“Are there any adults home?” Greenpeace asks rhetorically after the Norwegian Government on Wednesday announced this year’s licensing round.
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The Goliat oil rig for the Barents Sea. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Economics
Bill Mitchell: The pandemic is demonstrating that we can resist neoliberalism
Pierre Bordieu considered the neoliberal era to be one of the significant retrenchments in our civilisation: … the failure of the state as the guardian of the public interest. Read here
Geopolitics
OCCRP: Middlemen Push Up Prices As Gazans Struggle To Survive
Gaza’s 2.3 million people are facing acute food shortages and half a million people there face “catastrophic levels of deprivation and starvation.” Multiple layers of profiteering compound the problem. Read HERE Photo: AgenciaAndes/Creative Commons
Corruption
European Commission: Bad news for Gig Workers
This does not look good, as it appear that the commission is planning to classify gig workers in a different category from normal workers in order to support platform corporations. Read here
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