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Richard Kozul-Wright describes the current state of global economic disorder, as presented in UNCTAD's Trade and Development Report, and discusses possibilities and limits of effective regional responses.

GRAIN researcher, Devlin Kuyek says the report “An agribusiness greenwashing glossary” identifies ten key greenwashing terms used by Big Food & Big Agribusiness that serve to protect their...

John Bellamy Foster explains the ‘solution’ master-minded by global finance to resolve the imminent environmental crisis: create a multi-quadrillion dollars worth of assets on the back of everything nature...

The economic doctrine promoted by the IMF after the fall of the Berlin Wall brought massive damage to the countries now at war. Prabhat Patnaik looks at how the role of the IMF was instrumental to the advance...

James K. Galbraith discusses the shift of US capitalism from an industrial state to what he calls a Predator State: a finance-led, military-centered corporate republic. To overcome this he lays out what is...

Research by Tim Wise (GDAE-Tufts University) is conclusive and fully resonates with claims by Africa’s biggest grassroots movement, The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa: the corporate capture of...

In this 3 part series, Prabhat Patnaik talks about his read on the history of capitalism from colonialism into the present which he breaks down into five distinct periods: (1) Colonialism prior to the First...

Prabhat Patnaik shows that as capital is relocated, real wages do not rise, inequality widens, and global demand is suppressed. The system remains in protracted crisis; Keynesianism in the North alone is no...

Prabhat Patnaik explains how the colonial system led to depression. Then, in advanced countries governments stepped in to increase demand and productivity, but how unless the periphery is available for...