Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, living in self-imposed exile in Belgium, will run in the May 26 European Parliament elections as the leading candidate of Junts per Catalunya (JxCat), his political party said on Sunday. An interesting development.
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: The ‘fiscal contraction expansion’ lie lives on – now playing in Italy – Part 2
It will be madness if Italy bows to the pressure from the European Commission and the IMF and its related bullies like Blanchard and Co. and engages in more fiscal austerity. Italy is on the […]
Economics
Valer Simion Cosma, Cornel Ban, Daniela Gabor – The Human Cost of Fresh Food: Romanian Workers and Germany’s Food Supply Chains
Fresh food supply chains in Europe’s transnational agribusinesses depend on cheap, non-unionised, and privately managed labour from low-wage eastern European countries. Read here
Uncategorized
Branko Marcetic: Salvador Allende was in Washington’s crosshairs
Fifty years on, more details on the US role in overthrowing Salvador Allende’s socialist government are being uncovered. Among the latest revelations: Richard Nixon knew that the 1973 coup was going to happen days before […]
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