A historic launchpad for neoliberal globalization, global elites once again embrace the World Trade Organization. This time as a “coalition of the willing” launching an...
Producer - Lynn Fries
GPEnewsdocs founder Lynn Fries is an independent producer of video news and documentaries with a focus on the global political economy. Lynn´s research and video-journalism activities as a not-for-profit public service began in NYC in 2007. In 2012, upon relocating from the US to Europe, she established her production studio in Geneva. Most of her work during 2007-2019 was core to advancing The Real News Network (TRNN) ECONOMY. After the departure of TRNN founders, Lynn´s association with The Real News ended in 2019. Prior to public service broadcasting, Lynn was a senior professional at major NYC and London based financial institutions where she worked in collaboration with international teams of research analysts and economists.
South Africa hosts an event unpacking a WTO ECommerce initiative that far from delivering on a promise of ‘ECommerce for Development’ would deepen digital divides and...
Marking the 75 year anniversary of the ILO’s Declaration of Philadelphia, we explore this historic Bill of Rights through the lens of Alain Supiot, author of The Spirit...
To mark the 100 year centenary of International Labor Organization and the 75 year anniversary of the Declaration of Philadelphia, we present the full length original...
The alarming rise of poverty in the UK is deliberate – and so too in the US says Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty, discussing findings of...
The process of globalization has reached a stage where transnational corporate driven governance systems are displacing democracy and nation-states says Harris Gleckman...
No stakeholder-based global governance system comes close to matching the democratic legitimacy of a citizen-based and nation-state-based governance system, says Harris...
Responses like xenophobia, nationalism and populism are not going to resolve existential threats, says Roberto Savio, explaining why he thinks multilateralism needs to...
If Africa as a continent does not have strategic objectives of its own, the history of impediments to African economic development will be repeated in its engagement...
Big Tech is reinventing colonialism in the digital era and centralized control of the internet is at the root of current problems – like privacy and monopoly power...