By Amy Goodman and Juan González – Democracy Now! (*) We go to Havana, Cuba, to look at what is behind protests that brought thousands of people into the streets of Havana and other cities in rare anti-government protests denouncing the island’s economic crisis during the…
By Alina Utrata* – Boston Review Billionaires such as Musk, Bezos, and Branson peddle the idea that space represents a public hope, all the while reaping big private profits Having made enormous fortunes on Earth, billionaires are now racing each other to space. Former Amazon…
By Anis Chowdhury/Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 13 2021 (IPS) – ‘No one is protected from the global pandemic until everyone is’ has become a popular mantra. But vaccine apartheid worldwide, due to rich countries’ policies, has made COVID-19 a developing…
Riccardo Petrella* – Agora of the Earth’s Inhabitants ATTAC-Europe’s appeal to the G20-Finance deserves attention. Here are two reflections. The first is of a general tactical nature.
Posted by Yves Smith – Naked Capitalism Yves here. Yanis Varoufakis puts a name, techno-feudalism, on the widespread shifts in economic power relationships.
By Jacek Bartosiak * -Geopolitical Futures A theory used to explain the Peloponnesian War can also be applied to the growing tensions between the U.S. and China Roughly 2,400 years ago, Thucydides, a Greek historian and author of “History of the Peloponnesian War,”…
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 29 2021 (IPS) – Too many have swallowed the myth that lowering corporate income tax (CIT) is necessary to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) for growth. Although contradicted by their own research…
By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! More than 2.6 billion COVID-19 vaccines have been administered worldwide, but many countries have yet to see a single shot amid mounting infections.
By Rosie Walters* – The Conversation At a time of so much focus on how women are held back and treated unfairly, corporations spend multiple millions telling us what they are doing to empower women and girls. When this makes them seem more women-friendly than they really are…
By Simon Jenkins* – The Guardian Before world leaders met in Cornwall, finance ministers had made an agreement that could spell the end of tax havens G7 summits nowadays are mostly fields of the cloth of gold. They are about showing off, with Boris Johnson in full Henry VIII rig.
