Tag: global economy

The unchecked rise of financial entities designed to conceal wealth and questionable activity has created a global, collaborative ecosystem. It is fueling corruption and crime while allowing those involved to escape accountability.

Make no mistake: This is not another small play of some far-away war game. This is a big deal. 

Failing to address this crisis threatens a humanitarian catastrophe in which the countries least responsible for the climate crisis will face its worst effects.

The winners are the opportunists and war profiteers, and the losers are the people of Ukraine, working and poor people everywhere, but especially in the Global South, and our fading hopes of halting the climate crisis.

Young people need real information and analysis, survival skills and resources.

"Education systems desperately need more and better funding across low- and lower-middle-income countries."

“Someone, somewhere, at some time will eventually pay the price.”

Counting up the number of billionaires in a nation can give us a vivid anecdotal sense of how concentrated a nation’s wealth has become.

Free trade is simply a euphemism for the corporate capture of international trade.

Did the world let an economic crisis go to waste? We may soon find out the hard way.