By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Jan 19 2017 (IPS) – The 193-member UN General Assembly has been dragging its feet on a proposal that has been kicked around the corridors of the United Nations for over 10 years: a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) providing journalists the “right…
By Vijay Prashad / AlterNet Secretary of Defense James Mattis and his National Security Advisor Mike Flynn have a bizarre obsession with Iran. Gunfire broke out in Tehran, Iran’s capital, on Monday. A drone flew over the city and provoked anti-aircraft fire.
By Baher Kamal Article I of a three-part series focuses on the alarmingly deepening inequality. Part II deals with the staggering impact of inequality on women, and Part III with the future and quality of jobs.
Oxfam – Published: 18 January 2016 The Oxfam report An Economy for the 1%, shows that the wealth of the poorest half of the world’s population has fallen by a trillion dollars since 2010, a drop of 38 percent. This has occurred despite the global population increasing by around…
The Following three pieces, published in Project Syndicate, bring the insights of three high caliber scholars on the global economic challenges of this Trumpian era we are now entering. Trumpian Uncertainty JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ* NEW YORK – Every January, I try to craft a forecast…
Michael Krieger – Liberty Blitzkrieg blog DAVOS MAN: “A soulless man, technocratic, nationless and cultureless, severed from reality. The modern economics that undergirded Davos capitalism is equally soulless, a managerial capitalism that reduces economics to mathematics and…
Other News brings you two stories that highlight the growing connections among Far-Right forces in Europe and the US: Some are in power, others aspire to it, are we witnessing an Alt-Right International in the making? Breitbart’s Man in Rome: A Gentle Voice in a Strident Chorus…
Other news brings you three perspectives on the issue of a guaranteed basic income: “Guaranteed annual income – a Big Idea whose time has yet to arrive” by Glen Hodgson in iPolitics; “An Unconditional Citizen’s Income” by Ursula Huws in Socialist Project; “Universal Basic Income…
By Baher Kamal ROME, Jan 2017 (IPS) – When pro-nuclear disarmament organisations last October cheered the United Nations decision to start in 2017 negotiations on a global treaty banning these weapons, they probably did not expect that shortly after the US would elect Republican…
Ann Pettifor The Independent Online Economics is driven by ideology – it is ideology, not science, which drives them to assert that bank bailouts are tolerable but policies that protect the poor aren’t. Unsurprisingly, these flawed theories and models are a great comfort to…
