Economics
Wolfgang Münchau: So much for the Brexit scare stories
Apart from a short-lived disruption of trade flows Brexit has been a macroeconomic non-event. Read here
Fake News
Austerity
Post Growth: Life after Capitalism by Tim Jackson
Book Review by Mathew D. Rose On Monday, 12 April at 8pm CET, BRAVE NEW EUROPE will be presenting a Webinar with Tim Jackson about his book Post Growth. There will be a simultaneous Translation […]
Austerity
Tonia Mastrobuoni – Interview with Philipp Heimberger: Why I launched the Campaign Against Italy Nonsense
Public discourse about Italy is very distorted, and we should thrive to change it Tonia Mastrobouni is the Berlin correspondent, La Repubblica The original article in Italian in La Repubblica is here (paywall) Tonia Mastrobuoni […]
Austerity
Philipp Heimberger – Fiscal austerity and the rise of the Nazis
How Germans continue to misremember the history of the Weimar Republic Philipp Heimberger is Economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) Cross-posted from Philipp’s blog An economic history paper recently published in […]
Climate Crisis
Oliver Miltenberger, Matthew D. Potts – Why corporate climate pledges of ‘net-zero’ emissions should trigger a healthy dose of scepticism
Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Some companies’ net-zero plans include continuing to emit climate-warming greenhouse gases for decades. Oliver Miltenberger, The University of Melbourne and Matthew D. Potts, University of California, Berkeley Hundreds of companies, including major […]
Corruption
Double Down News: Peter Jukes – The Weaponisation of Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories
A good summing up of the lodestar of journalism – and for any political thinking – follow the money. The Weaponisation of Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories @peterjukes pic.twitter.com/HkQDXWmb1i — Double Down News (@DoubleDownNews) September 8, […]
EU politics
David Miller – We must resist Israel’s war on British universities
In the recent past we have seen one upstanding leftist with a distinguished history of fighting racism, fascism, yes even anti-Semitism being attacked as anti-Semitic, such as Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Loach, and the Jewish poet […]
Fake News
James Foley – Anti-Racists for Apartheid?
Sadly, our planet is plagued by “humanitarian” disasters. But Palestinians specifically deserve our solidarity because here our complicity is larger, historically but most especially today. And thus our political agency is more meaningful and potentially […]
Economics
Norbert Häring – Corona as opportunity for a restart: “Multilateralism for the masses” by Merkel, Macron, von der Leyen and Guterres
It’s the Great Neo-liberal Utopia Show! Norbert Häring is a financial journalist at the German daily business newspaper Handelsblatt, blogger, and an award-winning author of popular books on economics and finance. You can read the original […]
Fake News
William Callison, Quinn Slobodian – Coronapolitics from the Reichstag to the Capitol
Defying conventional political labels and capitalizing on widespread distrust, a range of new movements share the conviction that all power is conspiracy. Read here