The chief architects of the exercise in looting otherwise known as the post-crisis rescues are back promoting more of the same.
Read more...A drop-off in funding for vaccines for ‘diseases of poverty’ is another consequence of the financial crisis. A recent study laments bleak prospects for breakthroughs on malaria, tuberculosis, dengue, and other diseases. Climate change is expanding the range where these diseases may be contracted.
Read more...The first Ocean Cleanup Array is scheduled to launch from San Francisco Bay tomorrow. Target: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a major ocean plastic accumulation zone more than three times the size of France.
Read more...A conversation with Chris Hedges about his apocalyptic new book America: The Farewell Tour (Simon & Schuster, August 2018).
Read more...Inept political maneuvering by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has turned what was a longstanding controversy in Canada over Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline project into a complete and utter quagmire.
Read more...Talks kick off in New York on Tuesday to negotiate a UN treaty on the high seas by 2020; this would extend the existing law of the sea framework beyond each nation’s territorial waters.
Read more...To diversify from the euro-debt-crisis, the biggest Spanish banks pushed deeply into Emerging Markets. Now, they’re in a new crisis.
Read more...Vanautu is in the vanguard of commonwealth states moving to ban single-use plastic items, which are choking marine life, slowly poisoning fish (and those who eat them), and negatively affecting tourism.
Read more...Ten years later, Trump’s rise to power is a consequence of poor governance.
Read more...Why the currency crisis in Turkey is a due in part to the failure to take adequate corrective measures after the global financial crisis.
Read more...Stepping back to look at the Brexit trajectory.
Read more...The Turkish lira has been under significant pressure in recent weeks. What is the EU’s exposure to possible crisis in Turkey and how should the EU react?
Read more...Looking at who the media has silenced in the Trump era, such as critics of America’s wars and of Israel.
Read more...A look at how long and how deeply the US has been mired in its many wars.
Read more...A reading of what has changed since the crash and what problems remain.
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