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March 12, 2010
3/12/10 Bello, Asia Times, China lassoes its neighbors
March 11, 2010
3/11/10 BBC, BP in $7bn deal to explore for oil in Brazil
March 10, 2010
3/10/10 Lendman, Intel Daily, The Business of Water: Privatizing An Essential Resource
3/10/10 Roberts, Guardian, The debt that lies beneath
March 9, 2010
3/09/10 BBC, Brazil Slaps Trade Sanctions on US Over Cotton Dispute
March 7, 2010
3/07/10 Vidal, Guardian, How Food and Water Are Driving a 21st-Century African Land Grab
3/07/10 BBC, Iceland rejects plan to repay Icesave debts
3/07/10 BBC, Azerbaijan's long lifers 'a dying breed'
March 5, 2010
2/25/10 Drake, FPIF 3/5/10, Ghana's 2010 oil 'boom': Ensuring public interest over private gain
3/05/10 BBC, Singapore boosts security over threat to oil tankers
March 4, 2010
3/04/10 AFP, Katrina Victims Seek to Sue Greenhouse Gas Emitters
March 3, 2010
3/03/10 BBC, South Africa black-owned farms 'failing'
March 2, 2010
3/02/10 Hampson, USA Today, New Ghost Towns: Industrial Communities Teeter on the Edge
3/02/10 Cramer, MoJo, A Five-Step Guide To Real Financial Reform
3/02/10 Wong, NYT, Officials in China at Odds Over Food Scandal
3/02/10 BBC, GM potato cleared for EU farming
March 1, 2010
3/01/10 Barr, WP, UK's Prudential buys AIG's Asian unit for $35.5B
3/01/10 Al Jazeera, Firms face Zimbabwe ownership law
3/01/10 Marquand, CSM, Greek debt crisis: High stakes game of financial chicken
3/01/10 Kavuma, Guardian, The rights approach to development
3/01/10 BBC, Chile quake sends copper prices higher
February 26, 2010
2/26/10 WorldFocus, Indigenous communities struggle for global recognition
February 25, 2010
2/26/10 Goldstein, NPR, AIG: Still Losing Money!
February 24, 2010
2/24/10 Sharife, FPIF, Climate Change's Secret Weapon
2/24/10 ENS, Smart Centers Planned to Recycle Mountains of Toxic E-Waste
2/24/10 Tighe, BBC, 'Date-rape drugs' are on the rise, UN warns
2/24/10 Black, BBC, A stark snapshot of nature loss
February 23, 2010
2/23/10 Elliott, Guardian, Too soon to cut public spending, IMF warns
2/23/10 Jena, IPS, INDIA: Indigenous Groups Step Up Protests Over Mining Project
2/23/10 Watts, Guardian, China's soil deterioration may become growing food crisis, adviser claims
February 22, 2010
2/22/10 Leahy, IPS, ENVIRONMENT: Tsunami of E-Waste Could Swamp Developing Countries
February 19, 2010
2/19/10 Irving, Guardian, How fair trade can help tackle poverty and bring peace to conflict zones
2/19/10 Davies, Guardian, The great economics rift reopens
February 18, 2010
2/18/10 Gantz, ITT, Helping Haiti, for a Price
2/18/10 Guardian, The National Geographic archives: Agriculture in Ecuador Video
February 17, 2010
2/17/10 BBC, Oil deal 'damaging for Uganda environment'
2/17/10 Kaiser Foundation, Additional 4M People In Asia Could Fall To 'Extreme Poverty' Level This Year, Report Says
2/17/10 Berrigan, MoJo, America's Global Weapons Monopoly
February 15, 2010
2/15/10 Macalister, Guardian, Oil Giants Demand Open Market for World's Dirtiest Fuel
February 14, 2010
2/14/10 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, Goldman Goes Rogue - Special European Audit To Follow
February 13, 2010
2/13/10 Story et al, NYT, Wall St. Helped Greece to Mask Debt Fueling Europe's Crisis
February 11, 2010
2/11/10 Fekete, Asia Times, When money refuses to flow uphill
