The Covid-19 crisis, the most serious global health crisis in a century, forces us to fundamentally rethink the notion of international solidarity. Beyond the right to produce vaccines and medical equipment, it is the whole question of the right of poor countries to develop and to receive part of the tax revenues of the world’s multinationals and billionaires that must be asked. We need to move beyond the neo-colonial notion of international aid, paid at the whim of rich countries and under their control, and finally move towards a logic of rights.
Economics
Renegade Inc: Universal Basic Income – Utopian or Real?
Every once in a while, an idea surfaces that catches the imagination of the public: academics, policy wonks, economists, entrepreneurs and even some governments. Universal Basic Income (UBI) is one of those ideas. Read here […]
Economics
Jonathan Cook: Don’t be fooled by the ‘noble lie’ we live in a democratic West
Interviews with Zelenskiy, Keir Starmer and Sam Harris strip away the illusion that we control our political system rather than it controls us Read Here
EU politics
Irish Examiner: AIB to pay no corpo tax for 20 years: CEO
First the taxpayer bailed out the Irish banks. Now the Allied Irish Bank is permitted to defer taxes on these losses – for 20 years! What was that about getting screwed coming and going? Read […]
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