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The World Bank and the BRICS Bank Have New Leaders and Different Outlooks

In late February 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden announced that the United States had placed the nomination of Ajay Banga to be the next head of the World Bank, established in 1944. There will be no other official candidates for this job…

Why we will be proposing an Unconditional and Universal Basic Income

One of the most controversial aspects when talking about Universal and Unconditional Basic Income is its universality. Many people, even from progressive ideologies, do not agree that wealthy people should receive the Unconditional Basic Income. EUREKA By UNIVERSALITY we mean…

Latin American and Caribbean countries unite to counter inflation

The governments of ten Latin American and Caribbean countries will meet on Wednesday to discuss the best ways to jointly counter the scourge to their populations of the inflationary wave sweeping the world. The meeting is convened by Mexican President…

RBC official refuses to let Indigenous delegates, including Wet’suwet’en Hereditary leadership representatives into AGM in Saskatoon

Today at the annual general meeting (AGM) in Saskatoon RBC’s attempt to divide and threaten with arrest and physical violence the Indigenous delegation – who all have received necessary proxies – and shut out Wet’suwet’en Hereditary leadership is further confirmation…

Malaysia, Bangladesh ‘banana diplomacy’

After wheat, rice and corn, banana is the most produced fruit in the world. That is, number 4. Asia-Pacific is the main center of banana production. Basically, India occupies a large part of the world art market. Banana market is…

Let’s free nature from the domination of finance. Petition on change.org

The value of life is not money or power. The petition promoted by Elena Mazzoni is directed to Italian President Sergio Mattarella Over the past three decades, money (finance) and power (war) have increased their dominance over life, thanks in…

BRICS would create “fundamentally new” common currency, says a senior Russian official

” Neither the euro nor the dollar is backed by anything, and our countries can do what the Bretton Woods system destroyed,” the deputy speaker of the Russian State Duma said. The BRICS group of Brazil, Russia, India, China and…

Nationwide strike paralyses Germany

Millions of passengers have been affected today by a general public transport strike across Germany. It is a standstill as workers across the country agreed to go on a 24-hour mega-strike. Union leaders are demanding wage increases for workers, as…

Creating Dignified Livelihoods

My basic idea is taken from the last speech of Martin Luther King Jr.  It was given in Memphis, Tennessee, less than 24 hours before his assassination.  He was in Memphis to support a strike of the sanitation workers of…

Owners of the Argentine dictatorship, owners of the country

Walking through the little streets of Buenos Aires “that have that I don’t know why” is beautiful. Even after the neoliberal gale and the pandemic, which took away businesses and factories and families… Buenos Aires is attractive and captivating and,…

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