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Tax Havens: Threat for Public Budgets The common good is abused. The struggle against tax havens is a struggle for the rule of law and democracy. Apple, Google, Amazon, Boeing, GE and scores of other corporations shift tens of billions to the Cayman Islands, Delaware, Switzerland and Lichtenstein. According to a 2013 article, one building in Wilmington, Delaware has 285,000 mail box firms. Corporations seem to have rights without responsibilities. Trust and public spirit are replaced by cynicism and resignation when corporation...
Posted: Mon, Apr 11, 2016 2:34am PDT
March 39 and counting… Nuit Debout and the new French uprising 
The spirit of resistance has captured the imagination of a new generation in France, as youth-led opposition to neoliberal labour “reforms” has spiralled into full-on rejection of the whole capitalist system on the street and squares....
Posted: Fri, Apr 8, 2016 8:32am PDT
French bank Societe Generale funding new #coal in Dominican Republic 
The Dominican Republic National Committee to Combat Climate Change (CNLCC) has written to French Bank Societe Generale, among others, over their funding of the new Punta Catalina coal plant. A contract was signed by the bank on 23 December 2015, just 11 days after the Paris Agreement on climate change was concluded at COP21. The coal project is mired from corruption allegations in Brazil affecting the firm contracted to build the plant, plus transparency allegations in the Dominican Republic,...
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2016 11:45pm PDT
How Much State Does the Social Market Economy Need? The use of property is only legitimate within the limits of the public interest. Whoever takes a risk must bear it and be liable for the losses. The state has the political task of laying down effective rules for risk assessment, liability and providing transparency. Distributive battles intensify in times of dwindling growth....
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2016 4:23am PDT
Puerto Rico Congressional Negotiations Intensify The House Committee on Natural Resources is poised to release the newest draft of Puerto Rico legislation amid tense negotiations....
Posted: Wed, Apr 6, 2016 3:17pm PDT
"Panama Papers" Release Highlights Need for US Shell Company Legislation More than 11 million leaked documents from a major Panama-based "off-shore" law firm reveal how the global financial system enables corruption and tax evasion....
Posted: Mon, Apr 4, 2016 1:26pm PDT
Politics in the Age of Acceleration and Sharing Why do international crises always come over us so suddenly, seemingly without any signal? This happens because we consistently ignore all the signs. We want to know everything in real time-and miss the big connections. No one worried whether or not the risks on the exchanges could be too great. No one took seriously the early warnings of economists Robert Shiller and Joseph Stiglitz. While they warned of the crash, the Red-Green German government blithely continued deregulating. Whoever...
Posted: Mon, Apr 4, 2016 4:34am PDT
Legal Support Needed at the RNC in Cleveland The 2016 Republican National Convention is being held in Cleveland July 18 - 21. This one's going to be a little different....
Posted: Tue, Mar 29, 2016 10:50am PDT
Capitalism as a Religion "Capital is the only god that the whole world knows, sees, touches, smells, tastes and excites all our senses. it is the only god that doesn't encounter any atheists" (Paul Lafargue's little known genial satire "Religion of Capital" from 1887.
Trust in the "invisible hand" is a trust in a religion that has a money god. Capital and its multiplication claim an all-determining authority. Only an enlightenment about the economy with the means of religion helps against a capitalism as religion. ...
Posted: Sun, Mar 27, 2016 4:16am PDT
Report Questions Florida Payday Lending Rules A new report by the Center for Responsible Lending says “payday” lending fees cost Florida residents $2.5 billion over the past decade....
Posted: Fri, Mar 25, 2016 8:03am PDT
Supreme Court Hears Puerto Rico Bankruptcy Case The US Supreme Court hears arguments on whether Puerto Rico's courts can restructure about $20 billion of the US territory's $72 billion debt....
Posted: Tue, Mar 22, 2016 7:35am PDT
Puerto Rico Governor Calls for Halt on Debt Lawsuits Puerto Rico's Governor Alejandro García Padilla says Congress should put a hold on litigation against the indebted US territory until a proposed Congressional solution to its debt crisis is in place....
Posted: Thu, Mar 17, 2016 1:13pm PDT
Argentina Lower House Repeals Laws to Support Hedge Fund Debt Deal Argentina's lower house of Congress voted 165-86 to repeal two laws that blocked the country from settling its decade-long debt dispute with a group of "hold-out" investors....
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2016 10:13am PDT
Ireland: 800 Year Political Struggle On the 100th anniversary of Ireland's revolution that partially freed that country from 800 years of British rule, the author's 1988 report that details the Crown Forces military terror tactics and the people resistance in the small city of Strabane....
Posted: Sun, Mar 13, 2016 9:27pm PDT
Radio Spots Focus on Puerto Rico Crisis Ahead of Sunshine State Presidential Primary Radio Spots Focus on Puerto Rico Crisis Ahead of Sunshine State Presidential Primary...
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2016 9:24am PST
Black Anarchism: A Reader 
In the expansive terrain of anarchist history, few events loom as large as the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Countless books, films, songs, pamphlets, buttons, t-shirts, and more are rightfully devoted to this transformative struggle for social revolution by Spanish workers and peasants. But digging through the mountain of available material, little can be found on black militants in the Spanish revolution, like the one featured in the powerful photo on the cover of this reader — a member of...
Posted: Wed, Mar 2, 2016 5:58pm PST
Why are the Lambs Silent? Techniques-fragmentation and propaganda-make serious violations of moral norms by the ruling elites morally and cognitively invisible to the population. With many examples, professor Mausfeld gives insight in the actual management of our democracy and how people are kept in apathy and in the illusion of being informed....
Posted: Mon, Feb 29, 2016 1:14pm PST
Jubilee USA Launches Puerto Rico Radio Spots Ahead of Super Tuesday The religious development coalition Jubilee USA is launching radio spots focused on Puerto Rico's debt crisis ahead of "Super Tuesday" presidential primary elections....
Posted: Fri, Feb 26, 2016 4:47pm PST
Demonstrators in More than 40 US Cities Protest Department of Justice Demands of Apple 
Demonstrators in more than 40 cities across the US rallied in front of Apple stores to protest the Department of Justice demand that Apple help hack an iPhone used by one of the San Bernadino shooters. One of the major rallies held on the February 23 national day of action was in front of FBI headquarters in Washington, DC....
Posted: Thu, Feb 25, 2016 2:44am PST
US Judge Plans to End Argentina Debt Sanctions US District Judge Thomas Griesa agreed to lift injunctions on Argentina that could pave the way to ending the country's decade-long debt dispute with "holdout" hedge funds....
Posted: Mon, Feb 22, 2016 7:59am PST
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