Corruption
Gerhard Klaas – Three months of mass protests in Albania
The media has stopped paying attention but the protests against Jared Kushner’s luxury resort continue. In ‘International Viewpoint’. Read the article HERE.
The Commons
Neo-Liberalism in the EU
Maike Schmidt, Theo Harris – The Private Finance Myth: Why The Market Won’t Solve Europe’s Infrastructure Crisis
Using private finance to build public infrastructure is short-sighted and almost always ends up costing the public purse more in the long run. Maike Schmidt is an assistant researcher at the New Economics Foundation and […]
Environment
Matt Broomfield – Albanians Are Against Jared Kushner’s Israel-Linked Venture
The massive resistance in Albania to Jared Kushner’s attempt to destroy one of the country’s island’s is an inspiration. Read the article HERE.
Finance
Emma Baker, Amy Clair, Mark Stephens – How Britain’s housing crisis contributes to its declining healthy life expectancy
Quality of housing is closely linked to health outcomes, and for Britons who rent in the private sector, the quality of housing is shoddy. Emma Baker is Professor of Housing Research at the Australian Centre […]
Economics
Richard Murphy – Economic questions: the Thomas Paine question
Paine is a valuable bridge between moral philosophy and democratic economics as the thinker who insisted that political freedom is meaningless without economic security, and that the legitimacy of any society rests on its willingness […]
EU politics
Euronews – Amazon internet service outage highlights EU’s ‘overwhelming reliance on Big Tech’
If a Chinese company had gone down and it had knocked out wide sections of Europe’s internet, a continent-wide emergency would have been announced. But when it’s American big tech that goes wrong, there is […]
Finance
Jonah Schwope, Lena Schröder – Beyond AI Futurism: A Socio-Ecological Vision for AI
The AI tech race is well and truly on, and the EU wants to be part of it, but if it only serves the imperatives of capitalism it is going to be worse than useless […]
Inequality
Guthrie Scrimgeour – You Aren’t Allowed in These Billionaire Towns
‘Welcome to the fully privatised city, where the ultrarich can do as they please — no whining from the rabble permitted.’ In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
Finance
Caitlin Hoyland – The Enclosure of the Commons and the War Economy: A Feminist and Anti-Colonial Critique
Does the concept of the commons hold out hope for a world without war? Caitlin Hoyland is a writer and human rights advocate interning with CODEPINK’s Local Peace Economy program. She has written extensively on conflict, […]
Environment
Emma Belmonte – On Sale for One Euro: Will Albania’s Forests Go Private?
We are still living in a time where, whatever the question, the answer of politicians is: privatisation. Emma Belmonte is a freelance journalist with a double specialisation covering Europe and Asia. After gaining expertise in […]