By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ * – The New York Times A secretive group met behind closed doors in New York this week. What they decided may lead to higher drug prices for you and hundreds of millions around the world.… Continue Reading
by ERIC DRAITSER* – CounterPunch The most entertaining mysteries are the ones with compelling protagonists, enigmatic and often surreptitious antagonists, and surprising or shocking conclusions. Indeed, without these essential elements, one is unlikely to read the story at all. However,… Continue Reading
Paul Krugman* – The New York Times In the five years (!) that have passed since the euro crisis began, clear thinking has been in notably short supply. But that fuzziness must now end. Recent events in Greece pose a… Continue Reading
By Leonardo Padura* HAVANA, Jan 2015 (IPS) – All Cubans, on either side of the Florida Straits, but in places like Spain, France or Greenland ? where there must be a couple of Cubans ? as well felt it was… Continue Reading
Paul Krugman – The New York Times Markets are panicking. It?s important to understand that this is not a verdict on the new Greek government, or at any rate only the new Greek government; it?s a judgment that the risk… Continue Reading
John Feffer – TomDispatch.com. The complex federal project of the EU has proven fragile in the absence of a strong external threat. Europe won the Cold War. Not long after the Berlin Wall fell a quarter of a century ago,… Continue Reading
Paul Krugman ? The New York Times How should we think about the bargaining that may or may not now take place between the new Greek government and the troika? (No bargaining if the troika basically says no concessions.) Most… Continue Reading
Naked Capitalism – Posted by Yves Smith By Nicholas Shaxson. Adapted from a post by the Tax Justice Network. If people stash their wealth or earn income overseas, that is just fine ? as long as their tax authorities get… Continue Reading
Jon Henley in Athens – The Guardian Greece set to clash with EU as economics post goes to radical who described austerity measures as ?fiscal waterboarding? Greece?s new leftist prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, is set to announce his anti-bailout government,… Continue Reading
Luke Harding – The Guardian Europe?s top rights body says scale of NSA spying is ?stunning? and suggests UK powers may be at odds with rights convention Europe?s top rights body has said mass surveillance practices are a fundamental threat… Continue Reading
Paul Krugman* – The New York Times Alexis Tsipras, leader of the left-wing Syriza coalition, is about to become prime minister of Greece. He will be the first European leader elected on an explicit promise to challenge the austerity policies… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio ROME, Jan (IPS) Every day we receive striking data on major issues which should create tumult and action, but life goes on as if those data had nothing to do with people?s lives.
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Jan 23 2015 (IPS) – When the East African nation of Somalia, once described as a ?lawless state?, ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) early this week, it left two countries… Continue Reading
By Charlotte Alfred – The Huffington Post Greece will vote in parliamentary elections on Sunday, nearly one month after Prime Minister Antonis Samaras was forced to call a snap vote after parliament failed to agree on a new president.
Thomas B. Edsall – The New York Times Key Democrats have reached agreement on a set of policies known as ?inclusive capitalism?: a forceful market-oriented economic agenda intended to counter inequality, restrain the accrual of vast wealth at the top… Continue Reading
By Emile Nakhleh* WASHINGTON, Jan 2015 (IPS) – The horrific terrorist attack on the French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo has once again raised the question about violence and Islam. Why is it, some ask, that so much terrorism has been… Continue Reading
Manifesto of economists ? In The Guardian As economists, we note that the historical evidence demonstrates the futility and dangers of imposing unsustainable debt and repayment conditions on debtor countries; the negative impact of austerity policies on weakening economies; and… Continue Reading
By Noam Chomsky* After the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo, which killed 12 people including the editor and four other cartoonists, and the murder of four Jews at a kosher supermarket shortly after, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared “a… Continue Reading
GillianTett – Financial Times To some, Germany faces a moral duty to help Greece, given the aid that it has previously enjoyed As the crucial election looms in Greece later this month, newspapers have been full of pictures of demonstrations… Continue Reading
James Moore – The Independent According to Oxfam, on current trends the richest 1 per cent of the world?s population will have a greater share of its wealth than the remaining 99 per cent within two years. The figures were… Continue Reading
