Reading / DVDs
The Institute of International and European Affairs
Grist - Politics
Financial Programming and budget - 15 videos (European Commission)
French budget
Greek budget
UK budget
German budget
Occupy Wall Street. The history and survival of the Occupy Wall Street protest and movement
Aftershock: The next economy and America's future Robert Reich
ù (Bill Moyers)
- Modern Times. Charlie Chaplain
- Metropolis, Fritz Lang
- Bananas at any Cost
- The Corporation, Mark Achbar
- Capitalism, a Love Story, Michael Moore
- John Pilger, The New Rulers of the World
- Joseph Stiglitz, Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
- Ha-Joon Chang, 23 things they don't tell you about capitalism
- Ha-Joon Chang. Bad Samaritans
- Ha-Joon Chang. Kicking away the ladder. Development strategy in historical perspective
- Peter Chapman. Jungle Capitalists
The Fake Trade Counterfeit production in China
The Great Challenge: China, Russia a geopolitical analysis of world power and energy strategy
Brief Guide to the CAP
Daniel Hannan - the idiocy of the CAP
CAP reform (BBC Country File)
The Meatrix (corporate control of agriculture)
Black Gold - 4m trailer / interview. The economics of the coffee business.
Bananas at any cost. 1h27m. The banana industry
Chicken Madness. 30m. The chicken industry and effects on Cameroon
We Feed the World - 8m extracts from the film. In Dutch with English subtitles. World food security
Industrial chicken farming in Germany
German Pork Production
US Corn subsidies
US agricultural subsidies
- Julian Cribb, The Coming Famine: The Global Food Crisis and what we can do to Avoid it.
- Philip Lymbery, Farmageddon - the true cost of cheap meat
The Common Agricultaure Policy (pdf. D. Rees)
EU Farm subsidy - who gets what and why - (farmsubsidy.org)
US food subsidies and corn use (GoBankingRates.com)
World food security (pdf. D. Rees)
CAP 2013 guide (Group CAP 2013)
CAP guide EU Commission
Meeting the challenges of WTO and CAP reform (Irish Farmers' Asociation)
EU Trade policy
European Commission DG Trade
EU Free-trade agreements
EU and China trade
EU-Canada Free-Trade deal (The Globe and Mail)
Opposition to the WTO
EU Free Trade agreements (DG Industry)
EU Trade Policy
EU TTIP negotiations (EC)
TTIP The debate (Euranet 23m)
TTIP film (IBT Partners)
Dangers of TTIP (RAWW)
Criticism of TTIP (War on Want. 47m)
EU Mercosur negotiations (EC)
EU China bilateral trade talks (Chinese Economy)
Mondragon (pdf)
Gordon Gekko - Greed is Good (Daily Motion)
Gordon Gekko - "Greed is Not Good"
The Wall Street Code 50m. High-speed trading
US Debt crisis explained YouTube 5m film
A fighting chance (TARP, Frank-Dodd..) (David Rees)
2010 Flash Crash
Lend-lease program (WWII) (FastrackHistory)
The NewDeal (David Rees)
Inside Job 1h50. The 2008 crisis. In English with Spanish subtitles.
Meltdown Part 1 The Men who Crashed the World (AlJazeera)
Meltdown Part 2 A Global Tsunami (AlJazeera)
Meltdown Part 3 Paying the Price (AlJazeera)
Meltdown Part 4 After the fall (AlJazeera)
Elizabeth Warren. A Fighting Chance. Explains her role in TARP, the creation of the Dodd-Frank act and bank lobbying in Washington.
Eurobonds (explainitychannel)
Greece, a crisis born of neoliberal madness (the Real News)
Buy Buy Europe - Austerity to the grave (Docwerkers)
European Debt Crisis (David Rees)
The European Debt Crisis - possible solutions (David Rees)
EU public data
Eurobarometer (portal for EU data)
Gapminder (world charts, videos, animated statistics)
Index Mundi Country statistics and charts
CIA World Factbook
Global Issues
Trading Economics Indicators
IMF Data
World Bank data base
United Nations data
Life expectancy
Increase in terrorism since 'war on terror' Press TV (7m)
Understanding ISIS and the US war on terror C-Span (58m)
viEUws is a web-based medium covering EU news and affairs through
high quality video interviews and debates with top-level EU
decision-makers and stakeholders.
UACES - The Academic Association of European Studies - Ideas on Europe blog
Documentary films online from topdocumentaryfilms
Documentary films online from documentaryheaven
Documentary films online from sprword
Documentary films online and for purchase from dogwoof
Documentary films online from YouTube
Documentary films online from EUTube
EU Commission video archives
EU Commission. Audiovisual services
MAVISE database (data base of TV channels in the EU)
EU Parliament TV.
Statistics database from Eurostat
EU Energy Policy (Van Rompuy)
EU Climate Action
Arctic energy race
Sea the Truth - 60m Overfishing and marine sustainability
The End of the Line 2m trailer. Where have all the fish gone?
The vanishing of the bees. 2m trailer. The economic consequences of losing bees.
Petropolis 6m trailer. The Alberta Tar Sands
The Age of Stupid. 1h33m. The effects of Global Warming
A Crude Awakening. 1h23. The Oil Crash.
The Great Challenge: Oil 47m. Press TV.
