- Break away from conventional trickle-down economics.
A future-friendly economics is necessary, and possible.Poverty is man-made, and not inevitable.
Produced by a myopic worldview, there is an alternative.
Monthly Archives: April 2015
Video: Richard Trumka and Reiner Hoffmann on TTIP
The German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Washington organised an event on TTIP with the President of the German trade union confederation DGB, Reiner Hoffmann, and his US counterpart, Richard Trumka, the President of the AFL-CIO. … Continue reading
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Myths of Free Trade: Attac Refutes TTIP Arguments
Myths of Free Trade: Attac Refutes TTIP Arguments http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2015/04/429740.shtml TTIP and Ceta are far more than trade agreements. They help strengthen the power of transnational corporations and weaken democratic institutions. Attac promotes just trade instead of fair trade. Labor rights, … Continue reading
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Politics Faded Out the Constitutional Offensiveness of Trade Agreements
Politics Faded Out the Constitutional Offensiveness of Trade Agreements by Alex Flessner, Joachim Baertner and Silvia Liebrich http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2015/04/429676.shtml The arbitration jurisdiction with the ISDS mechanism is the most controversial point of the two trade agreements CETA and TTIP. US corporations … Continue reading
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Fast Track, TPP and TTIP Should Be Scrapped! Thilo Bode on “The Free Trade Lie”
Fast Track, TPP and TTIP Should Be Scrapped! Thilo Bode in his new book “The Free Trade Lie” (March 2015) calls the TTIP “Impudence” How scandalous that communities and states could lose sovereignty to corporations! In the TTIP, corporations can … Continue reading
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TTIP: Corporate Interests Against Citizens
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2015/04/429567.shtml by Maja Volland, March 2015 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2015/04/429567.shtml The regulatory approaches of the EU and the US are fundamentally different. In the EU, environmental and consumer protection function according to the principle of precaution. State regulations protect the environment and health. … Continue reading
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Video: Meltdown: The Secret History of the Global Financial Meltdown, Sept 2011, 42 min
Video: Meltdown: The Secret History of the Global Financial Collapse, Sept 2011, 42 min http://www.openculture.com/2011/09/meltdown_the_men_who_crashed_the_world.html Doc Zone, a documentary series produced by CBC Television, is now airing, Meltdown, a four part investigation into the great financial debacle of 2008. Along … Continue reading
Partially Examined Life – Kierkegaard on the Self, 32 min
A philosophy podcast & blog. Enjoy! http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2010/11/21/episode-29-kierkegaard-on-the-self/ Discussing Soren Kierkegaard’s “The Sickness Unto Death” (1849). This is a 32-minute preview of our vintage 1 hr, 56-minute episode which you can buy at partiallyexaminedlife.com/store or get for free with PEL Citizenship … Continue reading
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