Media
NEON: Press Officer Handbook
This could be very useful as a guide to press work in social movements. Read here
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BRAVE NEW EUROPE is Two!
When we began BRAVE NEW EUROPE two years ago, we knew that the region was heading for a major crisis, economically, politically, and environmentally. The European Union, which has substantially become a neo-liberal project, would […]
Inequality
Heiner Flassbeck – Inequality and Taxes
A proposal in Germany to re-introduce a wealth tax has had the conservatives foaming at the mouth. Even the IMF has criticised the country’s widening inequality gap. Heiner Flassbeck is an economist, as well as […]
Media
Duncan Green – How does journalism drive change?
Digging without fear or favour, dramatising academic research, coining a buzzword that sticks – all ways a journalist can command attention and occasionally make a difference. Duncan Green is Head of Research at Oxfam GB […]
Media
Politics Theory Other – Richard Seymour: The nightmare of social media
Richard Seymour joins me to discuss his new book, The Twittering Machine. The title is taken from Paul Klee’s 1922 painting in which the the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure […]
Economics
Jason Hickel: Progress and its discontents
The world has never been better. From global poverty to inequality between nations, all the indicators are showing progress. This is a comforting narrative – popularized by the likes of Bill Gates and Steven Pinker. […]
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
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 […]