Money as Debt
Money is a new form of slavery and is only distinguishable from the old slavery simply by the fact that it is impersonal–that there is no human relation between master and slave. Debt in government,...
View ArticleThe Ascent of Money
For millions of people, the global economic collapse has generated a thirst for knowledge about how money systems really work, especially when so many financial pundits seem to be equally baffled. In...
View ArticleLife and Debt
Life and Debt addresses the impact of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and current globalisation policies in a country such as Jamaica. By focusing...
View ArticleWar By Other Means
John Pilger examines the policy of western banks making loans with third world countries, which are then unable to meet the crippling interest charges — debt is a weapon. It also analyses ‘Structural...
View ArticleCatastroïka — Privatisation Goes Public
Catastroïka follows the global trend of privatisations in the past two decades, extrapolating the forthcoming results of the current sell-off in Greece, which has been demanded in order to face the...
View ArticleThe End of Poverty?
The End of Poverty? traces the growth of global poverty back to colonisation in the 15th century to reveal why it’s not an accident or simple bad luck that there is a growing underclass around the...
View ArticleOverdose: The Next Financial Crisis
With the recent global financial crisis, governments across the world promised decisive action — the biggest financial stimulus packages in history, along with gargantuan bail-outs of corporations and...
View ArticleSlavery — A 21st Century Evil
Far from ending with the abolition of slavery, the trade in human beings is thriving more than ever before. Today, 27 million men, women and children are held, sold and trafficked as slaves throughout...
View ArticleRequiem for the American Dream
In Requiem for the American Dream, renowned intellectual figure Noam Chomsky deliberates on the defining characteristics of our time—the colossal concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the...
View ArticleQuants: The Alchemists of Wall Street
“Quants” are the mathematicians, software developers and computer programmers at the centre of the global economy. These are the people who designed the “complex financial products” that caused the...
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