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Kate Mackenzie, Tim Sahay: Carbon Budget versus Fiscal Budget
Mark Blyth: “The continuing idiocy of the EU’s fiscal rules in an era of underinvestment and climate change. Madness on stilts”. Read HERE
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Richard Murphy – There is economic warfare in the air
Coming to the European nation nearest you. Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting, Sheffield University Management School. Chartered accountant. Co-founder of the Green New Deal as well as blogging at Funding the Future […]
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Macro & Cheese – Clara Mattei: The Capital Order: How Economics Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
“This book has detailed a set of influential economic patterns that are pervasive across the globe and that shape our daily lives. Contrary to what the proponents of austerity would have us think, however, the […]
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Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson, Mick Dunford – Neo-Liberal Machine Corners Ukraine, EU
Ukraine’s neoliberalism on steroids, Europe’s economic suicide Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University […]
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Yanis Varoufakis – Greece has to stop being a debt prison
Ahead of the parliamentary elections in Greece on May 21, German newspaper taz interviewed DiEM25 co-founder and MeRA25 general secretary Yanis Varoufakis, where he spoke about our pan-European movement, the critical issues facing Greece, his […]
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Thomas Fazi: The rise of Europe’s military austerity
The EU’s new plan will make 2008 look like child’s play Read HERE
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Andreas Sartzekis: Four years of ultraliberal break-up and attacks on rights in Greece
After much hesitation, Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis junior has set the legislative elections for 21 May. Although the polls show his party, New Democracy (ND), in the lead, the results are uncertain, so great is […]
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Marlon Ettinger: After Raising the Pension Age, Emmanuel Macron Is Planning “Unprecedented Austerity”
‘Emmanuel Macron has pushed through a rise in the pension age despite vast protests. In a televised address on Monday night, he said he’d “heard the anger” in the streets — yet his government’s new […]
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Robert Reich: Bailing Out the Undeserving Rich – Again
Wealth creates power; power creates more wealth. Unattended, this can become a vicious cycle. Robert Reich, is the Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior fellow at the […]
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James K. Galbraith: The Austerity Train Wreck
A skewering of the brutal austerity in Greece which led to the country’s train disaster. Read the article HERE.