EU politics
Save Your iInternet: Filternet
Explains the new internet law, Article 13. that corporate media is trying to purchase at the EU. Informative , yet with humour and charm – takes a moment to get going. The European Union […]
Media
Fake News
Caitlin Johnstone: Mass Media Is The Enemy Of The People Like The Cage Is The Enemy Of The Bird
There is not much to say about this piece. It speaks so powerfully for itself. Read here
Corruption
The Political Economy of Italy’s Decline by Andrea Lorenzo Capussela
Book review by Mathew D. Rose Andrea Capussela has a tale to tell – and he does it well. This book could not have appeared at a more opportune moment as it seeks to illuminate […]
EU politics
The Real News – Is Jeremy Corbyn’s “anti-Semitism Crisis” a Smear Campaign? (Pt. 1/2)
“What is happening now is exactly what was happening in Nazi Germany in the 1930s”. No, not the National Front, but the Labour Party. Really? Beside corporate Media and supporters of Israel, no one seems […]
Climate Crisis
Simon Wren-Lewis: How BBC balance and bad think tanks discourage evidence based policy
The United Kingdom is waking up to a serious problem: Not only are their media hopelessly biased in its support of reactionary politics, but they are using think tanks that are being paid by the […]
Media
Tom Mills – We need Democratic Media, not State Media
Europe needs democratic media, not state media. The case made by Tom Mills is relevant for most state media in Europe. State media has become synonymous with established political parties and business interests, alienated, when […]
Fake News
James Ball: It’s time to ditch the term ‘fake news’
It is amazing how quickly terms such as populism and fake news are suddenly omnipresent, yet undefinable because they are use in contradictory connotations: Trump and Sanders are labelled populists, but that is probably the […]
Austerity
John Weeks – Free markets and the decline of democracy
What is the source of the 21st century tendency to authoritarianism? The central purpose of neoliberal re-regulation is to remove economic policy from control by representative democracy. John Weeks is Professor Emeritus at SOAS, University of […]
EU politics
Barry Lynn: Google and Facebook are strangling the free press to death. Democracy is the loser
As gatekeepers to the news, Google and Facebook pose dangers to even the most successful outlets. Legislators need to speed the process of bringing them to heel Read here
Climate Crisis
Business Green: Is climate change causing the heat wave? To all intents and purposes, yes
Climate attribution is complicated, but an abundance of caution that is not applied to any other field is serving to underplay the huge risks presented by climate change Read here