Deregulation
Aurelien – The End?
There must be some way out of here … surely? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack A scene from Samuel Beckett’s Endgame The original idea behind these essays when I started them three years ago, was that […]
Privatisation
Finance
Hossein Zarei – What caused the crisis at British Steel?
Decades of neglect of the UK’s industrial base has led to a situation where the UK Government has had to step in to stop the last steel plant in the country from closing, but the […]
Austerity
Taking Back Control? – States and State Systems After Globalism by Wolfgang Streeck
Book Review by Mathew D. Rose It is difficult to believe that it is just over thirty years since the establishment of the unipolar world under the US, the end of history, and the victory […]
Corruption
Robin McAlpine – Change the story, change the future
The authoritarian neo-liberal political class together with state and corporate media bombard us daily with the same old lie: CAPITALISM IS GOOD FOR US. It is good for the wealthiest 10%, but it is destructive […]
Privatisation
Emanuele Pugliese – AI can transform research, but if it’s all in private hands’ will society benefit?
With the big tech companies controlling the big AI research budgets, we are poorly placed to ensure Artificial Intelligence is developed in a way which serves humanity as a whole. Emanuele Pugliese is a Researcher […]
Austerity
Michael Roberts – Books of the year 2024
Every year at this time, I look back at the books that I have reviewed during the year on this blog. I’ll take them in chronological order. José Tapia had a new book on the […]
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
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 […]
Economics
Michael Hudson – Barbarism or Civilization
The post-World War II order has been a new kind of imperialism. It basically is a financial imperialism, not the European-style colonial imperialism enforced by a military occupation. Michael Hudson is President of The Institute […]