Malawi’s Farmers Face a Precarious Future From Climate Change-Related Storms
Malawi’s farmers—mostly women—lost their land, livestock, and livelihoods after a storm. They are struggling to recover in a nation considered one of the world’s most affected by extreme weather events.
Big Banks Break Their Climate Promises by Propping Up Big Meat
Massive industrial livestock financing sabotages major U.S. banks’ climate goals.
IMF US Economy Report
The US economy is performing well, but the government should look for ways to strengthen its fiscal position in the medium term by reducing spending and raising more revenue the IMF signaled Thursday, (June 27) in Washington, D.C. The world’s…
Navigating the Energy Transition: Renewables Abound, but Grid Challenges Loom
Renewable energy doesn’t matter if we can’t distribute it.
IMF Regular Briefing US / ECB / Debt
The fight against global inflation is reaching a stage where major advanced economies are reaching a point of divergence, the IMF signaled Thursday, (June 6) in Washington, D.C. The European Central Bank announced its first rate cut since 2019, when…
Roman Oligarchs Avoided Tax Liability and Restrictions on Land Size
The oligarchic tradition of land-grabbing and tax dodging goes back centuries.
How Solidarity Triumphs Over Corporate Greed
By David McCall Author Bio: David McCall is the international president of the United Steelworkers Union (USW). Source: Independent Media Institute Credit Line: This article was produced by the Independent Media Institute. Management at Amfuel tried to bully Jo Tucker…
Seven Features of Ancient Enterprise
By Michael Hudson Author Bio: Michael Hudson is an American economist, a professor of economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, and a researcher at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College. He is a former Wall Street analyst, political…
Plastic Pollution Is a Crime Against People and the Planet
By Erica Cirino Author Bio: Erica Cirino is a writer, artist, and author who explores the intersection of the human and more-than-human worlds. Her photographic and written works have appeared in Scientific American, the Guardian, VICE, Hakai Magazine, the Atlantic,…
Parallels Between Archaic Entrepots and Modern Offshore Banking Centers [eg Cayman Islands]
Offshore banking and tax-avoidance centers are nothing new; they’ve been with us for millennia.