Frack them all! The dangers of fracking from Russia Today
EU Energy (pdf. D. Rees)
Arctic map (gif)
Oil and gas lines (gif)
Climate Action (European Commission)
Energy effiiciency (European Commission)
EU energy trends 2030 (DG Energy)
EU Energy Key Figures (European Commission pdf)
Monitoring 2020 progress (Student Think Tank)
Nuclear energy. (Student presentation 2014)
Energy efficiency (Student presentation 2014)
Geothermal energy (Student presentation 2014)
Wind energy (Student presentation 2014)
Hydroelectric power (Student presentation 2014)
Oil security (Student presentation 2014)
Gas security (Student presentation 2014)
Greenhouse gas emmissions (Student presentation 2014)
Solar Power (Student presentation 2014)
European Enlargement (film from the IIEA)
EU membership and partners (pdf)
EU European Neighbourhood Policy states (picture)
EU European Neighbourhood states (picture)
Supranational European bodies (picture)
Supranational European bodies (pdf list)
Turkey and the EU (pdf DR)
History of the Euro (15m film European Commission)
Euro Convergence Criteria
Maastricht Criteria
New Stability Pact (The 6-Pack) Europa
EU opinions from Eurobarometer
European Commission websites
EU information from Europa
Press releases from Europa
European Commission audiovisual services (video database)
Britain in Europe - edging towards exit (The Economist)
Nigel Farage (UKIP. The Telegraph)
The Greek Resistance 47m Aljazeera. Greek-German relations and the Greek debt crisis 10 years on
The UK and Europe (David Rees)
Euroscepticism - France (students)
Euroscepticism - Germany (students)
Euroscepticism - Greece (students)
Euroscepticism - Italy (students)
Euroscepticism - Netherlands (students)
Euroscepticism - Turkey (students)
The Tax-Free tour. How big corporations avoid paying taxes
Will American companies pay their taxes? 7m The Ed Show
Is our tax system fair? (3m) from MoveOn org (democracy in action)
EU Commission on Corporation tax
- Michael Veseth, Globaloney 2.0; the Crash of 2008 and the Future of Globalization
- Arundhati Roy, Power Politics of Globalisation
- Globalization and Marxist Theory
- Jeremy Fox, Chomsky and Globalization
- Dave Renton. Marx on Globailization
- Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents
- Joseph Stiglitz, Making Globalization Work
- Michael Veseth. Globaloney 2.0.
- Walden Bello. Deglobalization. Ideas for a new world economy.
Tellus Institute Research and action for a global civilization of sustainability, equity and well-being.
Greece, a crisis born of neoliberal madness (the Real News)
Greek 10-year Bonds
Stiglitz on a Grexit
European Debt Crisis (David Rees)
The European Debt Crisis - possible solutions (David Rees)
- John Perkins, The Secret History of the American Empire (IMF)
- Kevin Danaher, 10 reasons to Abolish the IMF & World Bank
Corporate lobbying (is4 profit)
Lobbyists (US) (Illustrated Essays)
What does a lobbyist do? (Germany)
Senator Warren on Citigroup lobbying and power in Washington
The Brussels Business. Watch France Films. 1h25.
Lobbying: US 'Dirty 30'
Lobbying presentation (pdf)
Consulting companies in Brussels (Consulting Forum)
Lobbyfacts (data on EU lobbying)
EU Commission Toolbox
Example of lobbying process / questions DG Trade
Mexico, NAFTA's biggest lie (Real News)
NAFTA and US farm subsidies devastate Mexican agriculture (Real News)
*The Single Market is 20 years old (European Commission)
EU minimum salaries 2013 (picture)
French minister slams Germany's 'unfair' wages (The Local)
Member states split over cross-border workforces (pdf European Voice)
The Single Market (pdf DR based on the two films*)
The Wall Street Code. How computers and algorithms are doing the trading
Tulipomania (extract from...)
Not business as usual 60m. Alternative corporate structures and responsibility
David Harvey on Marx's Capital and the urban origins of crisis
Karl Marx and Marxism (54m 1983 documentary)
The bloody history of communism (128m)
Intellectual hegemony: JFK to 9/11 Everything is a rich man's trick. 3h30.
Intellectual hegemony. 9/11 - an inside job. List of films from Topdocumentary films.
- Charles Derber. Marx's Ghost.
- Globalization and Marxist Theory
- Ernest Mandel. An introduction to Marxist Economic Theory
- Kieran Allen. Marx and the alternative to Capitalism
- Dave Renton. Marx on Globailization
Marx and Cultural Hegemony. Student presentation 2016
Military control seen through the eyes of Marxism. Student presentation 2016
Ottoman empire part 2
Ottoman empire part 3
Armenian genocide (aghet.
Membership of EEA
The EU with a UK (Brexit). 80s. ViEUws
David Cameron on the EU (Nov. 2015)
The Koch Brothers Exposed (60m) on their attack on democracy in the USA
Lawrence Lessig - Political reform
The Great Challenge: China, Russia a geopolitical analysis of world power and energy strategy
Political funding
Interview on wealth distribution with Senator Elizabeth Warren and Thomas Piketty (48m)
Changing income and welath inequalities in the USA
Minimum wages in the USA (Robert Reich, Move-On) 3m.
Rich man's Trick. Intellectual hegemony from JFK to 9/11. 3.5hours.
Inequality for all (Robert Reich) 1h30
- Branko Milanovic. The haves and the have-nots. 2011
Sustainable Economics to End Global Poverty from 'Share the World's Resources'
Research papers from Oxfam International
Research papers from CAFOD (Catholic Aid Agency)
Observatoire des Inégalités (in French)
Poverty levels in the world Index Mundi
