Economics
Germany’s (not so) V-Recovery – November 2020: employment slightly down on the previous month
Despite furlough scheme, hundreds of billions in subventions (mostly for zombie corporations), and other tricks – then this Read here
Media
EU politics
Chris Myant – France: War of Images in Paris
Like the Gilets jaunes the authorities hope to grind this coalition down by police intimidation, scare stories of violence and the appearance of concessions. Chris Myant started as a journalist in 1968 working for the […]
Corruption
Alter-EU: Open letter to Vestager and Breton: Aggressive lobbying by digital platforms must have consequences
In an open letter, ALTER-EU Alliance warned the EU Commissioners Margrethe Vestager and Thierry Breton against the aggressive and opaque lobbying work by Google and other digital companies – and called for more commitment to lobby […]
Fake News
Jonathan Cook – Establishment Journalists are piling on to smear Robert Fisk now he cannot answer back
The problem is that most journalists are propagandists, which they will vehemently deny. They do not ask the most basic question of why billionaires and international corporations are paying them good money to write what […]
Austerity
Branko Milanović – COVID: Willing Meaningful Deaths and Unwilling Meaningless Deaths
When a political class has utterly failed it tries to make a national virtue of this failure or, what is not mentioned here, find scapegoats to blame it on. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised […]
Climate Crisis
Richard Murphy – The climate is not being destroyed by our emails: it’s being destroyed by companies that want to destroy it for profit
As this morning’s Politico email briefing notes: British officials fighting climate change reckon that if each person in the U.K. sent one fewer email a day it would cut carbon emissions by 16,000 tons a […]
Media
Patrick Cockburn – Robert Fisk had True Independence of Mind, Which is Why He Angered Governments and Parts of the Media
We are seeing the loss of some great radical thinkers this year. Now another powerful and courageous voice has gone silent: the journalist Robert Fisk. Patrick Cockburn is the author of War in the Age of […]
Climate Crisis
Jonathan Cook – Biden will fail to bring back ‘normal’ politics. What’s needed now is a populism of the left
Corporate donors desire the kind of neoliberal “normal” that leaves them free to continue making lots more money and ensures the wealth gap grows Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, […]
Fake News
Thomas Klikauer and Nadine Campbell – What’s the Difference Between Donald Trump, Democracy, Equality, and Capitalism?
Trump vs. Democracy Thomas Klikauer teaches MBAs at the Sydney Graduate School of Management, Western Sydney University, Australia. Nadine Campbell is the founder of Abydos Academy Ever since it was invented and written about by […]
EU politics
Toni Strubell, Núria Bassa – Prosecuting Catalans, Honouring Fascists
It is not just that “liberal democrats” are anti-democratic, but they are making themselves ridiculous in their campaign to disguise their anti-democratic fervour. Toni Strubell is a former MP in the Catalan Parliament, journalist, and […]