This must-watch film documents how Britain evolved from a colonial power into a global financial power, capturing wealth from across the globe and hiding it behind obscure financial structures in a vast web of offshore islands… Read More The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire
America’s economy has become a capitalist dystopia… Read More Across the West Powerful Firms Are Becoming Even More Powerful
What we don’t know about the U.S. prosecution of Assange is virtually everything… Read More The Dangerous Rush to Judgment Against Julian Assange
Using a time-honored trick, a bipartisan congressional panel argues we should boost the president’s record defense bill even more.… Read More Trump’s Defense Spending Is Out of Control, and Poised to Get Worse
Civilian casualties in the three-year horror in Yemen has been vastly underestimated by mainstream organizations… Read More Yemeni War Deaths Have Been Underestimated by At Least 5 to 1
Debt Doesn’t Fuel Growth Anymore… Read More A Worldwide Debt Default Is A Real Possibility
Part of a global trend, as exasperated consumers are squealing, but no country has threatened to do what Mexico proposed.… Read More Bank Shares in Mexico (and Beyond) Plunge as Incoming Government Threatens Core Business: Fee Gouging
While the media focused on Julian Assange’s cat rather than his continuing arbitrary detention, evidence shows that Britain worked hard to force his extradition to Sweden where Assange feared he could then be turned over to the U.S.… Read More The West Is Failing Julian Assange
Demonetisation disproportionately hurt the poor, as they were robbed of the free means of payment that they used to have at their disposal: cash… Read More Don’t Believe the Hype: Demonetisation in India Was a Great Success — For the Better Than Cash Alliance
Sometimes the real world really is stranger than fiction… Read More 1MDB Is a Nutty Story. Here’s Why
Italy is in meltdown, Hungary in open revolt, and the US wants a trade war. Small wonder Europe’s leaders haven’t got much time for Brits… Read More Why Brexit Is Just a Sideshow for an EU Beset by Problems on All Sides
But new high-end towers will continue to flood the market.… Read More “Posh Ghost Towers” of London: Gloom Spreads Over Housing Market as High End Freezes Up
