Corruption
Aljazeera: US Supreme Court rejects Bayer’s bid to end Roundup lawsuits
The justices left in place a $25m judgement in favour of a man who says he developed cancer from using Roundup. Read Here
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Fake News
Jonathan Cook – British ‘watchdog’ journalists unmasked as lap dogs for the security state
The cases of Carole Cadwalladr and Paul Mason reveal how readily celebrated media figures are recruited to the intelligence services’ covert information war against other journalists. The case of Paul Mason (see second half of […]
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The Gig Economy Project – UK Uber drivers join train colleagues in striking for higher pay
James Farrar, ADCU General Secretary, tells the Gig Economy Project that Uber has “burned their drivers” by leaving them “exposed to inflation” The Gig Economy Project, led by Ben Wray, was initiated by BRAVE NEW […]
Finance
Piero Valmassoi: European Parliament S&D group meeting hears support for broadening platform work directive to include all workers managed by algorithms
Piero Valmassoi, an EU policy expert specialised in the platform economy, gig work and sustainable urban mobility, reports for the Gig Economy Project on an event organised by the Socialists & Democrats group in the […]
EU politics
Núria Bassa, Toni Strubell – One year of “pardon” for Catalan ministers
As Spain’s Supreme Court considers reimprisonment, Council of Europe call is ignored Toni Strubell is a former MP in the Catalan Parliament, journalist, and author of What Catalans Want Núria Bassa Camps is a Catalan […]
Economics
Michael Hudson – The Fed’s Austerity Program to Reduce Wages
Inflation and interest rate increases are the newest offensive of the financial sector and the 1 percent in their class war against all of us Michael Hudson is the author of Killing the Host (published in e-format by […]
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Michael Roberts – Socialist economic development – a review
Continuous debate on the nature of the Chinese economic system Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael’s Blog Photo: Dong Fang (in the public domain) I […]
Economics
Ramzy Baroud – The End of Laissez-Faire: Russia’s Attempt at Reshaping the World Economy
The Middle East, especially the Gulf region, is vital for the current global economic order and is equally critical for any future reshaping of that order. Moscow is on the case. Ramzy Baroud is a […]
National Politics
Patrick Cockburn – Turkey’s Assault on Syrian Kurds: a Secondary Crises of the Ukraine War?
The hypocrisy of the West with its Ukraine war fever is becoming increasingly glaring Patrick Cockburn is the author of War in the Age of Trump (Verso) Cross-posted from Counterpunch Photograph Source: Combined Joint Task Force […]
Monopolies
Norbert Häring – Social credit system, digital central bank money and humans reduced to parts of a social mega machine
A think-piece after a riotous Whitsun weekend. Social credit and the digital central bank money are tools of technocratic social engineers. They want to turn societies into social mega-machines. To prevent this, it is not […]