Article published in Amauta with permission from the author by Thom Hartmann Globalization is killing Europe, just as it’s already wiped out much of the American middle class. Spain and Greece are facing immediate crises that many other European nations see on the near horizon: aging boomer workers are retiring with healthy benefit packages, but the younger workers [...]

Fuente: IPS por Peter Costantini SEATTLE, Estados Unidos, 10 feb (IPS) – La codicia desmedida de Wall Street no es nada nuevo, pero la renovada avidez de los más poderosos financistas del mundo ha causado a la vez asombro y disgusto en todo el espectro político de Estados Unidos. Pese al daño que puede causar, esta avidez está [...]

Article published in Amauta with permission from TomDispatch Source: TomDispatch How the Obama Administration Ended Up Where Franklin Roosevelt Began by Steve Fraser February 11, 2010 On March 4, 1933, the day he took office, Franklin Roosevelt excoriated the “money changers” who “have fled from their high seats in the temples of our civilization [because...] they know only the rules [...]

Source: L’Humanité Translation: Leslie Thatcher, t r u t h o u t by Maurice Ulrich February 8, 2010 Now, it’s the markets that were saved with the people’s money that intend to strangle those very same people. Pigs, swine. That’s how the markets’ and the banks’ Dr. Strangeloves now refer to the most fragile countries in the euro [...]

Source: Women News Network by Peggy Simpson February 1, 2010 Able to quickly reach a well-developed network of women throughout the country, an alternative banking system performs while the Haitian economy is in shambles. A micro-credit program and banking system for more than 200,000 women in Haiti has come to the rescue of the overall economy in the wake [...]

Article published in Amauta with special permission from the author Source: The Independent How do you regulate banks effectively, if the Senate is owned by Wall Street? by Johann Hari January 29, 2010 This week, a disaster hit the United States, and the after-shocks will be shaking and breaking global politics for years. It did not grab the same press [...]

Fuente: Too Much Traducción: Anna Maria Garriga Tarrés, Sin Permiso por Sam Pizzigati 10 de enero, 2010 Puede que el Congreso esté paralizado pero la administración Obama tiene el poder, incluso sin la intervención del Congreso,  de actuar con respecto a los presidentes y altos ejecutivos de las corporaciones y sobre las lluvias de dinero que tanto enfurecen al [...]

Source: Truthdig by Chris Hedges January 10, 2010 Corporations, which control the levers of power in government and finance, promote and empower the psychologically maimed. Those who lack the capacity for empathy and who embrace the goals of the corporation-personal power and wealth-as the highest good succeed. Those who possess moral autonomy and individuality do not. And these [...]

Source: Mother Jones by Joseph E. Stiglitz January 2010 It is said  that a near-death experience forces one to reevaluate priorities and values. The global economy has just escaped a near-death experience. The crisis exposed the flaws in the prevailing economic model, but it also exposed flaws in our society. Much has been written about the foolishness of [...]

Source: t r u t h o u t by Mike Elk January 12, 2010 I have made friends with a lot of people in my life. But as working-class kid from Pittsburgh, perhaps my most unusual friendship was with a Goldman Sachs executive, Pedro Henrique Fragoso Pires Garcia. Typically in Brazil, people abbreviate their names, but Pedro used [...]