Tel Aviv’s occupation of five heights in Lebanon offers no real military advantage, primarily serving psychological and political aims. However, keeping its troops there for long risks a ceasefire collapse
Austerity
Richard Murphy: Tory austerity has delivered the worst decade for UK productivity growth since the 18th century
Should this be a surprise to anyone? The goal of austerity was to increase inequality, primarily at the cost of the poorest and weakest. Nothing more and nothing less. Read here
EU politics
Bill Mitchell: The EU’s democratic deficit is intrinsic and unfixable without dissolution
Bill Mitchell on the report by Amnesty International EU Vanishing Act: The Eurogroup’s Accountability (see here)
EU politics
Reuters: Greek police clash with students protesting against university shutdown
Hardly had a right-wing government been re-installed in Greece and the EU political elite could gave a sigh of relief – everything back to normal – the old problems reappear. And they will not go […]
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