Geopolitical Economy Report
Geopolitical Economy Report
Ben Norton
West's new cold war on Russia & China crushes EU's economic heart: German industry
36 minutes Posted Feb 18, 2024 at 2:08 pm.
Crisis in EU's economic heart: Germany
EU admits "our prosperity was based on China and Russia"
German industry
US-NATO "vassalization" of Europe
Cheap Russian gas or expensive US LNG?
Corporations and speculators profit
Greedflation
Neoliberal austerity is back
US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)
Economic war on China backfires
Rise of far-right
Germany's leftist anti-war alternative
Environmentalist policies are not the problem
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NATO's new cold war on Russia and China is destroying Germany's industrial base, devastating Europe's economy, and destabilizing its politics, fueling the rise of the far-right, as neoliberal austerity policies exacerbate the ongoing recession. Ben Norton analyzes the evidence.
Links:
- EU confesses ‘our prosperity was based on China & Russia’: cheap energy, low-paid labor, big market: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/10/18/eu-prosperity-china-russia-energy-market
- German lawmaker denounces Ukraine 'proxy war' and US 'terror attack' on Nord Stream pipelines: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/22/germany-ukraine-nord-stream-sevim-dagdelen
- How corporate profits are driving inflation, not workers' wages: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/06/26/corporate-profits-inflation-europe-imf
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