Brexit: UK Still Refusing to Do Any Thinking Re Trade
The UK is going nowhere fast on Brexit, except it is trying even harder than before to blame the EU for its problems.
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ECB Spawned Financial Dependency That’s Now Very Hard to Undo
The ECB is very eager to withdraw extraordinary support. But among others, a lot of weak banks are hooked on it.
Read more...Chaos in Catalonia Hits Barcelona Housing Bubble
Barcelona wanted to take some air out of its property bubble. Will it wind up getting more than it bargained for?
Read more...Fracking Boom Further Spurs Plastics Crisis
The usual suspects behind climate change are fuelling the plastics crisis and investing to create more waste rather than clean up the mess.
Read more...Next Phase in Forcing Biometric Tracking on Consumers
Ironically, banks in Mexico lead the way.
Read more...Exposure to Brexit in Regions on Both Sides of the Channel
A granular analysis of which regions will lose most from Brexit.
Read more...EU’s Michel Barnier Clears Throat to Tell the UK It Won’t Get a Special Deal…After God Knows How Many EU Leaders Have Already Said That
The EU is still making a lot of noise to get the UK to begin to hear things the EU has been saying since the morning after the Brexit vote.
Read more...Newly-Declassified Documents Show Western Leaders Promised Gorbachev that NATO Would Not Move “One Inch Closer” to Russia
Newly-declassified records bolster Russia’s claim that the US and its European allies reneged on commitments to Russian security.
Read more...Don Quijones: A New Stealth Attack in EU’s “War on Cash”
The definition of cash widens.
Read more...David Davis Points Out Brexit “Breakthrough” Isn’t Binding as Draft European Council Statement Tightens the Screws
More discussion of the overhyped Brexit “breakthrough” of last Friday.
Read more...Brexit “Breakthrough”: Headfake or May Trying to Engineer Further Capitulation to EU?
The UK has managed show “sufficient progress” so as to be allowed to go to the\ next phase of Brexit talks. But what does that really mean?
Read more...Catalonia: Political Prisoners or an Extrajudicial Elite?
A close look at events before and after Catalonia’s referendum to test the validity of the main claims made by the separatists.
Read more...Germany’s Dystopian Plans for Europe: From Fantasy to Reality?
For Germany, the idea of Europeanism has allowed its elites to conceal their hegemonic project behind the veil of ‘European integration’.
Read more...Brexit’s Irish Checkmate
Brexit talks and Theresa May are in serious trouble.
Read more...UK Press Making Optimistic Noises re Big Brexit Hurdle: Breakthrough or Headfake?
Today is the day of a big Brexit deadline. But don’t get your hopes up.
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