MICHAEL HUDSON To paraphrase Mark Twain, everyone complains about inequality, but nobody does anything about it. What they do is to use “inequality” as a takeoff point to project their own views on how to […]
Colin Todhunter News broke this week that Monsanto accepted a $66 billion takeover bid from Bayer. The new company would control more than 25 per cent of the global supply of commercial seeds and pesticides. […]
Rather than casting off the shackles of the EU, eurozone and IMF, the Syriza-led Greek government favors the ‘oligarchs’ it once vowed to tear down and doubles down on austerity measures, leaving Greek people to […]
Sputnik News On Tuesday, President Poroshenko raised eyebrows when he said that “God willing…Ukraine would be given another $1 billion tranche from the IMF,” making the sign of the cross gesture as he said it. […]
‘The power of corporations is so great within our society that they have undermined the idea that there is any other way to run society’ Nika Knight Corporations are running the world, according to new […]
SHONA MURRAY The Irish government’s decision to appeal a European Commission ruling that US tech firm Apple must pay back taxes is likely to have serious ramifications for its “moral authority” in some corners of […]
Ariel Noyola Rodríguez During the first Annual Summit organized by the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in Beijing, China has shown her intention to take over the global leadership in infrastructure investment. By the end […]
PEPE ESCOBAR What has just taken place in Hangzhou, China, is of immense geoeconomic importance. Beijing from the start treated the G20 very seriously; this was designed as China’s party, not the declining West’s. And […]
Neil Clark The most revealing thing about the European Commission’s ruling that Apple should pay Ireland up to €13 billion in back taxes has been the indignant reaction from the US. Charles Schumer, described by […]
In Europe, politicians in the bloc’s biggest economic powers, France and Germany, find themselves under fire for supporting negotiations with the U.S. Zerohedge.com Just two days after Germany’s outspoken vice chancellor (who has over the […]
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