@samagreene I don't think the global anti-corruption movement ever considered the possibility that the US would one day just decide that corruption isn't a problem.

"It's drastically different from what we had beforehand." How the Publish What You Pay coalition has rethought its global strategy for the era of climate crisis and energy transition. Listen here:

This is interesting: for years the US used the global dollar clearing system as a political weapon. Now Musk's team of young rightwing nerds are trying to do the same thing against the US government itself.

A British legislator calls for democratic public ownership of the UK's troubled private water companies.

New on Critical Takes: From mining transparency to justice and equity. Ketakandriana Rafitoson of @PWYPtweets explains how the global civil society coalition is widening its remit for the energy transition. Listen here:

@Bakhunin In the next couple of months I'm going to start drawing together all the ideas published on Critical Takes, to suggest how they might fit together into a single vision (and consider what else might need to be included).

The new Critical Takes newsletter is out. Fresh thinking and updates on the problem of corporate power and how to challenge it:

A really big victory for climate campaigners. Rosebank is a huge oil and gas project off the coast of the UK. The UK government has said it's not in favour of new oil fields. This ruling will make it harder to back down, as some ministers might be tempted to do.

“There’s a huge lobby pressure from US tech … to not properly enforce EU regulations.” Max Bank of LobbyControl talks to Critical Takes about the political power of Big Tech and what it's like being a campaigner at Davos. Listen here:

New! The "corporate siege" of Davos, Big Tech's political pressure on Europe and Musk's meddling in Germany. Max Bank of LobbyControl talks to Critical Takes on Corporate Power. Also at @criticaltakes.bsky.social if you're not keen on Nazis or spam.

Private creditors should be obliged by law to offer timely and adequate relief to countries hit by debt crisis, says Cafod.

RT @_KarenHao: As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from De…

Timing is everything, also for spam. The speaker they're advertising is from Nvidia.

The UK's plans to weaken the regulation of private investors are unlikely to end well, says @nickshaxson

One to bookmark for the next time some economist says Southern countries must make themselves attractive to private capital. The money can just leave. Not because of anything those countries have done, but simply because US interest rates are higher.

Here's a handy list of the various ways in which Amazon exploits other businesses and its customers.

RT @TaxJusticeNet: “Trump hasn’t just killed the OECD’s weak tax reforms, he’s effectively threatening to scrap everything built over the l…

RT @CICTAR_Tax: Property speculators extract €2.5 bn annually from the French health and care system, finds the new report from CICTAR and…

Trump takes aim at the OECD's corporate tax reforms. Well, actually any foreign tax reforms which threaten the profits of his billionaire courtiers.

RT @dcmccoy11: New @UNU_IIGH briefing paper on the growing influence of private finance capital on health. We provide a simple explanation…