State predation is not new in Ukraine. Investigations targeting legitimate businesses – aimed at either extorting money or taking over companies at a fraction of their value – have been a feature of Ukrainian business life since independence. However, large-scale predatory activities by so-called law enforcement agencies were curbed after the Revolution of Dignity.
Climate Crisis
Ann Pettifor: It’s the Climate System, not the Weather
The race is on to transform the fossil-fuelled climate system. To do that, society must restrain the debt-fueled Money System. Both envelop, and threaten to overwhelm the planet. But to transform, we must first understand […]
Economics
J. W. Mason – Interview: America’s Inflation Debate Is Fundamentally Confused
Here is all that inflation is: You take all the prices that you can observe, and you average them in some way — and there’s debatable choices you have to make in averaging them, in […]
Austerity
Voice of America: Thousands March in Paris to Protest Pension Reform Plan
Apparently for the first time the unions asked the Yellow Vests to join them in demonstrating. Read here
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