Driving is ruining our lives, and triggering environmental disasters. Only drastic action will kick our dependency
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George Monbiot: Cars are killing us. Within 10 years, we must phase them out
Corruption
El Pais: Spain modernizing Venezuelan tanks despite EU-wide arms embargo
As one sees there is no difference between the “centrist” corrupt Partido Popular and the “centrist” corrupt Social Democrats in Spain. This is pretty much true throughout most of Europe South of Scandinavia. Read here
EU politics
Common Space – Scotland: ‘This is not a fight about party politics’: Women’s equal pay strike rocks Glasgow
WOMEN council workers across Glasgow today began a two-day strike over a pay dispute with Glasgow City Council stretching back 12 years. Read here
Economics
Dani Rodrik: Can Trade Agreements Be a Friend to Labor?
To date, labor clauses in trade agreements have remained a fig leaf, neither raising labor standards abroad nor protecting them at home. Real change would require a significantly different approach, including how trade agreements uphold […]
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