No major democratic country deals with domestic civil or criminal matters related to human rights based on a voluntary system, explains Harris Gleckman, in an op-ed on the disproportionate power wielded by...
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Poverty and destitution in the UK, even among those employed, and harsh government policy ‘solutions’ like punitive ‘job centers’ hit the most vulnerable hardest, including women and people with disabilities...
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 Special Rapporteur for Extreme Poverty & Human Rights, Philip...
Corporate hijacking of international public institutions like the World Trade Organization has been denounced by developing countries and activists for decades and today the denunciations are reflected in...
TRNN presents full length documentary footage taken inside the World Trade Organization at the WTO 2018 Public Forum OWINFS session denouncing the WTO rules based order as a world system run by and for the...
Taking an ever rising share of global income the real benefits of global trade go to the profits of the top 2,000 TNCs. The flip-side is falling wages and government revenues says Richard Kozul-Wright...
Think hard about the relevance of the 1948 Havana Charter for addressing the imbalances and inequities of the 21st century global economy says Richard Kozul-Wright noting that with the rise of neoliberalism...
The US is deliberately structuring global Internet governance to ensure unrestricted corporate freedom, favor its own surveillance apparatus and largely deny certain Internet services should be public...
Critical prerequisites like security for public users were missing in the internet’s large scale commercial implementation based on ARPANET technology and are still missing today as the US pushes forward...
Is Capitalism In Crisis? Author of ‘Karl Marx’s Capital & The Present’ Responds – C.P. Chandrasekhar
The fundamental proneness to crisis under capitalism was not overcome in the Golden Age of Capitalism and crisis in the late 1960s ushered in an era of finance by opening new avenues for accumulating wealth...