EU plans to introduce US-style extraterritorial sanctions in violation of international law and to target companies of third countries for their exports to Russia. Non-Western alliances (BRICS, SCO) expand.
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis: How Syriza’s capitulations allowed the Greek right to escape the dustbin of history
The left-wing party’s embrace of austerity created the conditions for a parasitic and cruel oligarchy to return. Read here
Geopolitics
Martin Barnay – The Franc Zone
Analysis of the troubles facing ‘Francafrique’. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
HUNGARY today: Successful Audi Strike Could Mean a New Era for Workers
This is what happens in a dictatorship. Think of all those Volkswagen shareholders (Audi belongs to the transnational corporation Volkswagen), who will suffer. Where is the EU when they really need it? There must be […]
The sanctions policy looks more and more like the Suicide Squad in Life of Brian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUHk2RSMCS8