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Why are my highly educated friends so ignorant about trade?

February 15, 2017 by Local Futures No Comments
Or, 10 Reasons why we shouldn't mourn the death of the TPP.
Featured, Money, Power, Secrets

The Trans-Pacific Free-Trade Charade

October 4, 2015 by Guest No Comments
As negotiators and ministers from the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries meet in Atlanta in an effort to finalize the details of the sweeping new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), some sober analysis is warranted.
Going against the crowd
Capitalism is Just a Story, Commons, Do we Live on a One Party Planet?, General, Secrets

It’s official: TPP leak confirms corporations to be given more power over governments

March 27, 2015 by Swati 6 Comments
The controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal is designed to give corporations more power over domestic laws, including environment, labour and other safeguards. This and other revelations about the TPP came forth after Wikileaks released the Investment Chapter of the deal on March 25, 2015.
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...
TTIP leak
Featured, Money, Secrets

TTIP leak: What’s in this 103-page document that they don’t want us to see?

February 27, 2015 by The Rules No Comments
A 103-page document with details of the TTIP negotiation has been leaked to the BBC. According to the BBC the document includes a list of things the EU wants to exclude from the deal.
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.
World Bank protest in Kenya
Alternatives, Commons, It's The World Vs. The Bank, Power, Themes

When the world challenged The Bank

December 23, 2014 by The Rules 1 Comment
“For anyone to truly shake things up, they would need to alter the logic of the system itself. They would need to change its pattern.” The One Party Planet The good news is that patterns are changing. It is people like you and me who are changing them.
Neoloiberal ideology rules the world
Do we Live on a One Party Planet?, Featured, Ideas, Money, Power

How Corporate Power Has Achieved A Silent Coup At A Global Scale

December 3, 2014 by James North No Comments
Who rules the world? It’s a very important question for anyone who wants to change the status quo. A new pamphlet released today argues that we live on a One Party Planet, namely that one overarching ideology – Neoliberalism, Freemarket Economics, call it what you will – has taken control...
Ideas, Money

‘Free trade’ and the death of democracy

February 21, 2014 by Jason No Comments
“Free trade”. The term itself is a trap — a brilliant framing device that neatly neutralises opposition. If you take a stand against free trade you appear to be taking a stand against freedom itself, which is clearly not a tenable position. In fact, in recent decades the term “free...
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The REAL Story of Wealth Creation

The REAL Story of Wealth Creation

August 13, 2015
What would you do with 2 trillion dollars?

What would you do with 2 trillion dollars?

June 9, 2015
3 ways humans create poverty

3 ways humans create poverty

March 12, 2015

The Illusion of Legitimacy: The predatory borrower and inequality

April 8, 2015
4 things you probably know about poverty that Bill and Melinda Gates don’t

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

February 4, 2015

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