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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
CHINA: Only Business Occupies Shanghai
November 16, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Antoaneta Becker SHANGHAI, Nov 16, 2011 (IPS) – As China’s financial centre and a pinnacle of domestic wealth, Shanghai could have been in the forefront of a home-grown movement against income disparity of the like sweeping New York’s Wall Street and London’s City. Instead it remains a [...]
MALAWI: Tax on the Poor Is to Compensate for Tariff Revenue Loss
June 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Claire Ngozo LILONGWE, Jun 23, 2011 (IPS) – The decision by the Malawian government to introduce value-added tax (VAT) of up to 16.5 percent on products such as bread, meat, milk and dairy products is being blamed for losses incurred by small-scale businesses. The move comes in [...]
Michael Hudson – Europe’s Financial Class War Against Labor, Industry and Government
May 25, 2011 By
Originally Presented on Guns and Butter June 16, 2010 Read recent articles by Michael Hudson.
