Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gustavo Capdevila GENEVA, May 10, 2012 (IPS) – An expert body of the United Nations has warned the Spanish government that the severe budget cutbacks it is applying must not undermine its commitment to upholding the economic, social and cultural rights of the country’s people. Austerity measures [...]
U.N. Warns of Social Fall-Out from Spain’s Austerity Plan
May 10, 2012 By editors
Filed Under: Economic Crisis, Featured, Inequality, Social Justice, Unrest Tagged With: Austerity, Neoliberalism, Spain
Cashew Producers’ Pain Is Intermediaries’ Gain in Senegal
May 3, 2012 By editors
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Koffigan E. Adigbli ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal, May 3, 2012 (IPS) – Cashew nut growers in the southern Senegalese region of Casamance are complaining bitterly that intermediaries are cutting them out of a fair share of the profits. The Casamance region produced 40 million dollars worth of cashews in [...]
Filed Under: Africa, Agriculture, Featured, Social Justice Tagged With: Senegal
Business20 Makes Its Weight Felt at G20 Meeting
April 20, 2012 By editors
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico, Apr 19, 2012 (IPS) – The concerns of the business community basically monopolised the first day of the meeting of trade and economy ministers of the G20 group of industrialised and emerging countries in this Mexican resort city Thursday. The meeting of [...]
Filed Under: Analysis, Development, Economic Policy, Economy, Environment, Social Justice Tagged With: Business, Neoliberalism, Sustainable Development
U.S.: A Credit Union to Bail Out People, Not Big Banks
January 22, 2012 By editors
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 [...]
Filed Under: Commentary, Finance, Politics, Social Justice, United States Tagged With: Banking, Cooperatives, Credit
U.S.: "Money Isn’t Speech, Corporations Aren’t People"
January 22, 2012 By editors
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 [...]
Filed Under: Featured, Human Rights, Inequality, Justice, Media, Social Justice, United States Tagged With: Corporations, Corruption, Democracy
Eurozone Crisis Enters New Phase as ECB Fights Europe for Austerity
December 12, 2011 By editors
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. [...]
Filed Under: Economic Crisis, Europe, Featured, Finance, Social Justice, United States Tagged With: Austerity, Eurozone
INEQUALITY DESTROYS LIVES
December 6, 2011 By editors
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 editors
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. [...]
Filed Under: Economic Crisis, Featured, Foreign Affairs, Media, Politics, Social Justice, United States Tagged With: Protest
From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Nation in just two months
November 23, 2011 By editors
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 [...]
Filed Under: Economic Crisis, Finance, Noteworthy, Politics, Social Justice, United States, Unrest Tagged With: Occupy Wall Street, Protest
U.S.: Occupy Wall Street Activists Vow to Fight On
November 15, 2011 By editors
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ben Case NEW YORK, Nov 15, 2011 (IPS) – After two months of holding New York City’s Zuccotti Park despite repeated threats of eviction, Occupy Wall Street (OWS) activists were forcibly removed from the site by hundreds of police in riot gear early Tuesday morning. OWS media [...]
Filed Under: Featured, Politics, Social Justice, United States Tagged With: Activism
