Atoning for their mortgage and pension mis-selling scams has cost the UK banks billions, but their payouts perversely kept consumer spending alive. What happens now?
Climate Crisis
BBC: Climate change: Ukraine war prompts fossil fuel ‘gold rush’
Capitalism never wastes a good crisis. The world is witnessing a “gold rush” for new fossil fuel projects, according to a new report by leading climate change researchers. Read Here Photo: Genghiskhanviet |Permission=public domain
EU politics
Larry Elliot: A perfect economic storm made Italy ripe for a protest vote
Larry Elliot explains what conditions have lead to the whing to the right in Italy. In the end it reduces everything to one word: Eurozone. Read here
Austerity
Noam Chomsky: The Resurgence of Political Authoritarianism
Noam Chomsky on a number of topics concerning the inexorable rise of authoritarianism worldwide. Read here
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