […]
Economics
Jonathan Cook – As US Protests Show, the Challenge is how to Rise Above the Violence Inherent in State Power
A simple, straightforward, but brilliant analysis. Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, since 2001 Cross-posted from Jonathan’s website Here is one thing I can write with an unusual degree of […]
Climate Crisis
Upstream Podcast: Jason Hickel on International Development and Post-capitalism
Jason Hickel on global inequality, the climate crisis, and how degrowth is ultimately a call for decolonization… plus a critique of the coloniality of Nick Kristof’s thought. Listen here
Climate Crisis
Steve Keen – The Macroeconomics of Degrowth: Can Planned Economic Contraction be Stable?
Modelling the imperative of degrowth: to bring energy demand down to the point where we can eliminate carbon emissions by 2030, in a safe and just way. At first glance the article may appear technical […]
Climate Crisis
Ben Wray – ‘Act like a tourist’, or build community wealth?
You may be asking why we are posting an article about Edinburgh? Because it is paradigmatic for the financialisation of most large cities in Europe: Venice, Prague, Barcelona, London, etc. and the destructive side of […]
Inequality
Jonathan Cook – Why the Left’s Case for Lesser Evil Sounds Hollow
A fascinating read. Relevant for leftists in Europe who are realising that their political parties are neo-liberals in the service of the corrupt, anti-democratic oligarchy. Just look at Labour in the UK, the Social Democrats […]
Austerity
News Click: Yanis Varoufakis – European Oligarchy Has Banned Transfer of Wealth to Poor
Yanis Varoufakis on the current economic situation in the EU.