Finance
Kieren McCarthy: Mark Zuckerberg did everything in his power to avoid Facebook becoming the next MySpace – but forgot one crucial detail…
No one likes a lying asshole Read here
Media Influence
EU politics
Mohamed Elmaazi and Max Blumenthal – Inside the Temple of Covert Propaganda: The Integrity Initiative and the UK’s Scandalous Information War
A good piece of research. It is becoming ever clearer where this is heading. Only an academic could raise the question of legality. First the facts – and we are onlyat the beginning. Read here
EU politics
Daily Record: Institute for Statecraft’s Integrity Initiative
In state and commercial media we are constantly bombarded with reports of purported fake news being launched by the Russians. Here is a clear case, where Britain’s own government spooks are doing exactly this to […]
Media
George Monbiot: How US billionaires are fuelling the hard-right cause in Britain
This is not only US billionaires, but those in Europe as well. The winners of neo-liberalism are pumping money into neo-racist party because democracy and sham democratic liberal parties are no longer working for them. […]
Economics
Aufhebunga Bunga – Numbers Are Too Powerful featuring William Davies
We discuss Nervous States with its author: How has debate became so angery!1!! and fractious? Why don’t we trust institutions any more — or better, which institutions do we still trust and why? How has war […]
Austerity
Pavlos Roufos – A deep look into Greece’s bottomless debt crisis
Writer Pavlos Roufos reviews eight years of managed disaster for Greece under Europe’s austerity regime – from the roots of the crisis in both internal politics and international finance, to the perverse structure of EU-imposed […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck – Why interest rates are low and Italy needs our support
The political causes of ultra low interest rates in Europe is still being ignored. While those who fail to comprehend that we have to support Italy are promoting nationalism there and in Germany. Heiner Flassbeck […]
Economics
Politics Theory Other – Will Davies on ‘Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World’
Will Davies joins me to discuss his new book, ‘Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World’. We spoke about the declining public trust in experts, the blurring of the distinctions between war and peace, […]
Economics
James Heckman and Sidharth Moktan – The Tyranny of the Top Five Economic Journals
Getting published in a top five economics journal is a near-requirement for tenure. But it’s a poor measure of research quality within a system that punishes creativity. James Heckman it the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University […]
EU politics
Noam Chomsky, Yanis Varoufakis, Ken Loach, Brian Eno, Des Freedman, Justin Schlosberg and 21 others: Flawed reporting on antisemitism claims against the Labour party
This is a brilliant example of how corporate media function s in order to destroy any attempts at rolling back neo-liberalism. The coverage was an asbolute disgrace. Read here