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Growth: the destructive god that can never be appeased

The blind pursuit of economic expansion stokes a cycle of financial crisis, and is wrecking our world. Time for an alternative By George Monbiot for The Guardian, Tuesday 18 November 2014 Another crash is coming. We all know it, now…

Inclusive Capitalism is an oxymoron

This is how Clive Menzies, political economist with a background in business and investment management, founder of the Critical Thinking research project at the Free University and member of the Occupy London Economics Working Group defines the Conference on Inclusive…

New Scientist report: “Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world”

By Clive Menzies for Critical Thinking, presented to the meeting “The future of Occupy” A study published in the New Scientist shows 147 “super-entities” control 40% of a network of 43,060 trans-national corporations and 60% of their revenues which means…

Do we know what we eat?

Knowing what we eat has become something which is every day more difficult. The recent food scandal where horse meat was detected in beef highlights this clearly. Cannelloni from La Cocinera, burgers from Eroski, ravioli and tortellini from Buitoni, and…

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