2008 economic crisis
Bank privatization isn’t conducive for financial markets under capitalism
State ownership of banks not only provides for wider reach of institutional credit but also for stability of the financial system of capitalism itself
15% tax on Corporates: Moral victory for developing countries but little else
Professor Biswajit Dhar of India’s Jawaharlal Nehru University talks about the recent agreement among close to 150 countries to impose a minimum of 15% tax on big corporates
The revolutionaries, when they rise, care for nothing but love
In his weekly newsletter for the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, Vijay Prashad discusses the 10 year anniversary of the beginning of the “Arab Spring”
The exodus of finance from the third world
This unwillingness of finance to stay in, or move to, the Third World, is impairing the ability of several countries to pay for their imports and to service their external debt
- Ambulance drivers and nurses strike in Croatia
- IRGC colonel assassinated in Tehran, Iran vows revenge
- Iraqi leftist poet Muthaffar al-Nawab dies aged 88
- First commercial flight in last six years takes off from Yemen’s Sanaa airport
- Cuba describes easing of US sanctions as “a limited step in the right direction”
