Millions of its readers believe The Guardian offers critical, independent reporting that is different to the right-wing, billionaire-controlled UK media. But its limited coverage of British foreign and security policies gives a misleading picture of what the UK does in the world. The paper is in reality a defender of Anglo-American power and a key ideological pillar of the British establishment.
EU politics
Romania-Insider: Ex-president, other officials join rally for union of Moldova with Romania
There is a recrudescence of nationalism in the Eastern EU. The Hungarian minority in Romania wants to become part of Hungary. Romania wants Moldova to once again belong to Romania. This is especially dangerous as […]
Corruption
Reuters – Explainer: Europe’s money laundering scandal
A nice summary of EU money-laundering – up to now. This story still has a lot of road ahead of it as the US authorities tend to be more strident in their investigations (see the […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: IMF changes tune on industry policy – shamelessly – Part 2
In Part 1, I introduced the discussion about the use of industry policies in the Keynesian period after World War 2. Most nations adopted a mixed planning-market based system for allocating productive resources and the […]
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