IMF and World Bank Warn of Financial Crisis as Indonesian Currency Hits Asian Crisis Low World leaders, finance ministers, heads of banks and nongovernmental organizations begin the Annual IMF and World Bank Meetings held this year in Indonesia. Ahead of the meetings the IMF issued stark warnings that another global financial crisis could be on the horizon. As the meetings kickoff, the currency of Indonesia hit lows reminiscent of the devastating "Asian Financial Crisis" of the 1990s....
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 7:36PM
The Criminality of the Elites The offenses of the upper class are hardly publicized. The little are hung while the big can run. People wait in vain for strong interventions in the economic realm while police measures are enforced in no time on the street. Financial criminality harms the state, the community and economic growth (e.g. high-frequency trading, shadow banking, financial products)....
Posted: Wed Oct 3, 2018 4:31AM
Cat Brooks’ Campaign for Mayor Raises Over $100,000 in Grassroots Donations Oakland mayoral candidate Cat Brooks announced that her campaign contributions have surpassed $100,000 in grassroots donations....
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 4:04PM
Call Governor Jerry Brown To Veto AB-2178, Which Restricts Our Right To Share Free Food The California Assembly and Senate have nearly unanimously passed AB-2178, which would impose new restrictions on individuals and community groups, like San Francisco Food Not Bombs, that share free meals. Please call the Governor’s office at 916 445 2841 and ask that AB 2178 be vetoed....
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 7:44AM
Agent Orange is the Symptom, Unbridled Capitalism's the Disease! (Part I) Across the entire NeoLiberal "free world," the feverish anti-T-rump crusade has recently reached a crescendo. Not that the toxic T-rump doesn't deserve the multi-pronged attack on his dystopian swamp of Neanderthal Robber Barons and Bolton-esque warmongers. But almost all of his harshest critics are focusing on the proverbial trees, while missing out on the forest of a Clunkered and Collapsing Capitalist Calamity that had been the "Sole Superpower" of a Globalized world order since 1898....
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2018 5:11AM
RussiaGate is a sophisticated Shell Game The current U.S. corporate media's hysteria over the "RussiaGate" affair is the outcome of a highly sophisticated Shell Game launched by the deepest bowels of the USA Imperial ruling junta. At its most basic nucleus, it is a desperate last-ditch attempt, by the Empire's GateKeepers, to return to the halcyon days of the 1950s Cold War era; a time when the manipulated consensus and bi-partisan ideological unity existed to promote the post-WW II Pax Americana across the entire Globe....
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2018 7:26PM
Post-capitalist Perspectives For the first time in the history of humanity, we are living in a genuine world system, capitalism. It is winning to death. The exit from the overheated machine of capitalism represents an enormous challenge. We cannot avoid the question about common property in the search for social alternatives. Can greater social equality be achieved without changing property relations?...
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2018 5:06AM
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Posted: Mon Aug 6, 2018 3:51PM
The Shortwave Report 08/03/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, Sputnik Radio, and NHK Japan....
Posted: Thu Aug 2, 2018 5:26PM
ICE contractor Palantir to recruit on Berkeley campus 8/31 ICE contractor Palantir will be present on UC Berkeley campus on August 31, at Soda Hall from 6PM to 7:30PM. Will there be a protest?...
Posted: Wed Aug 1, 2018 2:39PM
Capitalism and Worldwide Inequality Thomas Piketty's motto "Inequality is always a problem when it is is excessive" introduces the new World Inequality Report. The inequalities of income and wealth swell globally and in individual regions and nations. The top 1% of income earners worldwide profited twice as much from growth since 1980 than the lower 50% of the world population....
Posted: Wed Aug 1, 2018 3:11AM
Alex Jones supporting alt-right rally in Berkeley, donated five-grand Alex Jones has been supporting the far-right rally in Berkeley, scheduled for August 5th. Jones' show has been a platform for organizer Lindsay Grathwohl and recruiter Ethan Nordean. Alex Jones donated $5000 to Garthwohl explicitly for the upcoming Berkeley conflict....
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2018 7:35PM
Treasury Takes Aim at Shell Companies The US Treasury is calling for greater scrutiny into the use of "anonymous" shell companies. Last week, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin urged Congress to quickly pass legislation to make the identity of shell company owners available to law enforcement....
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2018 11:16AM
Finance Ministers Applaud Greece Debt Deal that Provides Aid and Continues Austerity European Finance Ministers endorse a new Greece debt agreement that provides financing in exchange for maintaining austerity policies and economic reforms....
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2018 3:28PM
Fresno Anti-Authoritarians Call to Action Ivanka Trump Protest in Fresno...
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2018 2:40PM
G7 Hurricane Debt Relief Caribbean/Small Islands “This is the first time that Finance and Development Ministers are meeting jointly at the G7 and they can promote solutions for when financial crises and humanitarian crises collide” notes Eric LeCompte, Jubilee USA Network Executive Director....
Posted: Fri Jun 1, 2018 10:41AM
They Knew What They Did: Texaco in Ecuador The world has created a system where businesses only have rights but no obligations. There is no international tribunal that can make businesses liable for human rights violations. What is perverse is that Texaco knew they polluted the land. World corporations refuse responsibility....
Posted: Thu May 24, 2018 9:27AM
Vatican Urges Transparency to Address Inequality and Prevent Financial Crisis The Vatican released an official assessment on global economics entitled, "‘Oeconomicae et pecuniariae quaestiones" or "Considerations for an ethical discernment regarding some aspects of the present economic-financial system." The document calls for improvements in global finance policies on debt resolution, taxation, financial crisis prevention and transparency. ...
Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 5:35PM
Disconnect to Reconnect Our over obsession with technology has disconnected us from our natural world....
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 3:05PM
IMF and World Bank Meet on 10-Year Anniversary of Financial Crisis World leaders, finance ministers, the private sector and nongovernmental organizations begin the Spring International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings on the 10-year anniversary of the global financial crisis....
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2018 2:17PM