The firing of the anti-monopolist Barry Lynn at the behest of Google has brought the topic of tech monopolies into the political limelight in the US. This is a long read, but provides an insight into Lynn’s work and those pushing back. The question is, why is this hardly a topic in Europe? In the EU illegal cartels have become endemic and de facto tolerated by the EU, having to fear only minor fines in comparison to their transgression, thus translating into trans-European monopolies.
EU politics
CNN – Libya: People for sale
Slave trade in Libya. Thank you EU. Thank you Angela Merkel. Thank you Germany. Thank you Hilary Clinton. Thank you capitalism. Making the EU safe for neo-liberalism! Read here
Energy
Friends of the Earth: EU Commission slammed for backing gas projects during COP26
New list of 30 priority energy projects worth €13 billion a danger to climate and people say NGOs Read here Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license
Economics
Bill Mitchell – Cash machine capitalism – it is getting uglier by the day
The current period where firms who claim to be energy providers admit to having become ‘cash machines’ exemplifies the way that most of us are just considered to be fodder for the profit-making system. Read […]
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