Mastodon

Economics

Why the U.S. Culture of Colonial Extraction Is Making People Sick and Destroying the Planet

Rupa Marya, a physician and musician, studies how social structures impact health. She says colonial capitalism fractures the critical relationships that keep us healthy. By April M. Short A widespread culture of isolation and disconnection from our bodies, each other…

The myth of effort and the traps of poverty

TRAPS. People in extreme poverty, even with social assistance, are unlikely to be able to leave their condition. Source : Rosa Chávez Yacila – OjoPublico A wide range of scientific evidence refutes the assumption that people are poor because they…

Face 2 Face with Ron Hantz

LIVE SHOW on Thursday, March 24 at 12:30 PM On this show, we speak with Ron Hantz about Housing and Cooperatives. Mr. Hantz, founder and board president of the Network for Developing Conscious Communities (NDCC), dedicates his life purpose to…

What do you want me to say? It makes me want to cry

The agreement between Argentina and the International Monetary Fund began to be debated yesterday in the Budget Commission of the Chamber of Deputies and on Thursday it will reach the Chamber of Deputies. By Jorge Pardés This is the first…

Ending Poverty by Rethinking Thinking

First Premise:  “There is nothing new about poverty. What is new is that we now have the techniques and the resources to get rid of poverty. The real question is whether we have the will.”  –Martin Luther King Jr. Second…

Humanist Institute of Systemic Prognosis

Launching of the IHPS The IHPS is based on the current of thought New Universalist Humanism, which emerged in the 1970s from the intellectual and social work of Mario Luis Rodríguez Cobos (1938-2010). Systemic forecasting refers to the prospection of…

New protests by textile workers in Haiti

Textile workers returned to the streets today to demand a wage of 1,500 gourdes a day (less than 15 dollars), despite police repression in recent days of protest. “One thousand 500 gourdes, one thousand 500 gourdes,” chanted the protesters on…

European Union targeting Comprehensive Partnership with Africa

European Union seeks to build strongly on its existing economic and trade during the February 17 – 18th summit with African leaders, and the African Union. Leading business enterprises and representatives from academic, civil society organizations and media will be…

The transnational plunder of Chilean copper

The study, “New estimates of the wealth given away to large private copper mining companies: Chile 2005-2015”, addressed the economic rent obtained by the 10 largest mining companies in Chile. Using official World Bank (WB) data for the period 2005-2014…

Haiti, San Martin and the odious foreign debt

The colonising logic of the centres of conditioning capital, from the very beginning, sought to take over Latin America, dominating it in different ways, according to their interests, beyond the principles that were proclaimed and the freedom that was promised.…

1 24 25 26 27 28 161