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Buzz Feed News: The UK Refused To Raid A Company Suspected Of Money Laundering, Citing Its Tory Donations

April 19, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Cash donations are supposed to be important for democracy. Large cash donation must therefore be more important for democracy. This looks like large cash donations buys you a get out of jail free card. Is […]

Austerity

Owen Jones: Don’t be fooled by Emmanuel Macron the ‘moderate’

April 19, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The story keeps repeating itself. The corporate press praises a centre- left of centre-right politician as “progressive” and “socially fair” and what is the result? An enforcer of neo-liberalism.  Read here Also read Oliver Davis […]

Austerity

Asbjørn Wahl: Austerity Policies In Europe: There Is No Alternative

April 18, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

“In addition to the democratic deficit that is built into the EU institutions, they have to a great extent acquired their form and content during the neoliberal era. They are therefore dominated by the interests […]

Austerity

Red Pepper: Why Europe needs Corbyn

April 18, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is another article in our continuing debate concerning whether the neo-liberal EU can be reformed to become a democratic, progressive, and social political organisation. Read here  

Corruption

Romania Insider: New bribery investigation in Romania targets ex- finance minister, former MP

April 18, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Romania’s series of corruption investigations seems to be endless.  Romanian politicians have however found a solution to solve this: disband the  public prosecutor’s office and there will be no more investigations. With solutions like this […]

Economics

Branko Milanovic: When autarky becomes the only solution

April 17, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

This article concerning the conflict between the United States and Russia – free of polemic, sensation and war mongering – is well worth reading. Read here  

EU politics

Prem Sikka: Shareholders have run the show for too long – it’s time for radical reform to company boards

April 17, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

What Prem Sikka writes is not only true for Britain, but for the rest of Europe as well. But beware:In Germany, where unions are well represented in boardrooms, union representatives often become as corrupt and […]

Corruption

OCCRP: Second Slovak Interior Minister Quits Over Jan Kuciak’s Murder

April 17, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

It’s a model that repeats itself in the Eastern EU nations: Corrupt governments, providing tax-attractive investment for Western European companies (Slovakia is one enormous German car factory), banks, retailers, etc., sending cheap labour to the […]

Climate Change

Washingtom Post: Shipping emissions agreement not “Paris compliant.”

April 17, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is terribly disappointing. Once again profit has been maliciously put ahead of the environment. Read here  

EU politics

Aditya Chakrabortty: Here’s another job for migrants in Britain – taking on the City’s greed

April 17, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

We were surprised to hear from one of our authors in Spain that news of the UK University Strike never made it to Spain. Well, there is a lot more to politics than Donald Trump’s […]

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Reckless opportunists: Elites at the end of the Establishment by Aeron Davis

April 15, 2018 0

Book review by David Shirreff Oxford, Cambridge and the old school tie used to be a passport to the pinnacles of what was known as the Establishment. Things have changed, but not much, and not […]

Austerity

Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World by William Mitchell and Thomas Fazi

March 15, 2018 0

Book review by Mathew D. Rose According to Bill Mitchell the book’s original title was “Reclaiming the Nation State”. The progressive publisher wanted the word nation removed. The term “Nation State”, claimed the publisher, was […]

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