Media
Alan Macleod – Documents Show Bill Gates Has Given $319 Million to Media Outlets
The list of recipients says it all. Read here
Media
Austerity
Pingbacks and Climate Crisis
In economics the trickle down theory has been debunked as an ideological instrument in the class war from above. In education and media however there exists another sort of trickle down that does function: ideas. […]
Media
60 Years Private Eye – Ian Hislop
Editor of Private Eye Ian Hislop sat down with JOE on the magazine’s 60th birthday to discuss Laura Kuenssberg, social media anonymity, and being sued.
Fake News
Jonathan Cook – The tribal left’s a mirror image of the tribal right
An excellent, thoughtful article on how we are starting to think exactly like those we most abhor Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, since 2001 Cross-posted from Jonathan Cook’s website […]
Climate Crisis
Wolfgang Knorr – Why COP26 really was all blah, blah, blah
An epilogue to the COP26 show Wolfgang Knorr is a Senior Research Scientist for Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science at Lund University Key insights can sometimes come from unexpected sources. In 2006, nobody had heard […]
EU politics
Human Rights Watch: Greece: Alleged ‘Fake News’ Made a Crime
New Law Could Lead to Journalists Being Jailed So this is how the EU will deal with its failures in the future. Sounds rather totalitarian. Read here
Corruption
Radio Free Europe: Ukraine’s Top English-Language Newspaper Suddenly Shut Down Amid Owner-Staff Dispute
Ukraine, like Afghanistan, is a festering sore, which the West keeps pouring billions into only to see increasing power of the oligarchy and cleptocracy Read here
Climate Crisis
George Monbiot – Surface Tension
Our survival depends on piercing the glassy surface of distraction, and ceasing to obey. Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Corporate welfare abounds
A couple of examples of why corporations can do what they want. Read here
Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory – COP26: the biggest finance greenwash event in history
Some of the worst financiers of the worst polluters helped write the script – and more, they will implement the decisions after the summit in Glasgow. Read here