Debunking “free trade” and other spurious defenses of the multinational enrichment, democracy stripmining programs known as the Trade in Services Agreement, the TransPacific Partnership, and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
Read more...Consensus decision-making, a process in which groups come to agreement without voting, has been a central feature of direct action movements for nearly 40 years. It has also not worked very well.
Read more...Having the US do the cleanup on FIFA exposes how lax prosecutors were elsewhere, above all in Germany and Switzerland.
Read more...As we’ve said, Greece’s creditors are continuing to demand that Greece give in on the two key sticking points in negotiations, that of pension and labor market “reform”
Read more...America’s current leadership has failed to grasp the significance of a radical global change underway inside the Eurasian land mass. If China succeeds in linking its rising industries to the vast natural resources of the Eurasian heartland, then quite possibly, as Sir Halford Mackinder predicted on that cold London night in 1904, “the empire of the world would be in sight.”
Read more...Some observers thought that Greece might get a break in the G-7 summit this weekend. While the G-7 has one more day to run, the statements coming out of the summit strongly and uniformly back the creditor position.
Read more...Technology advances have hollowed out middle-skill jobs, often forcing those workers into less-well-paid work. That trend is set to intensify.
Read more...Sam Daley-Harris explains why he thinks grass roots activism can succeed even in a post Citizens United world. He has over 40 years of training activists, and perhaps more important, of helping them set up structures to enable them to be effective.
Read more...Greece has already offered to continue with a program of significant austerity. No wonder the creditors are close to agreeing to that part of the government’s proposal.
Read more...Fast Track is not just a path to TPP … it’s evil all on its own. There’s now another leaked “trade” deal, called TISA, and Fast Track will “fast-track” that one too. Want your municipal water service privatized? How about your government postal service? Read on
Read more...Why both Keynes and Minsky regarded low interest rates as poor policy.
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