economy
L’ Europe devienne folle!
Les Européens demandent à leur banque d'investir dans la défense
La France, l'Allemagne et douze autres Etats membres font pression pour que la Banque européenne...
A New Left Party in Germany in times of a structural...
by Harri Gruenberg (*)
Germany is in a deep crisis. The economic crisis that has been shaking Germany for some time is reaching a new...
Minimum wages in 2022: Annual review
Jun 15, 2022
While minimum wages increased substantially between 1 January 2021 and 1 January 2022 in nominal terms, the real-life impact does not...
La monnaie: du pouvoir de la finance à la souveraineté des...
Qu’est-ce que la monnaie, d’où vient-elle, à quoi sert-elle ?
Accroît-elle les inégalités nationales et internationales ?
Pour beaucoup, ce sont des questions techniques, voire rébarbatives. Les...
Biden’s Trap
With razor-thin margins of Democratic control in Congress, US President Joe Biden came to the White House with an unenviable task. His administration must...
Big Pharma’s Dems Score Ad Blitz
A front group for Big Pharma is running ads backing the House Democrats who are trying to gut the party’s plan to cut drug...
How Austerity Helped to Ignite Greece’s Historic Wildfires
by Stelios Foteinopoulos *
Aug. 22, 2021
Photo credit: Lotus R
If Ferdinand Lassalle lived today, he would be able to watch his ideas age badly. In...
Russia’s Siberia may hold one of the world’s largest reserves of...
19 Apr, 2021
The Tomtor deposit of niobium and rare earths located in Russia’s Yakutia Republic is one of the world’s three biggest by reserves,...
America’s Richest 1% Owned 5% in 1990, Own 36% Today
By Eric Zuesse
January 6, 2021
© Photo: Flickr/The Other Bolena
According to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s table that’s headlined, “Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S....
Political Hope Rises
The first in a seven-part, multi-week series of commentary on the COVID-19 crisis
By Radhika Desai
May 6, 2020
This is the first in a seven-part, multi-week...