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Capitalism is Just a Story, Featured

“Microfinance usually ends up making poverty worse.”

June 15, 2015 by Jason 11 Comments

Microfinance is not the magic pill it is made out to be. In fact it usually worsens the problem of poverty.

Alternatives, Capitalism is Just a Story, Featured

Playing monopoly with humanity: we’re all in the game

May 10, 2015 by Thomas Pichon 2 Comments

If you’ve ever played Monopoly, you know how the game is designed: except unwise choices made, the player who is close to winning keeps extracting money from the other players who are gradually falling into debt.

Debunking The Gates Foundation Narrative Project, Ideas

Sustainable Development Goals – Articles to Spread

April 17, 2015 by James North No Comments

As we counter the story the establishment is telling about the sustainable development process, here are articles that support tell the true story of poverty and development.

Alternatives, Capitalism is Just a Story, Do we Live on a One Party Planet?, Featured, Themes

Capitalism is just a story, and other dangerous thoughts (PART 2)

March 20, 2015 by The Rules 5 Comments

In part two, of the article series 'Capitalism is Just a Story and other Dangerous thoughts', we explore the role of ordinary citizens like you and I, and what possibilities exist for truly emancipatory social change.

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2 ways to understand climate denial in America

March 19, 2015 by Martin Kirk 2 Comments

There 130 million American who don’t believe in human induced climate change. Here are two explanations for climate denial that seem to hold water.

Inequality 300 richest have as much as 3 billion poorest

Commons, Featured, Global Economic Inequality Video, Ideas, Money, Power

3 ways humans create poverty

March 12, 2015 by The Rules 19 Comments

This is a big year for anyone interested in, or caught in the teeth of, poverty and extreme inequity. It’s the year of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to be agreed by heads of state in New York in September. Right now, tens of thousands of people—from NGOs, to...

Global Economic Inequality Video, Ideas, Money

The death of international development

March 11, 2015 by Jason Hickel 9 Comments

‘Development’ has failed to deliver. The reason, Jason Hickel argues, is that development organisations have failed to address the structural drivers of poverty

One Party Planet - the system ruled by neoliberalism

Do we Live on a One Party Planet?, Money, Power, Secrets

Syriza party will ‘never ratify’ TTIP

February 6, 2015 by Swati No Comments

The Syriza party has said that it will ‘never ratify’ the TTIP deal. This will be their ‘gift to all European people’. Georgios Katrougkalos, the new deputy minister for administrative reforms, has confirmed that the party stands by the anti-TTIP stance it had even before it came to power.

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Debunking The Gates Foundation Narrative Project, Featured, Ideas, Power, Themes

4 things you probably know about poverty that Bill and Melinda Gates don’t

February 4, 2015 by The Rules 13 Comments

Bill and Melinda Gates just released their annual letter, "Our Big Bet for the Future," with their thoughts on the current state of global poverty and the suite of projects they are funding to tackle it. While their hopeful tone and a good deal of what they are proposing is...

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Will you Sign my Petition to ban Online Petitions?

January 7, 2015 by James North 9 Comments

Most of you reading this have probably received numerous emails asking you to sign petitions on various causes over the years, some of them will have even come from us at /The Rules. If you are anything like me the vast majority of them will remain unread, and the cumulative...

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“Microfinance usually ends up making poverty worse.”

Playing monopoly with humanity: we’re all in the game

Sustainable Development Goals – Articles to Spread

Capitalism is just a story, and other dangerous thoughts (PART 2)

2 ways to understand climate denial in America

3 ways humans create poverty

The death of international development

Syriza party will ‘never ratify’ TTIP

4 things you probably know about poverty that Bill and Melinda Gates don’t

Will you Sign my Petition to ban Online Petitions?

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