Economics
Mark Curtis: UK sees privatisation ‘opportunities’ in Ukraine war
British aid is being used to open up Ukraine’s wrecked economy to foreign investors and enhance trade with the UK. Read HERE
Neo-Liberalism in the EU
Climate Crisis
Nina-Miholjcic Ivkovic – The EU Cynically Pushes Lithium Mining in Serbia
‘The European Union loves boasting about its green agenda. But its plans rely on electric vehicles — and a push for lithium mining in Serbia, which would outsource the environmental costs of the green transition […]
Geopolitics
France 24: What do we know about the North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia?
Social media users have been circulating several videos and photos that they say show North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia in the Russian region of Kursk. Western and South Korean intelligence services started to report […]
Economics
Michael Hudson, Richard D. Wolff, Nima Alkhorshid – A Concept of a Plan … for the National Interest
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, November 14th, and Michael and Richard are here with us to talk about what’s going on in the United States. Let’s start with Richard. Here is a video […]
Austerity
Wolfgang Streeck – Capitalism: Home Alone
Excerpt from Wolfgang Streeck’s book that appears this week, “Taking back Control? States and State Systems after Globalism”, London and New York: Verso, 2024, pp. 108-21 ISBN-13: 978-18397767296 Wolfgang Streeck is Emeritus Director and Senior […]
Austerity
Lee Jones – Is Trump 2 the End of ‘Neoliberal Order Breakdown Syndrome’?
Why the liberal expert class may be changing its tune in the wake of Trump’s re-election Lee Jones is Reader in International Politics at Queen Mary University of London. He is also one of the […]
Finance
Frédéric Fréry – Volkswagen: the end of a German industrial myth?
Volkswagen is Germany’s largest private-sector employer, but it now faces a mammoth crisis which was partly self-inflicted. Frédéric Fréry is professor of Strategy at CentraleSupélec, ESCP Business School. Cross-posted from The Conversation In late October 2024, […]
Austerity
Reuters: German coalition collapses: What comes next?
Germany’s coalition collapsed on Wednesday as Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked his finance minister and paved the way for a snap election, triggering political chaos in Europe’s largest economy hours after Donald Trump won the U.S. […]
Deregulation
Kirsten Sehnbruch – Will Labour secure workers’ rights for the 21st century?
Labour’s Employment Rights Bill won’t resolve the inequalities that characterise Britain’s labour market. Kirsten Sehnbruch is a Distinguished Policy Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science. During […]
Austerity
Steve Keen – Britain Can’t Afford Rachel Reeves
Why the decision to abolish the winter fuel payment is not just bad politics and ethics, but also bad economics Steve Keen is an Australian economist and author. A post-Keynesian, he criticizes neoclassical economics as […]