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The Moneyless Economy Is Thriving in America

The free and shared goods economy is creating community resilience and alternatives to trash culture for millions of people. By April M. Short Humans have a serious stuff problem. We keep making and buying new things when most of the…

How People Are Fighting the World’s Reliance on the War Economy

Many people are already investing themselves in the local peace economy as they divest from the economy of war. By April M. Short War is not innate to humanity; it is learned culturally, and intentional systems of peace can prevent…

15th BRICS Summit opens in South Africa

The 15th Summit of the BRICS countries, Brazil, Russia, India, China, India, China and the host, South Africa, began on Tuesday (22) in Johannesburg. Under the theme “BRICS and Africa: Partnership for Mutually Accelerated Growth, Sustainable Development and Inclusive Multilateralism”,…

Japan’s plan to dump radioactive water in the ocean rejected nationally and internationally

According to the Japanese government’s plan, this Thursday the 24th, contaminated water from the nuclear accident in Fuskushima in 2011 will be released into the ocean. Japan assures that the water has been treated, but protests from different fronts are…

Is Russia stronger than sanctions?

By Nadia Schwarz At the beginning of August the World Bank, which is notoriously unsympathetic to Putin´s Russia, announced that by the end of 2022, the Russian Federation was ranked as the fifth strongest economic power in the world. This…

Chile: 50 years of neoliberalism (I)

Remarkably, it has been overlooked in the commemoration of half a century since the unfortunate destruction of our democracy that not only was a 17-year terrorist dictatorship installed, but also that its long-term design has been fully successful to this…

Israeli Apartheid just lost a Major Financier

This week, US billionaire Arthur Dantchik announced that he would no longer support the Kohelet Policy Forum, an extremist Israeli think tank behind the controversial judicial overhaul plan. This is an important victory for two reasons. Since May 2021, JVP-Philly…

China, the fascinating flight of the Dragon

How the emergence of a nation rejecting neoliberal dogmas and building the Common could shake a Western world grappling with inequality, economic stagnation, environmental devastation, and fascism. A chronicle of a journey By Antonio Martins Located 2,400 kilometers from Beijing,…

The problem is not growth but sustainability and distribution

Recently we have been able to read articles with different positions regarding some data on GDP growth in Asian countries. For some this data is encouraging, as it could mean better levels of employment and income in neglected sectors. For…

Economic growth or degrowth? Less would be much more

On 19 July the Asian Development Bank euphorically released the economic growth estimates for Asian countries for 2023 and 2024: after the pause imposed by Covid, the Asian economies will grow by an average of 4.8%. According to the data,…

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