2/11/10 Klein, Nation, Haiti: A Creditor, Not a Debtor
February 10, 2010
2/10/10 Vistesen, Guardian, Keeping the eurozone afloat
2/10/10 BBC, US trade deficit widens as imports outpace exports
February 9, 2010
2/09/10 Hickman, Independent, Palm Oil Deal 'A Threat to the Rainforest'
2/09/10 BBC, India suspends first GM food crop on safety grounds
February 8, 2010
2/08/10 Gail, Oil Drum, Delusions of Finance: Where We are Headed
2/08/10 Swanson, The Hill, Obama Starts New Push on 'Free Trade' Deals
2/08/10 Leahy, IPS, BIODIVERSITY: Companies Push Hard to Halt Tuna Collapse
2/08/10 Burke, Guardian, India to rule on future of aubergine as country's first genetically modified food
February 7, 2010
2/07/10 Elliott, Guardian, G7 close to accord on banks paying for global recession
2/07/10 Johnson, Baseline Scenario, Europe Risks Another Global Depression
2/07/10 Al Jazeera, G7 pledges to wipe out Haiti debt
2/07/10 BBC, UK economy 'faces crisis' warns former IMF economist
February 6, 2010
2/06/10 Grey, WSWS, Sovereign debt fears signal new stage of global crisis
2/06/10 Faiola, NYT, Debt crisis unsettles European economy
January 29, 2010
1/29/10 Reuters, U.N. trade body calls for write-off of Haiti's debt
January 27, 2010
1/27/10 Ayala, IPS, EL SALVADOR: Activists Link Mining Co. to Murders
1/26/10 Reuters, Afghanistan wins $1.6 billion in debt relief: IMF
January 26, 2010
1/26/10 Grey, WSWS, Fallout from Washington crisis rattles world markets
1/26/10 Van Auken, WSWS, "Reconstructing Haiti" on starvation wages
1/26/10 EDIE, Invasive alien species measured for the first time
January 23, 2010
1/23/10 Estrada, IPS, CHILE: Water a Matter of National Security
1/23/10 BBC, Nigeria religious riot bodies found in village wells
January 22, 2010
1/22/10 Collins, IntelDaily, It's the "New Haiti!"
1/22/10 WorldFocus, Money and politics at issue in countries around the world
January 21, 2010
1/21/10 BBC, Online music piracy 'destroys local music'
January 20, 2010
1/20/10 ENS, Thirst for Oil Imperils South America's Most Biodiverse Wilderness
1/20/10 Kim, Nation, IMF Clarifies Terms of Haiti's Loan
1/20/10 BBC, Chinese lending fears hit bank shares
1/20/10 BBC, Nigeria riot city under control, says army chief
January 18, 2010
1/18/10 Roy, ITT, India's Trail of Tears
January 17, 2010
1/17/10 McKenzie, IPS, FRANCE: Time to Pay Back Haiti
1/17/10 Doward, Guardian, Eastern European immigration 'has hit low-paid Britons'
January 16, 2010
1/16/10 Chung & Guerrara, FT, SEC subpoenas big banks over CDOs
January 15, 2010
1/15/10 Cutter, PSL, Environmental refugees flooding cities in poorest nations
1/15/10 Whitfield, TruthOut, Global Auction of Public Assets
1/15/10 Kim, Nation,
1/15/10 BBC, Most Indian plastic toys are 'toxic'
1/15/10 Rizvi, IPS, UN Condemns Land Grabs in Native Territories
1/15/10 Osava, IPS, BRAZIL: 'Colonisation Made Us Poor,' Say Indigenous Peoples
1/15/10 Reuters, Zoellick says crisis effects will last for years
January 14, 2010
1/14/10 Devraj, IPS, India Holds Public Meetings on GM Food Crop
1/14/10 Henley, Guardian, Haiti: a long descent to hell
January 12, 2010
1/12/10 BBC, US trade gap widens sharply as imports grow
January 11, 2010
1/11/10 Mufson, WP, In China, fear of a real estate bubble
January 10, 2010
1/10/10 Tucker, FT, Insurers rush to strike Asian deals
