Who’s Missing From the Pandora Papers: The Main Offenders and Accomplices
Missing from the elaborate Pandora “disclosure” are not only the main financial havens, companies and banks, but also today’s leading investors.
The Fear Pandemic and the Crisis of Capitalism. Sleepwalking Towards A Global Economic Crisis?
In October 2019, in a speech at an International Monetary Fund conference, former Bank of England governor Mervyn King warned that the world was sleepwalking towards a fresh economic and financial crisis that would have devastating consequences for what he called the “democratic market system”. According to King, the global economy was stuck in a…
Agrifood Conglomerates: Smashing the Heads of India’s Farmers: A Global Struggle Against Tyranny
According to Reuters, more than 500,000 farmers attended a rally in the city of Muzaffarnagar in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on 5 September. Hundreds of thousands more turned out for other rallies in the state. Rakesh Tikait, a prominent farmers’ leader, said this would breathe fresh life into the Indian farmers’ protest movement….
Amazon, “Economic Terrorism” and the Destruction of Competition and Livelihoods
Global corporations are colonising India’s retail space through e-commerce and destroying small-scale physical retail and millions of livelihoods. Walmart entered into India in 2016 with a US$3.3 billion take-over of the online retail start-up Jet.com. This was followed in 2018 with a US$16 billion take-over of India’s largest online retail platform, Flipkart. Today, Walmart and Amazon…
Nomad America? The Super Rich and the Brutality of Corporate Capitalism
Director Chloe Zhao has created a somber, almost tragic look back, look now and look to the possible future for many of us working stiffs. The film is called Nomadland (2021) starring Frances McDormand as Fern, a 60 something widow forced out of her previous life and onto the road. The town where she had…
Humanity as a Species of the Stars or Lab Rats in Geopolitical Cage?
Many of the breakthroughs in rocketry, space science and the atom which so profoundly altered the world during the 20th century happened within the unfortunate momentum generated by wars both hot and cold. In these days of profound uncertainty, it is comforting knowing that certain fundamental truths still exist and serve as guiding lights through…