EU politics
Bloomberg: Julian Assange Tells Court He Won’t ‘Surrender to America’
The WikiLeaks founder says he does not wish to surrender to extradition for doing ‘journalism that has won many awards’. Read here
Media
Finance
Lynn Parramore – The Antitrust Case Against Facebook You Need to Know About
Former ad tech entrepreneur and advertising executive Dina Srinivasan is author of a well-researched study in the Berkeley Business Law Journal laying out the case that social network giant Facebook has now entered America’s annals […]
Media Concentration
Dina Srinivasan – Can Antitrust Law Rein in Facebook’s Data-Mining Profit Machine?
Facebook engaged in an elaborate bait and switch on user data: privacy disappeared along with its competitors. Laws governing competition could change that. Dina Srinavasan is a former technology entrepreneur Cross-posted from The Institute for […]
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
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 Crisis
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 […]