By Ellen Brown*- ScheerPost A small financial transactions tax could correct a number of maladies in our economic system, from the federal debt crisis to the widening wealth divide to the rampant financialization of the economy, while eliminating taxes on income and sales. The…
By David Goeßmann* – Truthout The international guaranteed rights of refugees are eroding on both sides of the Atlantic. The European Union is waging war on refugees.
By Ian Bremmer* GZERO Media/ Jess Frampton (This article is the response of Jan Bremmer, President and Founder of GZERO Media to an article published in Othernews by Jeffrey Sachs. The function of Othernews is to stimulate debate and reflection. We therefore publish Jan…
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies (*) – CODEPINK When Japan invited the leaders of Brazil, India and Indonesia to attend the G7 summit in Hiroshima, there were glimmers of hope that it might be a forum for these rising economic powers from the Global South to discuss their…
By Rebecca Ratcliffe* – The Guardian Special rapporteur Olivier De Shutter calls for action on neglected crisis after finding ‘absolutely terrible’ conditions on visit to Cox’s Bazar camps in Bangladesh Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are at risk of becoming “the new…
By Naseem Javed* – modernDiplomacy Measuring BRICS in single decades, in 2001, BRIC started as an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, and China; Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill claimed that by 2050 the four BRIC economies would come to dominate the global economy. So South…
By Bob Lord*- CounterPunch website We’ll never, as a nation, take on the ultra-rich if millions of Americans identify with them. It’s been a full decade now since I first predicted — warned, to be a bit more precise — that America would have its first trillionaire before 2040.
Fumiyasu Akegawa, Chair & CEO DEVNET International/Japan The G7 Summit held in Hiroshima was a great success for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. President Joe Biden, whose participation in the summit was temporarily in doubt, came to…
By Conor Gallagher- Naked Capitalism Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has another five years in power after defeating opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu in Sunday’s runoff election. Kilicdaroglu was in the impossible position of trying to make up ground by simultaneously…
By Kristian Laubjerg* – MEER Tanks displayed for observation. It is always a simple matter to drag the people along. …. All you have to do is to tell them, they are being attacked. (Reich Marshall Hermann Göring at the Nuremberg Trials) Background Philosophers…
