A Local Shared Resource, Not a Global Commodity by Jesse Lerner-Kinglake October 16, 2009 Today marks World Food Day, a UN initiative to raise global awareness of issues of food security for the world’s poorest. Yet any effort to solve the problem of hunger is set to fail unless we adopt a new approach to how the world [...]

The plastic bag levy must be extended to the containers holding the 130 million litres of water we drink annually, writes JOHN GIBBONS by John Gibbons October 15, 2009 Here’s a variation on the “waiter, there’s a fly in my soup” gag. The question is how would you persuade people to knowingly drink water from a bottle [...]

Una multinacional británica lava sus culpas con una barata indemnización. El hecho revela cómo los países industrializados utilizan al continente africano como su estercolero por Jorge L. Rodríguez González (jorgeluis@juventudrebelde.cu) 10 de Octubre del 2009 ¿Recuerdan el caso Pfizer Inc? Esta multinacional, famosa por producir la Viagra, intentaba salir ilesa de su crimen: la muerte de 11 niños [...]

La pandemia de la desocupación La no reactivación plena del consumo y la suba récord (indetenible) del desempleo mundial dispara alertas generalizadas de una crisis social con protestas masivas en gestación, principalmente en las potencias centrales con EEUU y Europa a la cabeza. Organismos claves del sistema como el FMI, la OIT, el Banco Mundial y [...]

Keith Olbermann on what really matters when it comes to health reform by Keith Olbermann October 7, 2009 Since August 23rd of this year I have interacted daily with our American Health Care system and often done so to the exclusion of virtually all other business. It is not undercover reporting, and it is not an expert study [...]

Desde Estocolmo, Lula llama a combatir el cambio climático por Afp y Dpa Sao Paulo, 6 de octubre. Unas 250 familias del Movimiento de Trabajadores Rurales Sin Tierra (MST) ocuparon este martes la plantación más grande de naranjos de Brasil, en el centro-oeste del estado de Sao Paulo, y fueron acusadas de haber destruido entre 5 mil [...]

Experiencias de resistencia y organización comunitarias en Argentina por Flavia Puel y Francisco Bosch 6 de octubre, 2009 Durante los años 1991-2001 fueron implementadas en Argentina, y en otros países, las políticas económicas fieles al modelo capitalista neoliberal de exclusión y desigualdad social, sobre todo aquellas denominadas de reajuste estructural. Miles de personas fueron perdiendo sus empleos, las [...]

by Robert Reich October 1, 2009 Unemployment will almost certainly in double-digits next year — and may remain there for some time. And for every person who shows up as unemployed in the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ household survey, you can bet there’s another either too discouraged to look for work or working part time who’d rather [...]

by Matthew Jaffe October 5, 2009 WASHINGTON – The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve lied to the American public last fall when they said that the first nine banks to receive government bailout funds were healthy, a government watchdog states in a new report released today. Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief [...]

by Chris Adams October 4, 2009 WASHINGTON — The federal government is engaged in a massive mortgage modification program that’s on track to send billions in tax dollars to many of the very companies that judges or regulators have cited in recent years for abusive mortgage practices. The firms, called mortgage servicers, have been cited for badgering, manipulating [...]