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Matt Huber: ‘Green capitalism’ is a lie
Review of Adrienne Buller’s ‘The value of a whale: on the illusions of green capitalism’. Read the article HERE.
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Economics
Nick Ferris: What has happened to China’s global coal financing?
Following China’s pledge to end global coal financing there has been a collapse in overall energy financing but no surge in support for renewables. Read Here Photo credit: PughPugh
Media
Turkish Minute: Rights groups call Turkey’s new media law “dangerous, dystopian”
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and ARTICLE 19 have condemned amendments approved by the Turkish Parliament last week which introduce abusive new criminal speech offences that further deepen online censorship and restrict access to information. Read […]
Political Parties
Craig Murray: The Great Crossing
The logical outcome of the UK’s current political situation is for a large section of Conservative Party MP’s to defect to Keir Starmer’s well right of centre, pro-Brexit, New Labour Party. Read Here
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Michael Roberts – China: Xi’s third term – part one: growth, investment and consumption
China is unlikely to follow the advice of western economists, and with good reason Cross-posted from Michael Roberts blog China’s Congress of the Communist Party takes place this week. This is an important event not […]
Climate Crisis
Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – Can we get by without growth, growth, growth?
Before her plans were ripped up, the UK’s newest Prime Minister was promising growth, growth, growth in an economy that has avoided it for a long time. And she was going to do it through […]
Economics
Frances Coppola: Growth… a tale of make believe
Where is the fairy dust when you need it? Frances Coppola goes looking. Read Here
Economics
NBC News: Rail union rejects labor deal brokered by Biden administration, raising possibility of strike
“Railroaders do not feel valued,” said Tony D. Cardwell, president of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes union. Read Here
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – How the West poisoned its money
Capitalism conquered the world by commodifying almost everything that had a value but not a price, thus driving a sharp wedge between values and prices. It did the same to money. The exchange value of […]
Corruption
BBC: Ex-PM Borissov set to win Bulgarian election
And the losers are……the people of Bulgaria Read Here Photo: EPP at https://www.flickr.com/photos/45198836@N04/12978298614