Austerity
George Monbiot – How to really take back control
A wide ranging lecture by George Monbiot that ticks almost all boxes.
Media Influence
Finance
David Beer: The power of our social media data
David Beer looks at various apsects of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and considers some solutions to the problems posed by social media. Read here
Austerity
Simon Wren-Lewis: The Media and Attitudes to Austerity
Why was austerity popular? “Many people would argue that the macroeconomic case for fiscal stimulus was complex, while simple analogies between governments and households were easier to grasp. However I have also argued that the […]
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.
EU politics
The New Pretender – An Introduction to Populism: Interview with Yannis Stavrakakis
Populism has come to mean everything that politically questions the neo-liberal status quo – be it from the left or right. Although the article appears a bit academic at the beginning, it picks up and […]
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 […]