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At The Crossroads

We live in turbulent times. Rarely in history have we faced such deep divisions and the need for a profoundly different path. Our political and economic institutions are failing us. They appear to lack a moral compass grounded in safeguarding and extending human rights, strengthening and supporting community and protecting the planet.

Our market dominated economy creates greater concentrations of wealth and income inequality while people’s most basic needs are left unmet. Our systems of productive and distribution are both incredibly wasteful and threaten the survival of the planet. We can and must do better, and do many things differently.

The choices we make in the next two decades must take us on a new path. They will determine our success in creating a world of peace, prosperity, and health for all that is both life affirming and ecologically sustainable for future generations.

Putting profit before life is a recipe for disaster

David Suzuki and Ian Hanington - 0
Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca ...
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The Global South Must Be at the Center of the Making of a Just Global Economic Order

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò an interview with Daniela Gabor and Ndongo Samba Sylla - 0
Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com The US-dominated economic order constructed after Bretton Woods did not take...
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How not to deal with a debt crisis

Jayati Ghosh - 0
Click here to view original web page at www.socialeurope.eu Jayati Ghosh warns against historically disastrous approaches to the sovereign-debt crisis...
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Doing anti-imperialist journalism while the world marches to war

Alex Cosh - 0
Click here to view original web page at briarpatchmagazine.com When I published an article by Humber College professor Tyler Shipley...
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‘The System’ Is Ruining Our Present and Collective Future

Peter Montague - 0
Click here to view original web page at www.commondreams.org Now is a time of unprecedented opportunity for progressive change....
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Central Bank Capitalism Is Forcing the Global South Into a Debt Crisis

Robin Jaspert - 0
Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com The current policies of the European Central Bank (ECB) and the...
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Creeping civil society curbs threaten human rights in Europe in 2023

Democracy in Crisis Benjamin Ward - 0
Click here to view original web page at euobserver.com Civil society organisations, including groups that work to protect human rights, are under growing threat in...
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How workers are being sacrificed both intentionally and needlessly to a doctrine keeping unemployment high

Inequality Jim Stanford - 0
Click here to view original web page at www.thestar.com The economy risks serious recession from an interest shock that was neither necessary, nor effective in...
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How equity, diversity and inclusion policies are becoming a tool for capitalism

Inequality Aryan Karimi - 0
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com In capitalistic economies like those in the West, wealth and status accumulation often drive our every...
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Global Risks in 2022: The Year of Colliding Consequences

Failing Global Systems Jens Orback - 0
Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net The impacts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are still rippling outwards, colliding and combining like waves...
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This Planet Is Drying Up. These Are the Consequences

Failing Global Systems Baher Kamal - 0
Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net Drought is one of the ‘most destructive’ natural disasters in terms of the loss of life,...
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The UK is in a crisis of living standards, not public finances

Inequality Alfie Stirling and Dominic Caddick - 0
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Click here to view original web page at policyalternatives.ca On November 15, the CCPA joined more than 380 civil society organizations from over 60 countries...

‘Wilful Ignorance’: Indigenous Delegation Incredulous At Bankers’ Attitude to Fossil Fuel Impacts

Institutional Barriers Matthew Green -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org Indigenous delegates said they had been amazed at the “wilful ignorance” they encountered when demanding global...

Global grain giants made huge profits as hunger nearly tripled. Its time to take them apart

Failing Global Systems Pat Mooney -
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Austerity: A Raging Storm for the Developing World that We Can Avoid

Inequality Matti Kohonen and Isabel Ortiz -
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Interest Rate Hikes Will Make Climate Change Worse

Institutional Barriers Lukasz Krebel -
Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com The UK government has not had a very good few weeks. With the now-sacked chancellor’s “mini...

The oil industry’s Frankenstein

Democracy in Crisis Simon Enoch -
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World Food Day 2022: Call to Action as 828 Million People Go Hungry

Inequality Naureen Hossain -
Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net World Food Day is celebrated on October 16, 2022, with the theme Leave NO ONE behind....

High interest rates are creating a recession we don’t need or want

Failing Global Systems Jim Stanford -
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Claims That Capitalism Is Eradicating Global Poverty Are Wildly Misleading

Failing Global Systems Jag Bhalla -
Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com Fans of our current global economic order often justify it by claims of great progress in...

Global Inequality: Don’t Look Up!

Inequality Francine Mestrum -
Click here to view original web page at www.globalsocialjustice.info Today, inequality is high on the international agenda. After the hype on poverty – Millennium Development...

The Petro Elite Were Warned of Climate Calamity in 1959

Failing Global Systems Geoff Dembicki -
Click here to view original web page at thetyee.ca Among them was Sun Oil head Robert Dunlop, who proceeded to exploit the tarsands of Alberta....

Big Oil’s capture of IPCC assessment for policymakers ‘shakes our faith’ (commentary)

Failing Global Systems Lindley Mease -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com Although the IPCC’s technical summaries on climate change are a key resource for assessment and future...

Of Secret Methane Leaks and the Baking Planet

Failing Global Systems Baher Kamal -
Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net Strangely enough, two major scientific findings, both announced in July, did not attribute the current dangerous...

The Bank of Canada is slaying inflation with high interest rates. This is class war.

Inequality Linda McQuaig -
Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca The Bank of Canada is driven by anti-inflation extremism. It’s the AR-15 method of inflation control. Now...

CRA penalized just 185 companies for misusing COVID money, while targeting 1M Canadians

Inequality Dan Darrah -
Click here to view original web page at breachmedia.ca New data reveals Canada Revenue Agency has gone after very few companies for abusing a COVID...

Is the Bank of Canada abandoning its mandate? The remedy for curbing inflation can’t be eroding real wages and putting people out of work.

Failing Global Systems Mario Seccareccia -
Click here to view original web page at medium.com Mario SeccarecciaProfessor Emeritus of Economics, University of Ottawa “The only logical conclusion that one can derive from...

Five Takeaways from the 2022 State of Civil Society Report

Democracy in Crisis Mandeep Tiwana -
Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net 2022 is halfway through. It’s clear this is a year of immense disruption, mayhem and contestation....

Canadian Corporate Profits Are Soaring While Inflation Is Eating Into Workers’ Wages

Inequality David Macdonald -
Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com Labor hardship and a fattened corporate sector underlie Canada’s pandemic recovery. Workers are suffering while corporate...

Justin Trudeau‘s Promise of a Greener Future Is Crashing Against His Climate Inaction

Failing Global Systems David Moscrop -
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Being poor is expensive; predatory lenders are making it worse

Institutional Barriers Stephen Wentzell -
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Canadians’ expectations post-pandemic: support for the poor, environmental protection, gain in importance

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To prevent disasters like Lac-Mégantic, private interests cannot be allowed to affect regulations

Institutional Barriers Bruce Campbell -
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A look at violence and conflict over Indigenous lands in nine Latin American countries

Failing Global Systems Astrid Arellano and Yvette Sierra Praeli -
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Western countries demand Russia follow international law – so why don’t they?

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