Economics
Germany’s (not so) V-Recovery – November 2020: employment slightly down on the previous month
Despite furlough scheme, hundreds of billions in subventions (mostly for zombie corporations), and other tricks – then this Read here
Fake News
Fake News
Jonathan Cook – Establishment Journalists are piling on to smear Robert Fisk now he cannot answer back
The problem is that most journalists are propagandists, which they will vehemently deny. They do not ask the most basic question of why billionaires and international corporations are paying them good money to write what […]
Austerity
Branko Milanović – COVID: Willing Meaningful Deaths and Unwilling Meaningless Deaths
When a political class has utterly failed it tries to make a national virtue of this failure or, what is not mentioned here, find scapegoats to blame it on. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised […]
Climate Crisis
Richard Murphy – The climate is not being destroyed by our emails: it’s being destroyed by companies that want to destroy it for profit
As this morning’s Politico email briefing notes: British officials fighting climate change reckon that if each person in the U.K. sent one fewer email a day it would cut carbon emissions by 16,000 tons a […]
Climate Crisis
Jonathan Cook – Biden will fail to bring back ‘normal’ politics. What’s needed now is a populism of the left
Corporate donors desire the kind of neoliberal “normal” that leaves them free to continue making lots more money and ensures the wealth gap grows Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, […]
Fake News
Thomas Klikauer and Nadine Campbell – What’s the Difference Between Donald Trump, Democracy, Equality, and Capitalism?
Trump vs. Democracy Thomas Klikauer teaches MBAs at the Sydney Graduate School of Management, Western Sydney University, Australia. Nadine Campbell is the founder of Abydos Academy Ever since it was invented and written about by […]
EU politics
Toni Strubell, Núria Bassa – Prosecuting Catalans, Honouring Fascists
It is not just that “liberal democrats” are anti-democratic, but they are making themselves ridiculous in their campaign to disguise their anti-democratic fervour. Toni Strubell is a former MP in the Catalan Parliament, journalist, and […]
EU politics
Toni Strubell i Núria Bassa – La rocambolesca operació “Vólkhov”
Núria Bassa, Toni Strubell Ajuda Brave New Europe – el digital antifeixista alemany en anglès – a informar de la lluita per l’autodeterminació de Catalunya i Escòcia i a denunciar la constant vulneració de drets […]
Economics
Nick Shaxson – How GDP Masks the Finance Curse
As we keep writing, GDP is a tool for deception rather than a true measurement of a society’s well-being and its economy. Nick Shaxson is an Investigative Journalist on the staff of Tax Justice Network. […]
Climate Crisis
Investigate Europe: The truth behind the EU’s National Energy and Climate Plans
A litany of evasions, missed deadlines, questionable claims and ignorance…real and feigned. Some member states even openly state that they do not plan to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. Read here