Corruption
Tax Justice Network – October Podcast
In edition 70 of the Taxcast we look at the booming business of passports and residency for sale, and why it should worry us all. Also: even the IMF now advocates wealth taxes to combat […]
Solutions
Solutions
George Monbiot: Keynesianism is dead. We need a radical reboot of our economy
George Monbiot proposes a couple of useful suggestions for turning around the modern state and its economy. Read here
EU politics
Olivier Tonneau and Sophie Rauszer – Plan B vs EU: Refoundation before dislocation
As a new financial crisis threatens the world, actors of the radical Left will convene at the fifth Plan B summit to save Europe from the neoliberal regime leading it to the abyss. Olivier Tonneau […]
Climate Crisis
George Monbiot: Opinion Insectageddon: farming is more catastrophic than climate breakdown
At least Monsanto, Bayer and the other multinational pesticide and GMO seed producers are still earning billions. Like Peter Thiel, those making the profits are probably buying estates in New Zealand, where they can go when the environmental […]
EU politics
Owen Jones: British banks can’t be trusted – let’s nationalise them
Brexit is going in directions that no one even contemplated before the referendum – Britain rethinking its economic future. This is not the stuff of ultra-conservatives and racists, but a left that is discovering that […]
Energy
Hulya Dagdeviren – Control of the Energy Sector
The British government’s energy policy is marked by poor performance and high costs for consumers. While energy companies rake in massive profits and repeatedly introduce steep price increases, they treat their customers with contempt and neglect. There is great […]
EU politics
George Monbiot: Referendums get a bad press – but to fix Britain, we need more of them
650 parliamentarians decide for 66 million Britons. Elections are years apart. Is that really democracy asks George Monbiot. There must be a way to improve this system: referendums. The sort of referendum used for Brexit […]
Climate Crisis
Jason Hickel – Why less is more
GDP has become a fetish. This obsession with major GDP growth makes reducing CO² impossible. The other downside is that GDP growth mainly ends up enriching the 1 %. The solution lies in re-distribution. There […]
EU politics
Yanis Varoufakis and James K. Galbraith: Why Europe Needs a New Deal, Not Breakup
“The EU is facing a crisis of legitimacy – but retreating to the nation-state will only benefit the far right.” The authors set out a plethora of programmes to save the EU. Read here
Solutions
George Monbiot: How Labour could lead the global economy out of the 20th century
The world is stuck in a political and economic rut. A system that has failed and is daily failing 99% of the earth’s population needs to be replaced. George Monbiot offers a series of solutions. […]