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
Public Banking: Bringing Taxes Back To Us Public banking will bring great equality and economic prosperity to local regions...
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 11:17PM
The World Dependent on Central Banks The situation seems contradictory. We live in an exceptional situation that the world has not seen before. The global economic and financial system has been clinically dead since 2008. It only functions because it is artificially kept alive by the central banks like a patient in the intensifve care unit. $18 trillion was pumped into the global system....
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 4:39AM
Prohibiting Micro-Second Betting on the Exchanges The financial sector that has gone off course should serve the real economy again in the future. The exchange functions like a gigantic casino with the difference that a casino is more transparent and is easier to understand. Throwing some sand in the gears with a transactions tax would slow down the speculation. Only opening the exchanges two days a week would be better....
Posted: Mon Apr 9, 2018 4:14AM
5 Reasons for UN Agreements Regulating Corporations Countless cases of human rights violations by corporations show voluntary self-commitments of businesses cannot ensure social and ecological standards. Instead of social achievements, neoliberal globalization brings a deregulation race downwards. UN agreements create rights for persons instead of companies....
Posted: Mon Apr 2, 2018 2:46AM
Trump - Hard as Steel There is outrage over the nationalist economic policy of "America First." The parallels to the 1929 system crisis are obvious. The unstable house of cards on the world financial markets could finally collapse. Credit-financed demand is created for a goods-producing industry that suffocates in its own productivity....
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 6:53AM
Caribbean Religious Leaders Call for Debt Relief in Face of Disasters From Grenada to Saint Lucia, religious leaders are calling for processes to provide debt relief in the face of natural disasters....
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 7:27AM
Debt, Corruption and Tax Policies Impact Poverty, Says Vatican at United Nations During United Nations Human Rights Council meetings last week, Archbishop Ivan Jurkovič, the Geneva based Vatican representative stated, “We can no longer frame the debt crisis as an exclusively economic problem. It affects future generations, as well as the social conditions that allow the enjoyment of human rights of vast numbers of people entitled to the solidarity of the whole human family.”...
Posted: Fri Mar 9, 2018 11:14AM
The Headline We Waited for: Ban USA From Olympics For those of us who can easily remember the anti-Communist hysteria of the 1950s, and all the other horrors of US imperialism since then, the headline on a leading capitalist website, Huffington Post, "Ban The United States From The Olympics," is a sign that US imperialism is finally sinking in its own waste of drugging and raping its own athletes, while pointing the finger at other countries, especially Russia....
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 9:16AM
Calif Cops work with alt-reich to attack and prosecute counter demonstrators and Antifa Follow the Guardian link. Fascinating confirmation of what we already gleaned from the news. Cops side with neo-nazis, white supremacists and the violent alt right terrorists and finger and prosecute counter demonstrators....
Posted: Fri Feb 9, 2018 7:27PM
Turning Point USA opens door for white supremacists on campus Turning Point USA is a racist, anti-feminist, anti-intellectual organization backed by billionaires, the NRA, and members of the fossil fuel industry. It has organizations at hundreds of high schools and college campuses. And the group uses dirty tricks to incite others on campus....
Posted: Wed Feb 7, 2018 11:51PM
A Year of Trump and Right-wing Populism In the GOP tax bill, $5 trillion is given to households with over $1 million income. Seniors, the poor, children and students are attacked. The severe cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, HUD, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, SNAP, food stamps, WIC food assistance, Pell grants, the EPA, the Department of Education, the National Institute for Health and the Legal Corporation are sadistic. Are we headed back to the 11th century when narcissism and illiteracy were accepted and not overcome?...
Posted: Mon Feb 5, 2018 4:27AM
The Future as Transformation There is no future with present-day capitalism. Capitalism stands for a movement of endless profit-making. Only a radical breach with the capitalist accumulaltion dynamic can nurture the hope of a reasonably tolerable future for human civilization on this planet. Climate change is not avoidable anymore today even if its cumulative effects are first expected in the middle of the millenium.
Ms. Mahnkopf is a professor of European social policy in Berlin....
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 4:33AM
Government Shutdown Solutions Could Leave Out Disaster Aid for Puerto Rico As the Senate and White House struggle to avert a government shutdown, US disaster victims from Puerto Rico to Texas worry a deal on relief and recovery aid will continue to be delayed....
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 10:58AM