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.
Economics
Ellen Brown: Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match in China
This piece puts the US-China trade war in context. It’s part of a long history of aggressive US attempts to dismantle successful state-led developmentalism across the global South. China is the last one standing. Read […]
National Politics
Thomas Piketty: A Queen with no Lord?
With the death of Elizabeth II, it is tempting to talk about the immutability of British institutions, in contrast to France and its many revolutions and constitutions. In reality, things are more complex, and the […]
Austerity
Simon Wren-Lewis: Government debt phobias, and possible cures
Simon Wren-Lewis answers five basic questions concerning national debt: The country will go bankrupt When will the debt be paid off? Money could go on something more useful than paying interest Why should my taxes […]
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