Artículo publicado en Amauta con permiso especial del autor versión en inglés (original) abajo por Bill Quigley Traducción: José Luis Vivas, Rebelión Parte del sufrimiento de Haití es verdaderamente “Made in USA”. Si bien un terremoto así habría causado daños en cualquier país, las acciones llevadas a cabo por los Estados Unidos ciertamente han extremado esos daños en Haití. ¿Cómo? [...]

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 [...]

Traducción en español de las declaraciones de Naomi Klein abajo Source: Democracy Now! Journalist and author Naomi Klein spoke in New York last night and addressed the crisis in Haiti: “We have to be absolutely clear that this tragedy—which is part natural, part unnatural—must, under no circumstances, be used to, one, further indebt Haiti and, two, to [...]

This article is published in Amauta with special permission from the author by Bill Quigley One. Allow all Haitians in the US to work. The number one source of money for poor people in Haiti is the money sent from family and workers in the US back home. Haitians will continue to help themselves if given a [...]

The only way to stop global warming is for rich nations to pay for the damage they’ve done – or face the consequences by Naomi Klein November 11, 2009 One last chance to save the world – for months, that’s how the United Nations summit on climate change in Copenhagen, which starts in early December, was being [...]

The energy that drove Jubilee 2000 needs to be summoned again by Johann Hari September 18, 2009 Would you ever march up to a destitute African who is shivering with Aids and demand he “pay back” tens of thousands of pounds he didn’t borrow – with interest? I only ask because this is in effect happening, here, in [...]

by Daniel Cohen August 31, 2009 September 15, 2008, investment bank Lehman Brothers went bankrupt. As though prostrated by heart attack, the global economy collapsed. Even in 1929, the fall was less stark. A year has gone by. To put it briefly: governments “got the job done.” The financial system was saved; the drop in demand was [...]

by Anupama Narayanswamy and Luke Rosiak, Sunlight Foundation and Jennifer LaFleur, ProPublica August 18, 2009 In 2008, Bermuda’s influential reinsurance industry needed some help. Successive seasons of monster hurricanes in the United States, where much of its client base is, had cost these insurers of insurance companies $22 billion in losses. Eager to avoid a repeat — [...]

english (original) version below por Paul Craig Roberts 19 de agosto, 2009 “Dentro de poco no habrá clase media. Tendremos unos pocos, y sólo unos pocos lores, y todos los demás, mendigos.” R.L. Bushman “Nos estáis dividiendo rápidamente en dos clases – los extremadamente ricos y los extremadamente pobres.” “Bruto” Los estadounidenses piensan que tienen “libertad y democracia” [...]

Calling the Bank’s Bluff by Marshall Auerback August 14, 2009 Once all the TARPs are tidied up and the quarterly profits no longer a revelation, American consumers will still be swaddled in debt.  What’s to stop them from just walking away from it–and who’s to say, if the banks keep this kind of behavior up, we don’t want [...]