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Jem Bendell – It’s The Empire, Stupid: Trump, Tariffs, the Dollar, Big Tech, EU Regs and CBDCs

March 18, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Behind the media circus around Trump’s latest shenanigans, there is a serious agenda to entrench the American empire. Jem Bendell is Professor of Sustainability Leadership, University of Cumbria, UK. He has recently published the book ‘Breaking […]

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Corporate Europe Observatory – Uncovering Big Tech’s hidden network

October 30, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Conflicts of interest gone wild in the world of EU big tech regulation. This investigation was a joint initiative between the Corporate Europe Observatory, SOMO and Lobby Control. Cross-posted from Corporate Europe Observatory Over the […]

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Corporate Europe Observatory – The little-known ‘forum’ locking Europe into a fossil fuelled future

October 9, 2024 Ben Wray 0

The European Commission’s ‘ICM Forum’ on 10-11 October in Pau, France, is a fossil-fuel industry-led carbon coup, aiming to lock the continent into fossil fuels for decades. Cross-posted from Corporate Europe Observatory The EU has […]

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Politico – The Metsola exception: The European Parliament president and her lobbyist husband

September 4, 2024 Ben Wray 0

The European Parliament President, Roberta Metsola, never made it public that her husband is a major Brussels lobbyist in the cruise ship industry, despite pushing through a law on lobbying transparency in the European Parliament […]

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Christian Christensen – Elon Musk Doesn’t Know He’s on the Wrong Side of George Orwell

August 22, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Musk’s purchase of Twitter has achieved its ambition: he’s converted his economic power into political power. Christian Christensen is Professor of Journalism at Stockholm University. Follow him on Twitter: @ChrChristensen. Cross-posted from Common Dreams Elon […]

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Michael Roberts – Profits: margins and rates

March 18, 2024 Ben Wray 0

US corporations are raking in big profits, but the future does not look so rosy for American capitalism. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog […]

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Corruption

Corporate Europe – Bayer and Monsanto Merger: what role did revolving doors play?

February 28, 2024 Ben Wray 0

One of the European Commission officials who signed off on the Bayer and Monsanto merger, one of the biggest acquisitions in history, joined a consultancy which had been pushing for the deal a few months […]

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Politico – German industry dominates Ursula von der Leyen’s little black book

February 26, 2024 Ben Wray 0

‘Lobbying disclosures show the private sector — especially German companies — had prime access to the Commission president.’ Read the article HERE.

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Climate Crisis

Clara Bourgin – Why green activists joined farmers protests for fairer EU farming policies

February 7, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Farmers don’t need back-sliding on climate goals, they need policies which rein in corporate power. Clara Bourgin is the food, agriculture, and nature campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe. Cross-posted from Common Dreams (first […]

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Juan Cole – Big Oil Gaslighting on a Planet That Hasn’t Been This Hot in 125,000 Years

December 20, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The fossil fuel industry and their key representatives, such as COP28 President Sultan Al-Jaber, are working hard to hoodwink the world into thinking they are the solution, not the problem. Juan Cole teaches Middle Eastern […]

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Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer

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Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]

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A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges

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Book Review by Chris Green It provides a modicum of relief to one’s mental health to turn from Nicholas Kristof’s lame bothsidesism and Bernie Sanders’s blather about Israel’s “right to defend itself” to reading Chris […]

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