1/10/10 Al Jazeera, China becomes biggest exporter
1/10/10 Aizenman, WP, Immigrants invest in U.S. businesses in exchange for visas
1/10/10 Beaumont, Guardian, Violence, fear and confusion: welcome to the Horn of Africa
January 9, 2010
1/09/10 BBC, Migrants evacuated from southern Italian town
1/09/10 Hooper. Guardian, Racial violence continues in Italy as four migrant workers wounded in shootings
January 7, 2010
1/07/10 Klare, Asia Times, The blowback effect, 2020
January 6, 2010
1/06/10 Costello, NPR, Why The Bond Market Rules The World
1/06/10 Lerner, CNN, Vandana Shiva: Farmer Suicides in India Linked to Debt, Globalization
1/06/10 Drawbaugh & Jones, Reuters, Global financial regulation overhaul seen in 2010
January 5, 2010
1/05/10 BBC, Cocaine cargo hidden in bananas reaches shops in Spain
1/05/10 Kay, FT, The cause of our crises has not gone away
1/05/10 Clark, CSM, Environment: In Peru's Amazon, finding gold but leaving mercury
January 4, 2010
1/04/10 Bezlova, IPS, POLITICS: Backlash against Rogue Chinese Investors Alarms Beijing
1/04/10 BBC, Singapore economy sees contraction
January 3, 2010
1/03/10 Kakissis, NYT, Environmental Refugees Unable to Return Home
January 2, 2010
1/02/10 Gordon, McClatchy, Goldman's Offshore Deals Deepened Global Financial Crisis
1/02/10 Milmo, Independent, Concern as China Clamps Down on Rare Earth Exports
December 31, 2009
12/31/09 Carroll, Guardian, Gold giant faces Honduras inquiry into alleged heavy metal pollution
12/31/09 BBC, Iceland approves new Icesave deal
12/31/09 BBC, China central bank chief Zhou says 2010 is key
December 29, 2009
12/29/09 Carver, FT, Russia to curb speculative capital inflows
12/29/09 Teather, Guardian, From dotcom bust to banking meltdown: the decade in business
December 28, 2009
12/28/09 Spence, IntelDaily, Ever Expanding Wars: An Appalling New Year Certainty
December 25, 2009
12/25/09 Greer, IntelDaily, The Political Ecology of Collapse, Part Three: The Bomb at the Heart of the System
December 24, 2009
12/24/09 BBC, Obama curbs trade benefits for several African nations
December 23, 2009
12/23/09 BBC, Vietnam secures $500m loan from World Bank
12/23/09 BBC, India visa move brings complaints
12/23/09 BBC, Nestle shuts Zimbabwe milk plant citing harassment
12/23/09 Mouawad, NYT, Chilly Climate for Oil Refiners
December 21, 2009
12/21/09 Ley, BBC, Greek finances face 'credibility gap'
12/21/09 Reuters, Sanofi-Aventis Buys Chattem for $1.9 Billion
December 20, 2009
12/20/09 BBC, Climate summit most chaotic show on earth - Miliband
12/20/09 Wong, NYT, China's Export of Labor Faces Scorn
December 18, 2009
12/18/09 BBC, China ends brand subsidies behind WTO dispute with US
December 16, 2009
12/16/09 Socialist Worker, Greece's crisis is a warning to the world
12/16/09 WW$ Report, NAFTA failed Mexico: Carnegie think tank
12/17/09 Burton, BBC, Scotland's deer are changing shape due to hybridisation
12/16/09 Flood, FT, Roubini warns of correction to 'bullion bubble'
December 15, 2009
12/15/09 Prakash, WSWS, India: Soaring food prices place tens of millions at risk
12/15/09 EDIE, REDD the victim of stalled COP15
12/15/09 BBC, EU cuts import tariffs in a bid to end 'banana wars'
December 14, 2009
12/14/09 Leonard, AP, Monsanto Stomps Down Budding Seed Competitors
