After months in a kind of stand-off, the Catalan independence movement will return to the streets this Friday. The holding of a Spanish cabinet meeting in Barcelona – planned weeks ago – comes at a new moment of tension between the independence movement and the Spanish government.
Economics
Bill Mitchell – British labour market – rise in self-employment driving growth
“The proportion of self-employed who are working part-time has risen from 17.6 per cent in the June-quarter 1992 to 30.1 per cent in the November-quarter 2018.” This is something that could well be relevant for […]
Climate Crisis
Energy Transition: ‘The amount of energy required by direct air carbon capture proves it is an exercise in futility’
Removing CO2 directly from the air requires almost as many joules as those produced by burning the fossil fuel in the first place Read Here
Geopolitics
Larry C. Johnson – Larry Squared, Putin is Unyielding, and Yemen Holds Firm
Trump’s effort to negotiate a quick end to the war in Ukraine has stalled, in large measure because Zelensky and his crew reject the agreement the US reached with Russia in Riyadh on Monday, and […]
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