Category: globalisation

Obama’s Rogue State

The US calls on other nations to abide by the treaties it violates.

Who do Bono and the ONE campaign really represent: the very poor or the very rich?

Under the pretext of preventing hunger, the rich nations are engineering a new scramble for Africa.

Colonialism never ended, it continues by different means.

Has our society become too complex to sustain?

John Maynard Keynes had the answer to the crisis we’re now facing; but it was blocked and then forgotten.

Peter Mandelson is bullying the world’s poorest nations into following a development route that can’t work.

A new wave of food colonialism is snatching food from the mouths of the poor.

The G8 has the interests of the rest of the world at heart – until they conflict with its own.

A world parliament allows the poor to speak for themselves.

Tony Blair cannot let go of Britain’s inordinate global powers

If the IMF wants to reform itself, why not try democracy?

Even as the G8 promises fall apart, Geldof stays silent

The corporations which helped to immiserate Africa are being given control of its development.

Far from challenging the G8’s role in Africa’s poverty, Geldof and Bono are legitimising its power.

The G8’s debt reduction plan is little better than an extortion racket

The UK and EU are keeping the poorer nations exactly where they want them: beholden to their patrons

Have we forgotten what the World Bank is for?

A coup against social Europe has been foiled – for the time being

Sweden proves the neoliberals wrong about how to slash poverty.