12/14/09 Bauer, KC Star, Sex slaves often victimized twice in U.S. trafficking war
12/14/09 Wearden, Guardian, Dubai receives a $10bn bailout from Abu Dhabi
December 13, 2009
12/13/09 Syal, Guardian, Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor
December 12, 2009
12/12/09 BBC, US and Japan agree on open skies deal
December 11, 2009
12/11/09 BBC, EU climate cash pledge 'not enough' say small nations
12/11/09 Davis, The Age, Joyce's Armageddon warning
12/11/09 Johnson, Guardian, Google backs world's fastest internet cable
12/11/09 BBC, Every third Indian 'under poverty line'
12/11/09 BBC. Greek government bonds have biggest drop in 11 years
December 10, 2009
12/10/09 Kaiser Daily, Global Food Prices Reach 14-Month High, FAO Report Says
December 7, 2009
12/07/09 Woods, FPIF, Africa and the Economic Crisis
December 6, 2009
12/06/09 England, FT, Kuwait fund sells $4bn Citi stake
12/06/09 Purvis, Guardian, Wake up and smell the biodynamic coffee
December 4, 2009
12/04/09 Schmidle, NYT, The Hostage Business
December 2, 2009
12/02/09 Al Jazeera, Peru tribe threatened by hepatitis
12/02/09 Durden, Zero Hedge, Charting The Great World Trade Collapse
December 1, 2009
12/01/09 Feffer, FPIF, Why Dubai?
November 30, 2009
11/30/09 Teather, Guardian, Billions wiped off markets as Dubai returns to work
11/30/09 CNN, Dubai shares plummet 7%
11/30/09 Timmons, NYT, Dubai Crisis Tests Laws of Islamic Financing
November 28, 2009
11/28/09 Carvalho, Reuters, Abu Dhabi to aid Dubai on "case by case" basis
November 27, 2009
11/27/09 Guardian, Brazilian president says 'gringos' must pay to protect Amazon
November 26, 2009
11/26/09 Reuters, Wal-Mart Price Pressure Hurts China Workers: Report
11/26/09 Godoy, IPS, LABOUR-MEXICO: Manufacturing Poverty for Women
11/26/09 Elliott & Stewart, Guardian, Fears of double-dip recession grow as Dubai crashes
November 25, 2009
11/25/09 Teather, Guardian, Dubai World seeks debt standstill
November 24, 2009
11/24/09 Reuters, Global sovereign debt to hit $49.5 trln-Moody's
November 22, 2009
11/22/09 Al Jazeera, Unborn children for sale in S Korea
November 21, 2009
11/18/09 Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph, Société Générale tells clients how to prepare for potential 'global collapse'
November 20, 2009
11/19/09 Sharife, FPIF, The Battle for Angola's Oil
November 19, 2009
11/18/09 MCLaughlin, CNN, Expert: Child traffickers target runaways, 'throwaways'
November 18, 2009
11/18/09 BBC, Poor women 'bear climate burden'
November 17, 2009
11/17/09 Chaffin, FT, Deal nears to end 'banana wars'
11/17/09 Traub, Nation, Getting Tough on Exploitation
11/17/09 Greenhouse, NYT, Labor Fight Ends in Win for Students
11/17/09 Smith, Guardian, Goldminers sue for lung disease payout
November 16, 2009
11/16/09 Richburg, WP, For U.S., China, uneasiness about economic co-dependency
11/16/09 GRAIN, Worlwide Corporate Control of Agriculture: The New Farm Owners
November 13, 2009
11/13/09 PressTV, World Bank warns of more unemployment in 2010
11/13/09 IRIN, World hunger increases despite growth in food production
11/13/09 Michael, IPS, UGANDA: "Mount Elgon Eviction Has Reduced Us to Beggars"*
11/13/09 Collinson, Guardian, House price drop indicates 'double-dip' for property market
11/13/09 Butt, Guardian, Migration is spreading creationism across Europe, claims academic
