Austerity
Thomas Fazi: The rise of Europe’s military austerity
The EU’s new plan will make 2008 look like child’s play Read HERE
Neo-Liberalism in the EU
Austerity
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 […]
Economics
Joan Torrent-Sellens: Artificial intelligence and market power: a dangerous alliance for jobs (and democracy)
There are signs that highly concentrated economic power in an age of AI is leading to destructive social outcomes Joan Torrent-Sellens is professor of economics and business studies at UOC – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. […]
Austerity
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 […]
Climate Crisis
Paula Andrés – Water politics: How Spain’s drought became a battle ground for rural votes
How the politics of climate change and drought is playing out in the south of Spain. In Euractiv. Read the article HERE.
Neo-Liberalism in the EU
José Ernesto Novaez: Marxism and Colonialism – An Interview with Vijay Prashad
An interesting interview with one of India’s most important marxist intellectuals about neoocolonialism and the crisis of western hegemony José Ernesto Novaez is a journalist and poet. He is the coordinator of the Cuban chapter […]
Finance
Clément Le Ludec, Maxime Cornet: How low-paid workers in Madagascar power French tech’s AI ambitions
A case study in neo-colonial economic relationships: Madagascan workers get paid a pittance to make French ‘artificial intelligence’ intelligent Clément Le Ludec is in the sociology of digital technology department at Télécom Paris – Institut […]
Corruption
Yanis Varoufakis – Europe’s latest illiberal democracy: Greece!
This hell is the “dream” that the EU is offering us Yanis Varoufakis is a former Finance Minister of Greece, Professor of Economics at the University of Athens, and author of several bestselling books including […]
Austerity
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 […]
Deregulation
Loren Balhorn: Order Prevails
A look at the municipal politics of Berlin, where hopes have been dashed that a referendum win in 2021 would bring a breakthrough on the rent problem. Read the article HERE.