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 perpetuate concentrated wealth and power...
Selected Stories
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 of Philadelphia: Social Justice vs. the...
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 footage of Alain Supiot’s 2010 ILO Public...
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 his final report on the United Kingdom...
The process of globalization has reached a stage where transnational corporate driven governance systems are displacing democracy and nation-states says Harris Gleckman in a 2 part interview unpacking...
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 Gleckman, who advocates three...
Responses like xenophobia, nationalism and populism are not going to resolve existential threats, says Roberto Savio, explaining why he thinks multilateralism needs to make a strong comeback April 22, 2019 May...
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 with China, says Ethiopia’s Alemayehu Geda...
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 – and the associated rise of Big...
The international community has the means to redesign the worldwide digital ecosystem to ensure critical functions performed in the digital world uphold the public interest and deliver a safe and inclusive...
An attentive review of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights suggests that 70 years on we have not fully averted the kinds of mistakes that the drafters of the UDHR sought to prevent from ever being...
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...
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...
The question of whether or not banks should be stripped of their ability to create money goes to vote in Switzerland by national referendum. Of relevance to all modern capitalist economies, economist Jo...
The argument in favor of stripping banks of their ability to create money is based on a fundamental misconception of how the monetary and financial system operate says Jo Michell in discussing how the economy...
There is no easy monetary fix for the problems of modern capitalist economies; deep problems in the economy cannot be solved by trying to control the money supply; nothing is stopping the government from...
China’s Embrace Of An Intellectual Property System Imposed On It By The United States – Peter Drahos
The U.S. & China need to rethink the world’s intellectual property-based innovation system to safeguard citizen interests or else this privatization of technology, an arms race mentality in science, will...
Peter Dittus, former BIS Chief and author of ‘Revolution Required’ and Yilmaz Akyuz, South Centre Chief Economist and author of ‘Playing With Fire’ explain how financial fragility in the world economy was...
The deepened financial integration of the Global South is a further mechanism of Northern countries that is compressing wage income but debt – growing and massive accumulation of debt worldwide –...
Tactics by superpowers in new technologies like Big Data and Artificial Intelligence seeking further power under the guise of new E-Commerce rules being pushed at the World Trade Organization are denounced by...
Global inequality, household indebtedness, insufficient investment and stagnant economic recovery are the consequences of the dominance of large financial and corporate bodies in shaping globalization says...
Historically all major thinkers about the economy were development economists as they saw the economy going through transformative structural changes and that is what they studied, says Jayati Ghosh. This 4...