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
Eurostat: EU records trade deficit as gas from Russia and Norway takes its toll
Imports to the EU from Russia and Norway increased year on year 59.1 and 56.4 percent respectively for the period January to October. It is only thanks a rapidly increasing trade surplus with Britain (27 […]
EU politics
Cain Burdeau: Macron’s Star Dims as Ministers Leave, Public Sours
Another one bites the dust. The corporate media cannot get enough of new heroes, who will save Europe´s doomed neo-liberal system. Who is going to replace Macron? Maybe there is a up and coming politician […]
Sustainability
The Guardian: Warning of ‘ecological Armageddon’ after dramatic plunge in insect numbers
At least Monsanto, Bayer and the other multinational pesticide and GMO seed producers are still earning billions. Like Peter Thiel, those making the profits are probably buying estates in New Zealand, where they can go when the environmental […]
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