There are multiple similarities between Trump and the British monarch when looking at the 27 grievances the framers outlined in their 1776 declaration.
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Who Do They Represent: Davos and Its Threat to Democracy
It’s hard to keep a straight face when the world’s rich arrive annually in their private jets to the luxury ski-resort of Davos to express their deep concern about growing poverty, inequality and climate change.
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Davos: Climate-Related Catastrophe Is Biggest Threat to World Economy in 2016
The annual assessment of risks conducted by the World Economic Forum before its annual meeting next week showed that global warming had catapulted its way to the top of the list of concerns.
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Meet the "Emerging Market" Superstars of Global Economic Governance, Part II
Integration into the existing power structures of global economic governance requires, first and foremost, ideological capitulation: to accept the market system as the ideal form of the global economic order.
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Fast-Food Workers Launch Wave Of Strikes For 2016 Primaries
Fast-food workers announced Friday that an unprecedented wave of strikes and actions calling for $15 and union rights will hit this primary season to hammer home to candidates that the nearly 64 million Americans paid less than $15 an hour are a voting
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Meet the "Emerging Market" Superstars of Global Economic Governance, Part I
Introducing Agustin Carstens and Raghuram Rajan: one is Mexican, described by the Financial Times for his “Wall Street-sized reputation for financial wizardry,” and the other is Indian hailed by India’s Economic Times as “the Poster Boy of Banking.”
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Climate Protests In 10 U.S. Cities Call For Tougher Clean Power Plan
Environmental justice leaders from communities hardest-hit by climate change will converge Jan. 19 on regional EPA headquarters to denounce the mining, fracking, burning and dumping of waste threatening U.S. towns and cities.
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Richest 62 Billionaires As Wealthy As Half the World's Population
The vast and growing gap between rich and poor has been laid bare in a new Oxfam report showing that a handful of elites own as much wealth as the poorer half of the global population.
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How the Wealthy Are Ruining American Health Care
Corporate lobbyists and wealthy activists dictate much of American politics today – and nowhere is that clearer than in the political battle over the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, where uber-wealthy donors impair access to healthcare.
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Tipping Point for Anthropocene: Fossil Fuel Burning Is "Postponing the Next Ice Age"
“The bottom line is we are basically skipping a whole glacial cycle, which is unprecedented."
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To Put Bankers Behind Bars, Spanish Citizens Take the 1% to Court
Along with the infamous former politician and criminal bank chief Rodrigo Rato, 66 other Spanish bankers and politicians will face trial in 2016 for crimes committed before and during the financial crisis.
