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This Planet Is Drying Up. These Are the Consequences

Failing Global Systems Baher Kamal -
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,...

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

Failing Global Systems Pat Mooney -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org As economies tumble, inflation surges and global food prices soar to critically high levels, two sectors...

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

Failing Global Systems Jim Stanford -
Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca ...

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...

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...

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...

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

Failing Global Systems David Moscrop -
Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have long promised aggressive action on climate change, but a recent report suggests...

A look at violence and conflict over Indigenous lands in nine Latin American countries

Failing Global Systems Astrid Arellano and Yvette Sierra Praeli -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com Indigenous people make up a third of the total number of environmental defenders killed across the...

Western countries demand Russia follow international law – so why don’t they?

Failing Global Systems Amyn Sajoo -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com With a passion that recalls the aftermath of the Second World War, politicians and commentators are...

Neoliberalism Hasn’t Helped Much of the Global South

Failing Global Systems Sean T. Byrnes -
Click here to view original web page at jacobinmag.com For a brief period after World War II, Third World nations played an active role in...

A New Non-Aligned Movement Is an Urgent Imperative for the Global South

Failing Global Systems Francine Mestrum -
Click here to view original web page at www.globalsocialjustice.info “We have sat outside looking in for too long to believe that the West will give...

To achieve racial justice we must rebuild the world – and save the planet

Failing Global Systems Aaron White and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò -
Click here to view original web page at www.opendemocracy.net Olúfémi Táíwò argues that reparations for slavery and colonialism must include saving the earth from climate...

Covid-19 didn’t cause the care crisis—privatisation did

Failing Global Systems Rosa Pavanelli -
Click here to view original web page at socialeurope.eu The scandal of Europe’s biggest eldercare operator highlights how a public good has been turned into...

Can 70% of the World’s Poor Celebrate International Women’s Day?

Failing Global Systems Baher Kamal -
Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net MADRID, Mar 7 2022 (IPS) - The picture is gloomy: not only do women represent 70%...

Higher Inflation Doesn’t Reduce Real Wages

Failing Global Systems Seth Ackerman -
Click here to view original web page at jacobinmag.com For all the discourse churned out in the inflation debate over the past year, there’s one...

Building a Post-Extractivist Future for Latin America

Failing Global Systems John Feffer -
Click here to view original web page at fpif.org The region faces a choice between top-down "Green growth" and bottom-up efforts to transform economies. During the...

The world’s food systems are in crisis, and big agribusiness is at its heart

Failing Global Systems Lorena Cotza and Quafa Haddioui -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org Public finance has a key role to play in agriculture. Instead of propping up corporate...

Financialization at Heart of Economic Malaise

Failing Global Systems Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram -
Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net The deep-seated causes of the current resurgence of inflation, inequalities and contractionary tendencies have not been...
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