Media
Yanis Varoufakis and Phillip Adams – On Julian Assange’s arrest & extradition to the US
Yanis Varoufakis addresses many of the issues concerning Julian Assange Listen here
Media Influence
Media
Jonathan Cook – The 7 years of lies about Assange won’t stop now
It took us a long while to find an adequate article concerning the outrage that occurred yesterday in London. This piece by Jonathan Cook brought the most important strands together. Thus we selected this article […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: IMF changes tune on industry policy – shamelessly – Part 1
First it was capital controls (no one talks about the success of Iceland with this policy) that the IMF revised. Now it is what the IMF refers to as “The policy that shall not be […]
Corruption
Austerity
Renegade Inc: Myth Busting the European Dream featuring Mathew D. Rose
Politically you can ignore some of the people some of the time…but you can’t ignore all the people all of the time. For many years European citizens have intuitively opposed unaccountability, a lack of political […]
EU politics
Sean Bell – There are lessons from the American Left for Labour’s antisemitism controversies
Without a doubt, Common Space is currently one of the most interesting political websites in Europe. The discussion around Scottish independence has served as a catalyst by which a broad range of issues are being […]
Climate Change
Jason Hickel: Corporate Media Attacks on Corbyn & AOC Resemble State of Permanent Coup!
Russia Today speaks to Dr Jason Hickel, who serves on the Labour Party task force on international development, on inequality, a Green New Deal, his new book ‘The Divide’, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jeremy Corbyn and […]
Media
Nervous States: How feeling took over the world by William Davies
Book Review by David Shirreff Perhaps this book should be called The Theory of Everything, though that title has already been used for a movie about Stephen Hawking, the theoretical physicist and expert on black […]
EU politics
Peter Beinart: Debunking the myth that anti-Zionism is antisemitic
All over the world, it is an alarming time to be Jewish – but conflating anti-Zionism with Jew-hatred is a tragic mistake Read here
Climate Change
Richard Murphy – The Washington Post is leading the right wing backlash to the Green New Deal, and have got almost everything wrong
Here they come again, neo-liberal corporate and state media in their newest offensive against anything progressive. The new target is the Green New Deal. Of course – as usual – the market will take care […]