The result of lobbyism and weak & corrupt politicians, who don't look further than their own career and friends.
This will haunt us for many years to come, because people keep on voting for those kind of assholes.

#europe #politics #lobbying #corruption #neoliberalism

https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/20/europe-learned-the-wrong-lesson-by-doubling-down-on-fossil-fuels-while-india-and-china-wen

Interesting talk by Richard Murphy (Emeritus Professor of Accounting)

Neoliberal economics is fiction

“Neoliberalism has dominated economics and politics for 45 years, despite being based on nothing more than myths, falsehoods, and fantasies that should have discredited the cult promoting it long ago.“

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03/23/neoliberfal-economics-is-fiction/#comment-area

#Neoliberalism #Criticism

Why People Killed By Aerial Bombing Don't Matter

The West’s monopoly over this most lethal violence has conditioned how we see the victims of bombs – if we see them at all.

by Raghu Karnad
The Wire
November 17, 2023

https://thewire.in/history/israel-gaza-palestine-aerial-bombing

>The new world order is here and #neoliberalism is dead<

#RichardMurphy #EconomicJustice

#PoliticalCommunication
#Warfare

https://youtube.com/watch?v=cr8VYDGuRsc&is=6g4lUV-xM4jREr75

Been thinking…(it sometimes happens :))… if an international corporation wishes to trade in Australia, they are essentially applying to make a profit (withdraw $$) from the Ausralian econnomy. Since the govt is the entity which pumps money (creates) the economy and manages (levies taxes) it for the benefit of its citizens and permanent residents, those corporations have a ‘duty’ to pay their fair share of the taxes required to participate in our economy. Moreover, they should also pay further taxes to ensure that they don’t adversly affect it — they should not take more money out of the economy then they put in. That seems fair.

I know that #globalisation and #neo-classical economics would peddle a story about the economy needing foreign investments in order to grow the ‘pie’, but that is only a #neoliberalism. Foreign investments only add funds to an already growing sovereign economy (through domestic innovation, population growth, etc.), it’s not a necessity, it’s more like a ‘nice-to-have’ (if managed properly) and only if that investment returns more $ to the economy then those investors syphons out as profits which tend to go overseas to grow a foreign economy.

Those are my layman’s views of course. Experts and pundits will use a lot of technical jargon to counter those views. But really, it’s only a smoke screen used by #Grifters. Our First Nations people survived for 60,000 years without our ‘western’ style #Grifting …erh, sry, economic theories.

I forgot I downloaded this.
Results of liberalism.
- contaminated food
- typhoid epidemics
- Cholera epidemics
- drinking water contamination
- 11 year old kids working 14 hr days in factories etc, while grown men were unemployed.
- young underage girls exploited in factories (not just work)― used in every way and misused in every way.
- natural environment pillaged and raped
- mass poverty, no pension
* no gov intervention, nor...

#Neoliberalism