The United Nations-backed climate-change negotiations are now in deadlock, with many key issues still unresolved, mainly on emissions cuts and financing the developing world’s coping mechanisms.
Niemand zal gemist hebben dat in 2015 de Griekse burgers een poging hebben gedaan om zelf hun toekomst te bepalen. Dit leidde tot wat door de toen aftredende minister van Financiën Yanis Varoufakis betiteld werd als 'een regelrechte coup' door de Europese commissie en de Eurogroep onder leiding van 'onze' minister Dijsselbloem. Als reactie hebben Varoufakis en een keur aan andere linkse politieke leiders in Europa nu een manifest opgesteld voor een 'Plan B' voor Europa: de EU moet volgens hen drastisch democratiseren, of het zal uiteenvallen. Officieel heet het voorstel DiE·M·25: Democracy in Europe·Movement ·2025
Although initiated as a counter-forum to Davos, the World Social Forum has evolved beyond it now, focusing on the root causes of problems facing humanity and developing real alternatives as solutions.
El nuevo libro de Susan George, Sus crisis, nuestras soluciones (Icaria, 2010), analiza el régimen de globalización neoliberal e intenta explicar que las finanzas y la economía determinan un mundo enormemente desigual y que el planeta está viéndose reducido a la categoría de cantera y vertedero.
Boris Kagarlitsky, Dr. Chaohua Wang, Research Scholar in Chinese Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
21 January 2011
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The economic elites are turning to a neoliberal Keynesianism to save the crisis of capitalism, which is doomed to fail because it does not address its root causes.
Susan George, Iñaki Gabilondo, Ricardo García Zaldívar
03 May 2013
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Resumen de la presentación del libro El Informe Lugano II: Esta vez, vamos a liquidar la democracia, de Susan George, con Iñaki Gabilondo y Ricardo García Zaldívar (Attac España).
"The banks are ours!" Public money was used to bail out the banks, and now they are lending back to the public at interest, while governments ignore the social and environmental crises that confront society. It is time to demand real solutions that will work not only for the sake of the economy but for the lives and conditions of people on whom it depends.
This fully updated and expanded second edition of The Field Guide to the Global Economy presents the latest facts to help make sense of the rapidly changing international economy.
Neoliberal market capitalism has dragged the world into a crisis which threatens human civilisation. Climate destruction, resource wars, and the replacement of democracy by an oligarchy face us if we don't act now to reduce the burden we place on our planet and reorganise society on a more egalitarian basis.
