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VIDEO: The capitalist system needs patriarchal domination (tags)
Eric Toussaint is president of the Committee for the Cancellation of Third World Debt.
World Debt to stay unchanged by new IMF Chief (tags)
Recently, Lagarde, a French female economist, was selected as the new International Monetary Fund Chief. Does this signify gender progress for the IMF or does this media attention on gender deflect Third World problems caused by the IMF?
Greece must deny to pay an odious debt (tags)
In times of harsh neoliberal austerity and limited national sovereingty, the denial to pay an odious and illegitimate debt is a moral, political and social need. (by Nicolas Mottas/American Chronicle)
As long as the policies of the rich North represent a mixture of cruel carrot-and-stick maneuvers, coupled with basic contempt for the South, we can expect more lethal North-South tensions, more powerful boomerangs hurled back at us.
World forum seeks solutions to war, poverty (tags)
Forum registration lines reflected a rainbow of colors and ages. Young people were a very strong presence.
Genoa: who are the protesters? (tags)
Standoff A lone protester confronts a phalanx of Italian carabinieri in downtown Genoa. Photo: Darko Bandic, AP