Economics
Capitalism, Alone by Branko Milanović
Book Review by Mathew D. Rose The highest praise that I have usually lavished on a book- and this book certainly fulfils this – is: “It has changed my way of thinking about a topic”. […]
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Corruption
Mathew D. Rose – Germany: Liberal Democracy is Rotting from its Core
Most German establishment political parties have turned away from striving for a better society. In recent decades they have become profit-oriented service companies in a billion euro industry: selling laws, permits, public contracts, even protection, […]
Austerity
Mathew D. Rose – Europeans Deserve Better Than This
The EU has failed its citizens. It runs amok directed by Germany’s ossified and frail leader Angela Merkel, and a political class that primarily values its own entitlement. Mathew D. Rose is an Investigative Journalist […]
Economics
The Case for People’s Quantitative Easing by Frances Coppola
Book review by Mathew D. Rose Polity describes its series “The Case for” as “making the case for the radical, positive policies that we need to tackle these big problems – a dysfunctional economy, wealth […]
Corruption
Mathew D. Rose – A Tectonic Shift in German Politics
The major political change that is occurring in Germany cannot be comprehended by the German political class or the European corporate media because the consequences are so horrifying for them. We are seeing the harbingers […]
Corruption
Mathew D. Rose – The EU Election That Wasn’t
There is an odd feeling about the EU elections. One senses that something just is not right. Mathew D. Rose is an Investigative Journalist specialised in Organised Political Crime and an editor of BRAVE NEW […]
Austerity
Globalists by Quinn Slobodian
Book review Mathew D. Rose About a year ago a few academics declared that one could not discuss neo-liberalism because it could not be defined. This seemed rather odd, seeing that the most important literature […]
Austerity
Renegade Inc: Myth Busting the European Dream featuring Mathew D. Rose
Politically you can ignore some of the people some of the time…but you can’t ignore all the people all of the time. For many years European citizens have intuitively opposed unaccountability, a lack of political […]
Austerity
Mathew D. Rose – Why the Far Right came to embrace the EU
What happened to the Far Right threat to the EU? Despite all the threats and resulting headlines it has disappeared. Probably because they may no longer be a threat to the EU, but the saviour […]
Austerity
The European Illusion – Why We Need New Strategies Towards the EU and Beyond by Attac Austria
Book review by Mathew D. Rose It takes courage these days to write a book critical of the EU, especially from a leftist perspective: to do so in Austria even more so. Austria, like Germany, […]