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The Burning Earth: how conquest and carnage have decimated landscapes worldwide

Click here to view original web page at www.nature.com An epic exploration of human history examines how the poor and...

The Dream and the Nightmare of Neoliberalism

Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com The spread of neoliberalism promised economic efficiency and freedom ...

Big Pharma Is a Big Menace to Global Health

Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com Pharmaceutical companies claim their profits are necessary for vital medical research,...

The Rich Want You to Fear Tax Fairness

Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com Canada raised its capital gains tax inclusion rate, sparking outrage ...

How Extreme Heat Intensifies Health Problems and Hunger

Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug 19 2024 (IPS) - In May, temperatures soared...

Developing tax rules for a globalised world

Click here to view original web page at www.socialeurope.eu The European Union can be the biggest winner from the ...

How Neoliberalism is blocking green growth

Click here to view original web page at www.socialeurope.eu Climate change is a global challenge, yet trade rules do not allow developing countries to break...

Joseph Stiglitz and the Limits of Liberal Freedom

Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com Review of The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society by Joseph E. Stiglitz (W....

Top economist pitches global billionaire tax to G20 finance leaders

Click here to view original web page at www.icij.org The coordinated push would tax the world’s ultrarich 2% of their wealth annually, and...

Wealthy countries push back as UN moves ahead with global tax fairness

Click here to view original web page at www.icij.org A minority of countries that opposed a legally binding U.N. tax convention ...

New Sierra Club Report: Trading Away Our Climate Exposes How Trade Pacts Undermine Climate Action

Click here to view original web page at www.commondreams.org Report Urges Elimination of ISDS Provisions, Calls for ...

U.S. DOJ Files Suit to Break Up Live Nation-Ticketmaster in Historic Victory for Fans, Artists, Live Events

Click here to view original web page at www.commondreams.org The Department of Justice Antitrust Division today filed an extensive antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation-Ticketmaster for...

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From Climate Crisis to Polycrisis

Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org Climate change, resource depletion, extreme weapons, AI, and more: ...

Putting the eco back in economy

Click here to view original web page at www.nationalobserver.com The language lovers among you will know that economy and ecology are twins, born and raised...

Draining the World of Fresh Water

Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org “When you drink the water, remember the spring.”— Ancient Chinese proverb The thirst of humans and our...

Does TikTok pose a security threat to Canadians?

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Concerns about the threats TikTok poses to privacy and liberty were raised again, as a bill...

Tech Titans Are the Robber Barons of Our Gilded Age

Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com The tech bros are fighting again. Last week, Apple blocked Epic Games from accessing ...

The Problem With Finance Is the Problem of Post-Industrial Capitalism

Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com It is today all but taken for granted by political figures from Hillary Clinton to Bernie...

Waters of Conflict

Click here to view original web page at fpif.org Is there a place for hydro power in a warming world? Originally published in TomDispatch. We live in...

ArriveCAN should drive deeper reforms, not just contracting oversight

Click here to view original web page at policyoptions.irpp.org Auditor general Karen Hogan painted a clear picture of mismanagement around the ArriveCAN app in her...

Why Private Investment Isn’t Driving a Rapid Green Transition

Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com An interview with Brett Christophers. Interview by Cal Turner and Sara Van Horn Declining renewable...

Welfare rates now $200/month below the Harris cuts of 1995

Click here to view original web page at spon.ca “If you spend $650 a month on rent and your maximum Ontario Works (OW) allowance ...

World Bank Enables Private Capture of Profits, Public Resources

Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net The World Bank insists commercial finance is necessary for achieving economic recovery and the Sustainable Development...

We Can’t Grow Numb to Reports That the Rich Are Getting Obscenely Richer

Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com Reports continue to reveal the thriving fortunes of the wealthy, which surged during the course of...

COVID and Capitalism

Click here to view original web page at briarpatchmagazine.com Will anyone remember COVID-19? Already in 2023, one senses a strong reluctance to dwell on it....

Crack-Up Capitalism: A Review

Click here to view original web page at afhimelfarb.wordpress.com In this engrossing historical account, Quinn Slobodian lays out how a few very rich ...

Rethinking globalisation in an age of crises

Click here to view original web page at www.socialeurope.eu We need to find a path to peaceful coexistence and co-operation, ...

Sacrifice Zones’: The New ‘Jim Crow’ That’s Sickening and Killing People of Color

Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org This article was produced by Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media...

The Human Cost of a Green Energy Transition Without Safeguards

Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Oct 2 2023 (IPS) - The world is moving away from...

The OECD and the Great Monetary Restriction

Click here to view original web page at www.socialeurope.eu Stubborn attachment to monetary tightening as the cure for inflation will needlessly sacrifice economic activity and...

Interest rates: Monetary policy is always political as central banks opt to back the financial sector

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com As the Bank of Canada prepared to announce its decision on interest rates in early September,...

A Real Opening for Change

Click here to view original web page at www.dissentmagazine.org Neoliberal ideas and institutions are still with us, but ...

Canadian diplomacy needs to find its way back from the wilderness

Click here to view original web page at policyoptions.irpp.org Among Canadian foreign-policy watchers, it has become a cliché to say that Canada has lost influence...

How to Defeat Poilievre’s Politics of Abandonment

Click here to view original web page at thetyee.ca Take every chance to debunk these six false...

Refugee Law Must Adapt to a World Where the Effects of Climate Change Rival Those of War

Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com Recent footage of hundreds dead and thousands fleeing destruction depicts scenes that could have come from...

Isabella Weber’s Insights Have Neoliberal Economists Running Scared

Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com For two years, the entire world has fixated on inflation. Instead of welcoming the revival ...

Canadian news media skirts responsibility for falling trust

Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca Facing a dire situation, legacy media evaluates every angle but theirs. The Canadian news industry is in...

European Authorities Refuse to Save Migrants From Drowning — So Ordinary Citizens Are Doing It Instead

Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com Since 2015, the European Union and its member states have increasingly failed to conduct sea-rescue operations...

Social-assistance rates in Ontario should ‘set off alarm bells’: Report

Click here to view original web page at www.tvo.org A recent analysis finds that Ontario Works recipients would need ...

The Bankers Dilemma: The Decision to Raise or not Raise Interest Rates

The paramount responsibility of the Bank of Canada’s (Boc) is to promote the economic and financial well-being of Canadians. Ensuring inflation at a target...
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