Posts tagged with debt
Adam Ma'anit, Tuesday, October 14, 2008
The US National Debt Clock – a fixture at New York’s Times Square for over twenty years – has recently run out of numbers to display the correct level of national debt which now exceeds a mind-boggling $10 trillion.
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David Ransom, Monday, October 13, 2008
It's a tangled web the hidden hand of the market weaves when it practices to deceive.
There is no alternative to the alternatives
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David Ransom, Friday, October 10, 2008
Some random thoughts on how the crisis migrated from 'Third' to 'Second' and now 'First' worlds - and has run out of runway...
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Georgina Donati, Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Should we throw our weight behind President Correa's request that rich countries pay Ecuador not to exploit its oil? Not unreservedly, argues Georgie Donati from the Yasuní Green Gold campaign.
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Jess Worth, Friday, May 16, 2008
What
were you doing a decade ago? I was dressed as an international banker,
dragging a gang of sackcloth-wearing slaves through the streets of
Birmingham, occasionally stopping to whip them and demand my money
back. Not for fun, you understand (though it was, rather – apart from
the fact that my bowler hat itched and my moustache was melting in the
sunshine.) We were doing it because the G8 leaders were meeting there,
and we were part of the Jubilee 2000 campaign to cancel ‘third world’
debt.
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Jess Worth, Thursday, January 25, 2007
The World Social Forum is a good place to be if you want to get a
handle on the biggest issues that grassroots activists are working on,
that communities and movements are resisting, and that we all need to
take notice of. This year, the four that really stood out for me are
(in no particular order, and making no attempt to be exhaustive, please
add your own!):
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