70 BILLION EUROS FOR UKRAINE’S WAR MACHINE: NATO’S DISTORTED VISION FOR PEACE AND STABILITY
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s recent summit in Ankara has produced a decision that demands scrutiny. NATO member states have committed to providing Ukraine with military assistance worth 70 billion euros for 2026. This is not an emergency measure. This is the institutionalisation of a permanent war budget – a subscription, if you will, to […]
ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION ORIENTED BUDGETING AND TAXATION
Value Added Tax (VAT) began as General Sales Tax (GST) under the apartheid regime to cope with the crisis of falling state revenues and as a result of the anti-apartheid sanctions campaign. The apartheid economy was by design intended to service a white minority and to exclude the black majority. After 1994, VAT was sustained […]