Rheinmetall opens Germany’s biggest ammunition factory, aiming to catch up with the world’s leading arms makers. Berlin is set to slash welfare to finance militarisation. Demonstrators face growing repression.
Economics
Bill Mitchell: The pandemic is demonstrating that we can resist neoliberalism
Pierre Bordieu considered the neoliberal era to be one of the significant retrenchments in our civilisation: … the failure of the state as the guardian of the public interest. Read here
Media
Yann Philippin, Stefan Candea: OCCRP: The hidden links between a giant of investigative journalism and the US government
‘The OCCRP, the largest organised network of investigative media in the world, hid the extent of its links with the US government, this investigation can reveal. Washington supplies half of its budget, has a right […]
Finance
The hunt for Toys R Us’ missing millions: Investigators probe a £580m loan moved to a tax haven just months before the store went bust
As usual, in the end we shall discover that this was “completely legal” and the pension fund will be left with a massive deficit. Read here
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