Economy / Finance

Time for the World Bank and IMF to Be the Solution, Not the Problem

By Franciscka Lucien and Joel Curtain

By Franciscka Lucien and Joel Curtain (*) PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti and BOSTON, May 7 2020 (IPS) – The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have a historic opportunity to help stabilize a world reeling from COVID-19. Doing so will require the institutions to change…

8 May 2020 · 4 min read

authoritarianism

Freedom House: Hungary downgraded from democracy to "hybrid regime"

InsightHungary!!! (*) – Budapest Hungary has ceased to be a democracy and can now be qualified as a “hybrid regime”, according to the 2020 Nations in Transit report from US-based NGO Freedom House. The report, which examined 29 former Soviet and Eastern Bloc countries…

7 May 2020 · 6 min read

Civil Society

Do not abuse science for corona politics

Cees Hamelink’s Opinion* Government policy is based on expert advice. But experts are not scientists, argues Cees Hamelink. As a scientist it is of course gratifying for me to hear that government policy on covid-19 takes science seriously.

7 May 2020 · 4 min read

Economy / Finance

'There is a glimmer of hope': economists on coronavirus and capitalism

Yanis Varoufakis and David McWilliams – The Guardian Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and Irish economist David McWilliams on the hope for a global new deal David McWilliams: I think it is fair to say that capitalism – in the course of this unprecedented crisis…

6 May 2020 · 8 min read

Economy / Finance

Europe Wobbles

By Bill Blain — The Morning

By Bill Blain* – The Morning Porridge “Let us sing more cheerful songs, more songs full of joy!” I am wondering if my FT App is broken? I opened it this morning and the front pages of the Pink Un didn’t rate the German Constitutional Court’s stab in the back of the ECB an…

6 May 2020 · 6 min read

Health

Dr. Fauci Dismisses Wuhan Lab as Source of Coronavirus, Contradicting Trump and Pompeo

By Daniel Villarreal — Newsweek

By Daniel Villarreal – Newsweek Dr. Anthony Fauci, the scientific face of America’s pandemic response, dismissed the theory that coronavirus originated in a lab in Wuhan, contradicting the president and his Secretary of State in an escalating confrontation with China. “The best…

5 May 2020 · 6 min read

Civil rights

“PANDEMICS — LESSONS LOOKING BACK FROM 2050”

Fritjof Capra and Hazel Henderson (*) – ETHICAL MARKETS MEDIA Imagine, it is the year 2050 and we are looking back to the origin and evolution of the coronavirus pandemic over the last three decades. Extrapolating from recent events, we offer the following scenario for…

5 May 2020 · 15 min read

Corruption

Bolsonaro Fights for Survival, Turning to Empowered Military Elders

By Ernesto Londoño, Letícia Casado and Manuela Andreoni — The New York

By Ernesto Londoño*, Letícia Casado and Manuela Andreoni – The New York Times A flailing leader has given Brazil’s generals an opening to insert themselves onto the front lines of politics. RIO DE JANEIRO — Jair Bolsonaro ascended to Brazil’s presidency with…

4 May 2020 · 9 min read

Economy / Finance

Crushing the States, Saving the Banks: The Fed’s Generous New Rules

By Ellen Brown — Creative Common

By Ellen Brown* – Creative Common The new terms could be harnessed for local governments to own and operate their own banks. Congress seems to be at war with the states.

4 May 2020 · 9 min read

Commerce

Fumiyasu Akegawa, Chairman of DEVNET INTERNATIONAL

by DEVNET JAPAN Mr. Fumiyasu Akegawa In March 2013, I established Devnet Tokyo, now Devnet Japan, as the East Asian country’s sole branch of Devnet International, which, since 1995, enjoys a Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

2 May 2020 · 4 min read