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Street protests propagate across borders. The results point to social media as a vehicle for contagion.
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US Corporations a Driving Force Behind ‘Unprecedented Wave’ of Global Land Privatization: Report
This Oakland Institute study documents how the neoliberal project proceeds, with US interests pushing to privatize land in the Global South.
Read more...Save the Tiger, Shift to other Big Cats: Illegal Wildlife Trafficking and the Rise in Zoonotic Diseases
Second UN Office on Drugs and Crime World Wildife Crime Report connects illegal wildlife trade to increase in zoonotic diseases.
Read more...Financialization: Tackling the Other Virus
The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to tackle another virus that has spread throughout the world since the 1970s: financialization.
Read more...Why Relentless Labor Rights Enforcement Will Make or Break the New NAFTA
Why Nafta 2.0 labor protections for Mexicans are key to whether the deal delivers on its promise to US workers.
Read more...Brexit: Running Down the Clock?
Brexit is not going much of anywhere, and it still isn’t clear if this is by accident or design.
Read more...COVID-19 ‘Please Tell Me My Life Is Worth A LITTLE Of Your Discomfort,’ Nurse Pleads
A nurse speaks from one of the Covid-19 mask battlegrounds.
Read more...Can Davos Man Punch the “Great Reset” Button?
The World Economics Forum asks for trouble next year, both ideologically and institutionally.
Read more...How Largely Hidden Trends Are Shattering the Global Trade System
Howy national conflicts, new concerns about security and supply chain risk, and technology are reshaping trade networks to be closer to home.
Read more...We Won’t Have a Truly Global Economy Until We Tax It That Way
Tax is an enormously powerful tool for shaping economic policy and thus bears close watching.
Read more...The Best Law Capital Can Buy
A review of the important new book “The Code of Capital: How the law creates wealth and inequality.”
Read more...Let’s Make Sure We Get the Green New Deal Right
vid-19 throws a wrench in many of the assumptions underlying existing Green New Deal proposals.
Read more...Reviving the Economy, Creating the ‘New Normal’
Covid-19 rescues will reshape the economy, as we see in the US, with fat cats getting fatter. Will other countires make sounder choices?
Read more...Automation, Globalisation, and Vanishing Jobs
A new take on how automation and offshoring affect employment.
Read more...Coronavirus Recovery: Why Local Markets are Key to Reviving Our Locked Down Town Centres
Local markets, not supermarkets, are a key part of reviving city centres as the UK emerges from its coronavirus lockdown.
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