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GUE/NGL: EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement – An Explainer

July 13, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is the best critical evaluation of the EU-Mercosur deal we could find. It is a good introduction for battles to come. Cross-posted from the GUE/NGL website The European Union has negotiated a free trade […]

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Transport & Environment – Disastrous Mercosur Deal Opens Door to South American Biofuels While Palm Oil Biodiesel Use Reaches Record High

July 11, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Anyone who takes the time to read about the Mercosur trade deal realises it is not in the interest of the environment, neither in Europe or South America. It is however excellent news for the […]

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Bill Mitchell: ‘Sound finance’ prevents available climate solution with massive jobs potential

July 8, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

“The perfect match – tree planting and job creation” Read here

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Transport & Environment – Almost Two-Thirds of Palm Oil Consumed in the EU is Burned as Energy – New Data

July 3, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is typical for the EU. While citizens are trying to reduce their personal consumption of palm oil to protect the environment, the EU is increasingly using it in fuel. The new trade deal with […]

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Reuters: Austrian parliament backs EU’s first total ban of weedkiller glyphosate

July 2, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Apparently this sovereign decision will be overruled by EU law. Once again the EU proves that it is here to serve international corporations and not the people of Europe. Read here

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Chris Williams – Who has the Power to Restore Nature?

June 27, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

“To create the change we really need, the time is now for bold action” – That mean u.s Chris Williams is Senior Programme Manager and the New Economics Foundation Cross-posted from New Economics Foundation The […]

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Rain Forest Rescue: EU destroys 700,000 hectares of rainforest for biofuels

June 27, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

The EU wants to save our climate with supposedly green biofuels and has deemed palm oil “sustainable”. Yet on the other side of the globe, rainforests are being clear-cut to produce the 1.9 million tons […]

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Hauke Benner – The Economic System Question Arrives at the Centre of German Society

June 24, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Germany will not be the same again. The week of protest against the climate crisis in the coal-mining region on the Rhein Hauke Benner is a former journalist and currently a political activist against climate […]

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Common Dreams: ‘We Are Unstoppable, Another World Is Possible!’: Hundreds Storm Police Lines to Shut Down Massive Coal Mine in Germany

June 24, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

We should be posting an in depth report this week. In the meantime here is a good summary. Read here Activists run towards the Garzweiler open-cast mine. The protests for more climate protection in the […]

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Tree Hugger: Why electric cars won’t save us: There are not enough resources to build them

June 16, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

“[W]e have to stop talking about how electric cars will save us; it takes too much stuff to make them all… We have to look… at making it easier for people to use… bikes, transit […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

August 10, 2025 0

Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

July 2, 2025 0

Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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