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IMF Reports Debt and Human Crises Drive Uneven Growth Global Stability and Economic Outlook Reports Released...
Posted: Wed, Apr 15, 2015 7:24am PDT
The Futile Attempt to Learn Why Philadelphia (and Your Hometown) Is Voting to Arm Nazis 
The US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to send guns to Ukrainian fascists. Getting a straight answer from your representative as to why, or even getting them to admit to that reality, is nearly impossible....
Posted: Tue, Apr 14, 2015 8:55pm PDT
Fast Track, TPP and TTIP Should Be Scrapped! How scandalous that communities and states should lose sovereignty to corporations! In the TTIP negotiated in secret, corporations can sue states for lost profits. The threat of a lawsuit can have a chilling effect on labor and environmental protective regulations. A parallel private arbitration system (ISDS) is created that privileges foreign investors over labor and the environment. Philip Morris, Violea, Vattenfall, Occidental, Pacific Rim and Metalclad are flagrant examples of profit ...
Posted: Mon, Apr 13, 2015 4:20am PDT
World Social Forum 2015 in Tunis Joins the Cry "Nous Sommes Bardo!" 
The World Social Forum in Tunis (24-28 March 2015) closes with resounding unity against global warming, neoliberalism, militarism, terrorism, and for the increasingly important role of women in making another world possible....
Posted: Sun, Apr 5, 2015 4:08am PDT
Urgent Action Alert: Mumia Abu-Jamal in Medical Center 
At 1pm EST today, Mumia Abu-Jamal had a medical emergency and was taken to the Intensive Care Unit at Schuylkill Medical Center in Pottsville, PA. We need your immediate help to make sure that Mumia's family will be able to visit him NOW....
Posted: Mon, Mar 30, 2015 3:16pm PDT
Hypocritical and Hippocratic Economic Policy in Europe The crisis is multilayered-a bank crisis, a crisis of wealth distribution and a misallocation of capital between long-term real investments and virtual financial investments, the latter without discernible social benefits...The frugal Schwabian housewife is not a suitable model for fiscal policy. The equation of public and private debt carrying-capacity is a classical fallacy from part to whole. What is right for individuals can be harmful for the whole... Politics should hold to empirical fa...
Posted: Wed, Mar 25, 2015 7:20am PDT
Indigenous Land conflict in Brazil – Support needed NOW 
The once ~5 to 6 million Indigenous People in Brazil are down to less than 1 million. And those brave survivors of a genocide machine of half a millennium are still being brutalized and deceived by state and parallel authorities. And while the media reports nothing on it, Indigenous people are fighting for survival, their legal lands and against spree killings right now. This is a brand new eyewitness report. And a plea for YOUR support!...
Posted: Tue, Mar 24, 2015 10:06am PDT
Growth, Prosperity and Quality of Life "Our understanding of a modern economic and social system is strongly influenced by the phase between 1950 and 1975 in West Germany when the social market economy was created and democracy was re-stabilized...Since then the economic, technical and political conditions have changed enormously nationally and internationally. New answers are necessary both to protect social and democratic achievements and to overcome new challenges resulting from finance capitalism, ecological endangerments and...
Posted: Wed, Mar 18, 2015 4:17am PDT
Growth Criticism and Social-Ecological Transformation Unlike a chair, an idea can be shared by a whole people. Words can be like spears breaking the frozen soul (Kafka). Economics as taught today is like brainwashing. Incentives for investing in the real economy are necessary after the phase of credit-bubble prosperity, after the inflation of the financial sector and the repression of alternatives and economic ethics. Possessions can possess us. A de-growth economy, an economy with low or no GDP growth, can be a future-friendly economy....
Posted: Mon, Mar 16, 2015 5:34am PDT
Israeli products burned by Palestinian boycott activists in West Bank city 
Following a recent call for a boycott of Israeli products, several residents of Nablus took things a bit further on Wednesday, March 11, when they set on fire a truckload of Israeli goods headed into the city....
Posted: Sun, Mar 15, 2015 12:39am PDT
Women Resist Occupation in Palestine and Kashmir (audio/mpeg 23.8MB) On International Women's Day, we talk with women resisting occupation in Kashmir and Palestine....
Posted: Sun, Mar 8, 2015 2:24pm PDT
PDAC Spoofed: It's funny because it's absurd; it's tragic because it's true 
Mining conference attendees hoodwinked with sarcastic take on PDAC's failed attempt at Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)...
Posted: Mon, Mar 2, 2015 10:29am PST
TPP negotiations to be held in Hawaii, March 9-16 The TransPacific Partnership(TPP) is hyped as the Pacific Rim's version of NAFTA(North Amer. Free Trade Agreement)that was passed during the Clinton regime. It consists of 12 Pacific nations--led by USA, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singpaore, and includes 6 other dependent nations like Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, Mexcio, Peru and Vietnam. The developed countries tout it as a"free trade" agreement that will add jobs and reduce tariffs, but in reality(especially because of the secrecy s...
Posted: Sun, Mar 1, 2015 7:38pm PST
Venezuela: To coups and economic sabotage answer with a revolutionary offensive! Bolivarian revolution...
Posted: Thu, Feb 26, 2015 2:28am PST
Hyatt "hotel" built in residential district in California by billionaire Pritzker family 
Billionaire Anthony Pritzker heir to the Hyatt Hotel family fortune built a 53,000 square foot home completely under the radar. This home which looks like a grand hotel resort and spa is actually home to him, his wife and three kids. He built his own private "Hyatt Hotel" in Bel Air, California in a residential district so he could throw huge lavish commercial events. How was he able to build this without public review? Contacts and campaign contributions....
Posted: Thu, Feb 19, 2015 3:42pm PST
TTIP: Trifling Economic Advantages at the Cost of Democracy and the Public Interest The controversial investment-protection agreement establishes a parallel justice giving security to all investors.. The states would be liable for compensations for any lower profits.. The state and local governments could not pass any laws or regulations that could have a negative impact on the profits of businesses. Our democracy could become a paper tiger.. We all know our planet can only survive when we do everything in our power for a sustainable economy in all areas....
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2015 5:04am PST
The Catastrophe has Already Begun Capitalist growth has become the problem, promotes famines and strangles full employment. Can the world be rescued? Mass unemployment has never lasted as long as today; global problems increase. Jean Jacques Rousseau said: "Distribution means no one is so rich he can buy others and no one is so poor he must sell himself." A change of consciou9sness is necessary so the population strives energetically for distribution justice. The young generation is socialized today under conditions where m...
Posted: Mon, Feb 16, 2015 5:51am PST
Cherán K’eri: Political parties are dead to us in this town 
In April, the Purépecha municipality of Cherán K’eri, Michoacán is celebrating four years of its uprising to end organized crime in its territory....
Posted: Thu, Feb 12, 2015 3:07pm PST
George Orwell in the Government Writing in 1948 off the coast of Scotland, George Orwell foresaw the time when war would become a domestic necessity to divert the people from economic contradictions. Newspeak is used so lies are called truth and slavery is called freedom. Public squalor exists alongside private affluence. Lobbyists write laws and representatives spend their time fundraising, dialing for dollars. Private losses become public losses as risk managers turned out to be risk creators....
Posted: Tue, Feb 10, 2015 5:56am PST
Order prevails in Cairo On January 25, 2011, in the context of the "Arab Spring", the first of a series of waves of unrest broke out in Cairo......
Posted: Thu, Feb 5, 2015 7:03am PST
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