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 […]
Monopolies
Finance
Norbert Häring – Brave New Money: PayPal, WeChat, Amazon Go – A Totalitarian World Currency in the Making
My new book in German with the translated title: “Brave New Money: PayPal, WeChat, Amazon Go – A Totalitarian World Currency in the Making” has just been published by Campus. I have translated the “Introduction […]
Economics
Matthew Yglesias: Elizabeth Warren has a plan to save capitalism
Elizabeth Warren is unveiling a bill to make corporate governance great again. Read here
Economics
Richard Murphy: CEOs are rigging markets to increase their pay and then sponsor free market mythology to justify their abuse
Rent is a redistribution of resources from those without power to those with it. Read here
Deregulation
Lucas S. Ferro, Sergi Cutillas , Toni Pérez – The taxi strike in Barcelona: the right to work versus the fake sharing economy
Taxi drivers in Madrid and Barcelona temporarily terminated their strike Wednesday night. The decision was made following an emergency meeting between national and regional authorities concerning Über and Cabify, which the taxi sectors views as […]
EU politics
BBC: UK Hauliers in compensation claim for overpriced trucks
We have repeatedly referred to the cartels – An association of companies obtaining the total control over a market. These are nothing less than trans-European monopolies – endemic to the EU. The interesting aspect of […]
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
Austerity
Noam Chomsky: The Resurgence of Political Authoritarianism
Noam Chomsky on a number of topics concerning the inexorable rise of authoritarianism worldwide. Read here
Austerity
Mathew D. Rose – How the EU has become an incubator for fascism
What no one is considering is that the resurrection of fascism in the EU could well be a logical consequence of the EU’s policies of the past decades, actually stabilising the European Union and allowing […]