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Review: “The Production of Money: How To Break The Power Of Bankers” Ann Pettifor

Posted by in Activism, Development, Ecology, Economics, Feminism, History, Politics, Reading

This is a short and unusual book, very down to earth, while aiming to provide a concise and coherent explanation of today’s complex global banking system. For political analysts, her comparative analysis of the UK’s many weird alternatives proposals for quantitative easing is particularly interesting – it seems that in the UK everyone would like a piece of the “free” money. And she manages to connect banking reform to global development, feminism and climate change! Pettifor begins with this summary: “So what is to be done by the forces of…read more

Mar.25
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Review: “The Crash” Photos by Stephen McLaren

Posted by in Activism, Culture, Economics, History, Politics, Reading

Seeing these photos of real life in the City of London puts faces to the complex story of global financial takeover by focusing on England’s financial centre between 2008 and 2012. In the author’s words: “It’s the summer of 2008 and whispers of an impending financial meltdown carry in the wind. Walking from home in Bethnal Green to the City of London with a camera and a newspaper feels like a posting to the front lines. Skirting Paternoster Square I notice the stockmarket’s scrolling LEDs have RBS and Lloyds shares…read more

Mar.25
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EU whitewash of tax havens

Posted by in Activism, Development, Economics, Politics

Oxfam has released a damning review of the EU’s pending next black- and grey-lists for tax havens, which are expected to omit nearly all the big offenders – a bad sign for the future of global tax collection. Details here:  www.oxfam.org and fuller details about the real tax havens list here (oxfam) and here (tax justice network)

Mar.16
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Where did Brenton Tarrant come from?

Posted by in Activism, Comment, Culture, Development, History, Politics

From a complex mix of 1) mainstream acceptance of racist attitudes in Australia 2) poor prospects for young people in an increasingly unequal world 3) travel through europe funded by bitcoin-related speculation, where he misunderstood France’s migrant history (confusing french colonialism’s long history of foreign-born citizens with recent refugee inflows). I’m not sure the push to suppress his manifesto is a wise one. Good people like New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern (who relatively-speaking is on the side of a more egalitarian future) say we must clearly proclaim this type…read more

Mar.16
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