U.S.: A Credit Union to Bail Out People, Not Big Banks

January 22, 2012 By

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Judith Scherr SAN FRANCISCO, California, Jan 21, 2012 (IPS) – Occupy activists from Wall Street to San Francisco’s financial district have dramatised their anger with big financial institutions by blocking JP Morgan Chase Bank doorways, dancing atop Wells Fargo counters, pitching a tent in a Bank of [...]

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U.S.: "Money Isn’t Speech, Corporations Aren’t People"

January 22, 2012 By

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kanya D’Almeida NEW YORK, Jan 21, 2012 (IPS) – In most mainstream media the words "corruption" and "election fraud" accompany images of makeshift polling stations manned by armed guards in Burma or burning tires beside tattered ballot boxes in South Sudan – the insidiousness of stolen elections [...]

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INDIA: Advancing Economy Reveals a Hungry Underbelly

January 21, 2012 By

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By K.S. Harikrishnan THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, Jan 21, 2012 (IPS) – Even a year after Rani, a three-year-old tribal girl in the backward Wayanad district of southern Kerala state, was treated in a government hospital for gastroenteritis she remains grossly underweight and suffers from frequent bouts of diarrhoea. Rani [...]

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Banks Holding 1.4 Trillion, Could Create 19 Million Jobs

December 22, 2011 By

The Real News Network December 21, 2011 Bob Pollin: Study looks at impact of 1.4 trillion in excess liquid asset holdings if put in productive investments More at The Real News

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Eurozone Crisis Enters New Phase as ECB Fights Europe for Austerity

December 12, 2011 By

Repubished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Folha de São Paulo (Brazil), December 7, 2011 Read the article on the original site. By Mark Weisbrot The house is on fire and the owners are arguing about what kind of safety regulations should be implemented in the future so as to prevent these types of fires. [...]

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INEQUALITY DESTROYS LIVES

December 6, 2011 By

Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies Originally presented on  TEDtalksDirector  – Oct 24, 2011 We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when… Editor’s Note: Nothing could better reflect the purpose and orientation of this [...]

Filed Under: Development, Inequality, Social Justice, Video

OP-ED: Occupy Foreign Affairs

December 5, 2011 By

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By John Feffer* WASHINGTON, Dec 5, 2011 (IPS) – It’s not the topic of George Packer’s latest essay that’s particularly surprising. Inequality, he writes, is undermining democracy. Progressives have been hammering home this message for years if not decades. Nor is the choice of publication necessarily a shocker. [...]

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MEXICO: Deadly Cocktail of Sexual Violence and Impunity

November 23, 2011 By

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Nov 23, 2011 (IPS) – Sexual violence against women in Mexico is on the rise, alongside the escalation of violence between police and soldiers and the drug cartels, women’s rights activists warn. "We have seen an increase in sexual harassment, groping, gang rape, [...]

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From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Nation in just two months

November 23, 2011 By

This is a real populist movement–against our financial and political plutocracy Aricans who flew bombing missions in World War II had a saying: "You know you’re on target when you start getting a lot of flak." The protesters in today’s nascent "Occupy Wall Street" movement must really be on target, then, because–boy!–they’re enduring an unrelenting [...]

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Microfinance Works – For the Rich

November 18, 2011 By

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Raquel Martinez VALLADOLID, Spain, Nov 18, 2011 (IPS) – Jesús Guerra, a volunteer at this week’s Fifth Global Microcredit Summit in this Spanish town, was nonplussed by the expensive gold watch sported by a banker from a developing country. "When I volunteered to help at the Summit [...]

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