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An update to The Rules’ 2013 global inequality video

June 18, 2017 by The Rules 8 Comments
When we were researching the data behind the global inequality video, we were shocked by how extreme the figures were....
Do we Live on a One Party Planet?, Featured, It's The World Vs. The Bank, Money, Power, Regenerative farming

World Bank sides with agribusinesses against farmers and Indigenous communities

April 21, 2017 by Guest 2 Comments
As the World Bank Group’s spring meetings get underway in Washington, DC, the Bank’s complicity in corporate grabbing of land and natural resources around the world has become more blatant than ever.
Featured, Money, Power, Secrets, The story of poverty

Aid in reverse: how poor countries develop rich countries

January 18, 2017 by Jason 1 Comment
The story holds that the rich nations of the OECD give generously of their wealth to the poorer nations of the global south, to help them eradicate poverty and push them up the development ladder. This story is so widely propagated by the aid industry and the governments of the...
Featured, Ideas, Keep Connecting Dots..., Money, Power

The Global Development Narrative and “Strategic ambiguity”

September 19, 2016 by Guest No Comments
According to Kevin Anderson, deputy director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, global subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, both indirect and direct, amounted in 2015 to $5.3 trillion dollars. Or to frame it another way, 6.5% of global GDP. Roughly $10m per minute. That’s right you read...
Commons, Featured, Keep Connecting Dots..., Money, Power

Connecting the Dots the P2P Way: The Commons as the response to the structural crises of the global system

June 30, 2016 by Guest 2 Comments
The Connecting the Dots series has convincingly shown a number of interconnected reasons why the global system is in crisis, and why there is no way out without a structural transformation of the dominant neoliberal system. In our contribution, we want to stress the key importance of what we call...
Debunking The Gates Foundation Narrative Project, Featured, It's The World Vs. The Bank, Money, Power, The story of poverty

With a little help from Bill Gates, the World Bank creates a new aid conditionality

April 27, 2016 by Guest 1 Comment
With $43.5 billion in assets, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is a major player in the field of international aid. Seated next to the World Bank President, Bill Gates, the former CEO of Microsoft, outlined three game-changers to ensure development. First, donors need to be constant in their...
Capitalism is Just a Story, Featured, Ideas, Money, Power, The story of poverty

The Global Architecture of Wealth Extraction

April 22, 2016 by Joe Brewer No Comments
Wealth inequality has reached truly epic proportions — with 62 individuals amassing the same aggregate wealth as 3.7 billion. Most of us intuitively sense that this outcome was rigged by design by a global elite.
Featured, Money, Power, Secrets, The story of poverty

How the west destroyed the global south’s best shot at development

April 18, 2016 by Jason No Comments
When it comes to international affairs, western politicians love to celebrate their devotion to development. In her flagship speech on development as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton offered stories about US aid transforming the lives of poor people in Indonesia, Nicaragua and South Africa. France’s minister of foreign affairs recently...
Featured, Money, Power, The story of poverty

Global inequality may be much worse than we think

April 14, 2016 by Jason 2 Comments
How do we measure inequality? From some angles, things appear to be improving, but from others the situation is getting worse and worse
Featured, Ideas, Keep Connecting Dots..., Money, Power

What If It’s All Connected? Humanity and the Global Crisis

April 12, 2016 by Joe Brewer No Comments
The 21st Century is a time of great converging challenges—we need to think, feel and act systemically like never before in our history. In reality the threats are all connected, yet we continue to deal with them separately in a piecemeal fashion. This simply will not be good enough.
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