Austerity
George Monbiot – How to really take back control
A wide ranging lecture by George Monbiot that ticks almost all boxes.
Media Concentration
Finance
Bella Caledonia: In Defence of Social Media
“At what point did politics move from being a competing narrative of possible futures and become instead the wasteland of our sub-conscious fears exploited for a lucrative buck by Etonian snake-oil salesmen?” Read here
Austerity
Bernie Sanders: The corporate media ignores the rise of oligarchy. The rest of us shouldn’t
The main difference between the media in the United States and the EU is that here two journalists who tried to report the non-corporate-media side of the story were recently murdered. Read here
Corruption
d@w Exclusive: Michael Hudson on Junk Economics update 2017
An excellent interview with Michael Hudson. The interview starts with Trump, but quickly moves on.
Fake News
Chris Dillow: Free speech after Mill
Is free speech a remnant of the past? Chris Dillow may be confusing free speech with debate and discussion, but there are a number of interesting thoughts in this article, thus well worth reading. Read […]
EU politics
Renegade Inc – Poverty porn: divide, fool, rule
It was Malcolm X who famously stated that if you’re not careful the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. Watch here […]
Fake News
The Guardian: Jeremy Corbyn rejects spy ‘smears’ and takes on press critics
We shall have to get used to this. As the political parties enforcing neo-liberal policies increasingly lose their credibility, corporate media will try to save the day, resorting to disinformation. This is one of the […]
EU politics
Renegade Inc – Digital is killing democracy: André Krouwel
A big assumption we make when talking about the internet and social media is that it is a power for good and enhances democracy. But what if this assumption is out of date and instead […]
Economics
Kevin Carty: Tech giants are the robber barons of our time
Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon. Everyone uses them. Many like them. They are monopolies – and destructive ones at that. Read here