The world is not poor because it’s God’s will

The World Economy  is getting worse by every passing day. Technology and ideas that were meant to improve our lives have ended up detoriating it. The Ideas of Wall Street, wealth distribution, Competitive advantage, Capitalism have failed to help humans, Humanity,...
The World Bank and the Battle for the Future of Farming

The World Bank and the Battle for the Future of Farming

The article originally appeared on Common Dreams on 17th April 2015. Reach the author on Twitter at:  @martinkirk_ny.   There is a battle raging over the future of farming on this planet, and the front line, this week, is at the Spring Meetings of the World Bank...
The World Bank, poverty creation and the banality of evil

The World Bank, poverty creation and the banality of evil

The article originally appeared on Truthout on March 25, 2015   This week, the World Bank is convening its 16th annual “Conference on Land and Poverty,” which brings together corporations, governments and civil society groups to ostensibly discuss how...
The World Bank’s sham conference on land and poverty

The World Bank’s sham conference on land and poverty

Every year for the last fifteen years, the World Bank has organised “The Conference on Land and Poverty,” ostensibly to discuss how to “improve land governance.” And every year, the World Bank Group has been accused of financing projects that support often brutal...