30 December 2025
Corruption
BBC – The Romanian forest that’s disappearing
Romania: Rampant corruption, building cheap cars for Renault, exporting cheap labour to Western Europe, destroying its environment. Another EU success story. Watch here
Austerity
Mark Blyth and Carrie Nordlund – Turkey, Greece, Italy, etc.
Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown’s Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and associate director of Brown’s Master of Public Affairs program, share their take on the week’s news. Today’s topics include Trump’s spat […]
Economics
David Harvey: Reading Marx’s Capital Vol 1 – Class 1, Introduction (2019)
Begins at 11:46
The purpose of “sanctions” on an individual is to enable the State to inflict severe penalties on ordinary citizens without having to go through the procedure of specifying a crime, and having to present evidence to a court, which could be challenged, etc. The “rule of law” is eliminated. The politicians can punish you, me, or anyone at their whim.
It’s not just the EU; the UK has also “sanctioned” Graham Phillips, with no criminal charge.