George Monbiot: Mass starvation is humanity’s fate if we keep flogging the land to death

Do we need a “United States of Europe”? Not according to Ulrike Guérot. She calls for  replacing the current un-democratic neo-liberal EU with a common European democracy. Read here  

This is another lengthy piece by Bill Mitchell, but well worth taking the time to read. As he writes: “the problem of tax avoidance and evasion is not fiscal. Progressives get stuck on that point. […]

Outsourcing has never been evaluated beyond the financial cost, and even then it has proven not to be cheaper than in house sevices. Aditya Chakrabortty provides an example of  whathas been lost, but can be […]