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‘Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste’

The Covid-19 pandemic and the opportunity for food sovereignty The Covid-19 pandemic has provoked widespread discussion of what kind of future the world should look forward to after the crisis. One of the areas of economic life around which there is spirited debate is...
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Reading Piketty I: A Concise and Comprehensive Summary of Capital and Ideology

In this summary, Walden Bello distills the key ideas and data contained in Thomas Piketty’s monumental work Capital and Ideology. The French economist deserves to be read by more people, but many have neither the time nor energy to work through this sprawling...
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The AFP as thought police

'A reign of terror is about to be imposed on the university by idiots whose main criterion for red-tagging you is that if you sound subversive or you are critical of the president and the military, then you must be a rotten subversive' originally posted on rappler.com...
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The face of things to come

The storming of Capitol shows America has entered the Weimar Era By mid-February 2021, American deaths from Covid-19 may well surpass the country’s 405,400 deaths during the Second World War. By around mid-May, more Americans will have died from Covid-19 than during...
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The day after…

Mar 8, 2008 |

(Bali, Dec. 16). A day after the dramatic ending of the Bali climate talks, many are wondering if the result was...

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