Economics

Human Wrongs Watch By Johan Hammerstrøm* Today’s [5 June 2015] vote in the Norwegian Parliament marks a truly historic event: It is the first time in history that all our politicians — left-leaning and right-leaning — have come together to…

As leaders of the seven wealthy democracies known as the Group of Seven hold talks in a secluded castle in Germany, thousands of protesters have been met with 20,000 police in the largest security operation in the history of Bavaria.…

Newsletter from the Stop TTIP campaign Dear friends, We did it! 2 million people signed our European Citizens Initiative (ECI) against TTIP (the EU-US agreement) and CETA (the EU-Canada agreement). This is a new record: no other ECI has ever…

Human Wrongs Watch By Roberto Savio* Rome, 7 June 2015 – With little fanfare, the German IFO Institute for Economic Research recently published a report on population projections for Germany which states simply that the country’s population is shrinking fast. The…

By Ashoka Jegroo for Waging Nonviolence Over 30,000 people crowded onto the streets of Munich, Germany on June 4 to protest the upcoming meeting between leaders of seven of the world’s richest countries. “I’d say I’m here against the inequality…

By George Monbiot for The Guardian Universities should defend students against lovebombing by banks and consultancy firms – before it ruins their lives To seek enlightenment, intellectual or spiritual; to do good; to love and be loved; to create and…

Our entire life is founded around natural resources in the form of raw, mined and extracted materials, water and energy, as well as the farming lands available to us all living our life on Earth. These gifts are the basis…

By Geoff Gilbert May 13, 2015 for Waging Nonviolence Our society’s institutions are in crisis — with looming ecological collapse, historic concentration of capital, incarceration rates far beyond those of any other country, the diminishing civil liberties that come along…

Quito, May 30 (Andes).- The Swedish consultancy firm Kreab presented its report “Ecuador y la Revolucion Ciudadana, un camino hacia el buen vivr” (Ecuador and its Citizen Revolution, a path towards the good living) which describes the country as “a…

Plans for a worldwide fleet of huge new nuclear reactors have collapsed, with the cancellation of a major project and no new orders being placed. By Paul Brown The European nuclear industry, led by France, seems to be in terminal…