Big Tech Goes For the Kill at the World Trade Organization Deborah James on why we need to pay attention to proposed changes in global rules. Amid...
Selected Stories
More Giveaways to Capitalist Finance? It’s High Time To Change the Objective Jan Kregel explains the fundamental problem with the economic...
Government Under Finance: There Is No Easy Exit Prabhat Patnaik reflects on the COVID-19 shock that has worsened the crisis triggered by globalized...
Full Employment Will Overcome Neoliberalism & the COVID-19 Jobs Crisis Robert Pollin advocates a macroeconomic agenda centered on full employment...
The EURO Arrangement is Faulty Heiner Flassbeck shows it defies macroeconomic logic to promote surpluses for Germany, prohibit government deficits...
Healthy People, Healthy Planet and a Healthy Economy Richard Kozul-Wright explains why these challenges need to be addressed at once in a...
Debt Crises Do Not Have to Develop Into Catastrophes Jürgen Kaiser, debt expert, reminds us of the agreement that helped Germany after WWII to avert...
COVID-19: What Is To Be Done? According to Prof Jayati Ghosh, this is the greatest crisis experienced by the capitalist system; she lays out the...
The Unexpected Reckoning: COVID-19 and Capitalism The coronovirus pandemic exposes the consequences of taking the neoliberal road decades ago...
Why Pan-Africanism Due To a Monetary Union Cannot Stand a Covid-19 Shock The global economic crisis unfolding from the Covid-19 pandemic will once...
To Resolve the Economic & Environmental Crisis, Do Not Bank On the Private Sector Richard Kozul-Wright, chief economist of UNCTAD, explains what...
Financing a Global Green New Deal: System Change Needed Transform the economy by subordinating the international financial system to the authority of...
“The UN is being turned into a public private partnership” “This public-private partnership will permanently associate the UN with...
Neoliberal Globalization Delivers Slow Growth The neoliberal trap the Modi government finds itself in is not just an Indian phenomenon, says...
Role of Capital and Labor in the Digital Economy Taking the example of cab-hailing app Uber, the Director of IT for Change says that we will need to...
Neoliberal Globalization’s Devastating Digital Ambitions A historic launchpad for neoliberal globalization, global elites once again embrace...
Promise of ‘ECommerce for Development’ Gets a Reality Check South Africa calls out WTO ECommerce initiative that far from delivering on a promise of...
Alain Supiot Says the World Bank Helps Investors Choose the Law They Want Marking the 75 year anniversary of the ILO’s Declaration of Philadelphia...
Declaration of Philadelphia: The Labor Bill of Rights Now Replaced by ‘Total Market’ To mark the 100 year centenary of International...
What Future for the UK with One-Third of Children in Poverty? The alarming rise of poverty in the UK is deliberate – and so too in the US...
There are No Nation-States, Only Corporate Global Governors The process of globalization has reached a stage where transnational corporate driven...
Three Pro-Democracy Ways To Discipline Corporate Global Governors No stakeholder-based global governance system comes close to matching the...
From Multilateralism to the Old Policy of Power Responses like xenophobia, nationalism and populism are not going to resolve existential threats...
China Has Strategic Objectives In Going Global, Does Africa? If Africa as a continent does not have strategic objectives of its own, the history of...
A Worldwide Web of Digital Colonialism: The Internet into the Present Big Tech is reinventing colonialism in the digital era and centralized control...
Re-Decentralizing the Internet: The Fight For Democracy & Inclusive Digital Freedom The international community has the means to redesign the...
1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights: 70 Year Anniversary An attentive review of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights suggests that...
Counterbalancing Disproportionate Power: The Message from Harris Gleckman No major democratic country deals with domestic civil or criminal matters...
Significant Poverty in the UK Triggers Investigation by Human Rights Expert, Philip Alston Poverty and destitution in the UK, even among those...
The British model since 2010, based on ‘austerity’ can be seen as a transfer of resources from the poor to the relatively wealthy, explains UN...