Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – Capitalism in Crisis
What comes next? Yanis Varoufakis has some good ideas By the way, this is followed by Yanis’s first speech in Greece since MeRA25’s entry into Greece’s Parliament. Also interesting.
Media Influence
Media
Fintan O’Toole: Trial runs for fascism are in full flow
Babies in cages were no ‘mistake’ by Trump but test-marketing for barbarism. Read here
Corruption
David Jiménez – Breaking the Silence About Corruption in Spain’s Press
After 18 years as a war reporter and correspondent, David Jiménez was appointed editor-in-chief of El Mundo, one of Spain’s biggest dailies, at the end of his Nieman fellowship at Harvard in 2015. What seemed […]
Austerity
Jonathan Cook – Guilt of Anti-Semitism Now Needs No Evidence
Forget Brexit, if you really want to understand what is currently happening in British politics, no one explains it better than Jonathan Cook. And do not be surprised it you find yourself repeatedly muttering “This […]
Austerity
Jonathan Cook – Britain: The Plot to Keep Jeremy Corbyn Out of Power
This may be long, but is simply an excellent political analysis. What is happening with Jeremy Corbyn is how a progressive candidate is attacked by mainstream media trying to discredit his reputation so that they […]
EU politics
James Hodgson – Brexit as Fugitive Democracy
Some of you may have noticed that for months now we rarely post anything concerning Brexit – pro or con. The reason was that rarely did any new arguments appear. Regardless of Brexit, James Hodgson’s […]
EU politics
Harald Schumann – Legislation from closed chambers – how (un)democratic is the EU?
The leaders of the European Union guide democracy in name only. In practice, they constantly override it and violate fundamental democratic norms on a grand scale. The anti-democratic practices in the Council of the EU, […]
Finance
Chris Hughes: It’s Time to Break Up Facebook
A co-founder of facebook calls for it being broken up. Read here
EU politics
Barry Richards – Calling Brexit a national ‘humiliation’ fuels division
As most Britons have lost the last remnants of political equanimity due to Brexit and we are currently experiencing a massive surge of UK readers, we thought we would post this article. It could well […]
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