World Bank Enables Private Capture of Profits, Public Resources
The World Bank insists on private finance or economic recovery but does little to ensure profit-hungry commercial finance serves the public
Read more...The World Bank insists on private finance or economic recovery but does little to ensure profit-hungry commercial finance serves the public
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Read more...The survival of the euro has come at the cost of Europe’s permanent stagnation and continuing fragmentation
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Read more...German elites run up the tab, but the country’s working class is largely stuck with the bill. An attempt to understand why Germany cannot or will not reverse course.
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Read more...Continuing the debate on whether democracy is viable in a capitalist regime.
Read more...Yes, Virginia, ultra-processed food is a health hazard. But what to do?
Read more...e body politic in the West is not at all healthy. Why is there so much denial about that?
Read more...How English added capital, capitalist, and capitalism to its word hoard.
Read more...COP28 may toy with wide-ranging reforms needed to arrest a climate disaster. But arguablly necessary governance structures seem unattainable.
Read more...The green energy transition, which truth be told has not gotten very far, is already hitting a wall.
Read more...A detailed account of the Dublin riot and the related political and social undercurrents in Ireland by our esteemed PlutoniumKun
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