Finance
Kieren McCarthy: Mark Zuckerberg did everything in his power to avoid Facebook becoming the next MySpace – but forgot one crucial detail…
No one likes a lying asshole Read here
Media
EU politics
Mohamed Elmaazi and Max Blumenthal – Inside the Temple of Covert Propaganda: The Integrity Initiative and the UK’s Scandalous Information War
A good piece of research. It is becoming ever clearer where this is heading. Only an academic could raise the question of legality. First the facts – and we are onlyat the beginning. Read here
EU politics
Daily Record: Institute for Statecraft’s Integrity Initiative
In state and commercial media we are constantly bombarded with reports of purported fake news being launched by the Russians. Here is a clear case, where Britain’s own government spooks are doing exactly this to […]
Media
George Monbiot: How US billionaires are fuelling the hard-right cause in Britain
This is not only US billionaires, but those in Europe as well. The winners of neo-liberalism are pumping money into neo-racist party because democracy and sham democratic liberal parties are no longer working for them. […]
Climate Crisis
Mark Blyth and Carrie Nordlund – “Mark and Carrie”
Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown’s Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and associate director of Brown’s Master of Public Affairs program, share their take on the week’s news. Today’s topics include the California […]
Economics
Aufhebunga Bunga – Numbers Are Too Powerful featuring William Davies
We discuss Nervous States with its author: How has debate became so angery!1!! and fractious? Why don’t we trust institutions any more — or better, which institutions do we still trust and why? How has war […]
Media
Thomas Piketty: « Le Monde » and the billionaires
How to democratise private media? Read here
Climate Crisis
George Monbiot: The Earth is in a death spiral. It will take radical action to save us
Climate breakdown could be rapid and unpredictable. We can no longer tinker around the edges and hope minor changes will avert collapse. Read here
Austerity
Pavlos Roufos – A deep look into Greece’s bottomless debt crisis
Writer Pavlos Roufos reviews eight years of managed disaster for Greece under Europe’s austerity regime – from the roots of the crisis in both internal politics and international finance, to the perverse structure of EU-imposed […]
EU politics
Brian Milstein – The Brexit vote and Trump’s election were decided democratically. So why don’t they feel that way?
This is a brilliant piece. Once democratic institutions break down, so does democracy. The current mainstream discourse concentrates on the latter, ignoring that political parties and the media have abandoned democracy assuming there was no […]