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Politico – Draghi orders Europe’s leaders: Do what I told you
Top technocrat demands all European governments bend to his technocratic will. Read the article HERE.
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Krzysztof Katkowski – In Poland, Austerity Targets Ukrainian Refugees
‘Polish president Karol Nawrocki is shutting off welfare benefits for Ukrainians in Poland. Earlier welcomed as refugees, Ukrainians are now pushed into a role as second-class guestworkers in their host country.’ In Jacobin. Read the […]
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DW News: German welfare state ‘can no longer be financed’ — Merz
The shift from welfare state to warfare state is in full motion. Read the article HERE.
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Mathew D. Rose: The EU – Fascism is coming home
The EU was always about waging a class war against democracy and the working people of Europe Mathew D. Rose is an Investigative Journalist specialised in Organised Political Crime in Germany and an editor of […]
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Michael Hudson, Richard D. Wolff, Nima Alkhorshid – Isolation Economics
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Let me start with a clip from an interview that the New York Times did with Mandy Patinkin, about the situation with Israel and Netanyahu and right-wing parties. DAVID MARCHESE (CLIP 1): Are […]
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Camilla Locatelli and Vanessa Endrejat – EU fiscal rules and the illusion of objectivity
EU fiscal rules are presented as objective but they are in fact extremely political, and are much easier for Germany to get round than weaker EU states. Dr Camilla Locatelli is a Postdoctoral Researcher at […]
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Chris Dillow – Systems, not individuals
Not seeing the political/economic forest for the trees Chris Dillow is an economics writer at Investors Chronicle. He blogs at Stumbling and Mumbling, and is the author of New Labour and the End of Politics. […]
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Ann Pettifor: Balshazzar’s Feast, the US dollar and the ‘Invisible Hand’
Too little regulation, of too little government, of deregulation and lawlessness, amount to “the writing on the wall” for the empire that is the United States of America Read Article HERE
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Aurelien – What We Have.
The new is dying, but the old cannot be reborn. What do we do? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack These essays have developed a reputation in some quarters for being pessimistic. That wasn’t the intention—I just […]
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Patrick Lawrence – Germany in Crisis Part 1: The Lost Man of Europe
The crises that now beset Germany — what they are, the history that produced them, and how Germans think about finding their way forward once again. Patrick Lawrence, a correspondent abroad for many years, chiefly […]