11/13/09 BBC, US trade gap widens unexpectedly
November 12, 2009
11/12/09 BBC, Oil rise 'could derail recovery'
11/12/09 KFF, Almost 200M Undernourished Children Worldwide, Report Says
November 10, 2009
11/10/09 BBC, 'Toxic' US ship banned in India
11/10/09 Minter & Wheeler, FPIF, Climate Change and Africa's Natural Resources
November 9, 2009
11/09/09 Fraser, BBC, China's chequebook draws African nations
11/09/09 Robbins, BBC, Free market flawed, says survey
11/09/09 BBC, Corruption costs $1.6tn, UN says
11/09/09 Ethirajan, BBC, Australia tackles refugee source
November 7, 2009
11/07/09 Robles, McClatchy, Coal Ash from U.S. Blamed for Dominican Town's Birth Defects
11/07/09 Sirota, ITT, We Are What We Trade and How We Trade It
November 6, 2009
11/06/09 BBC, Why Ugandans want to work in Iraq
11/06/09 Pai, Progressive, Crunch Time for Planet Earth
11/06/09 Hornby, Reuters, China blasts U.S. duties ahead of Obama visit
11/06/09 BBC, Two decades since the Berlin Wall came down, BBC Mundo looks at walls and barriers around the world which are still standing - or have been put up - since 1989.
11/06/09 Moya, Guardian, Mandelson: EU must not stifle investment
11/06/09 BBC, Niger-Nigeria 'blockade' mystery
November 5, 2009
11/05/09 Kaiser, Wall Street Journal Examines Big Pharma's 'Growing Interest' In Emerging-Market Vaccine Development, Production
November 4, 2009
11/04/09 Grey, WSWS, Workers' wages to fall further, International Labour Organization warns
November 3, 2009
11/03/09 Alexander & Ordonez, Charlotte Observer, Crux of immigration case: Did bosses know?
11/03/09 Gordon, McClatchy, Goldman left foreign investors holding the subprime bag
November 2, 2009
11/02/09 BBC, South Sudan awaits oil bonanza
11/02/09 Kwenda, IPS, ZIMBABWE: Far From the City's Money, Villagers Barter Again
November 1, 2009
11/01/09 Gordon, McClatchy, How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash
October 31, 2009
10/31/09 Hoeksema, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Hunger and Conflict Go Hand in Hand
10/31/09 Bloomberg, China Warns of World Slump If Stimulus Withdrawn
10/31/09 Devraj, IPS, RIGHTS: Rising China Poses Danger to Peace, Say Nobel Laureates
October 30, 2009
10/30/09 Roy, Guardian, The heart of India is under attack or here
10/30/09 Marks, CSM, Rising tide of asylum-seekers: Will Australia let them in?
10/30/09 Estremera, IPS, PHILIPPINES: Children Worst Hit by Economic Crisis
10/30/09 BBC, Africa backs Darfur crimes court
10/30/09 Sudworth, BBC, Web to be truly worldwide at last
October 29, 2009
10/29/09 ISN, Dirty Diamonds in Panama
10/29/09 Etim, All Africa, Group Challenges Oil Firms On Land Encroachment in Africa
10/29/09 Perez-Rocha, FPIF, More Than Backpedaling on NAFTA
October 28, 2009
10/28/09 Berger, IPS, ECUADOR: Oil Giant Is Gone, Legal and Environmental Mess Remains
October 27, 2009
10/27/09 Feffer, FPIF, Lords of Misrule
10/27/09 Campos, FPIF, The Struggle Against Free Trade Continues
October 26, 2009
10/26/09 Marks, Independent, Illegal Logging Responsible for Loss of 10 Million Hectares in Indonesia
10/26/09 Kokutse, IPS, AFRICA: Broken Promises Litter the Aftermath of Global Crisis
10/26/09 Nieuwoudt, IPS, TRADE: What Will China's Legacy in Africa be by 2049?
10/26/09 Macan-Markar, IPS, TRADE-SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Rice Tariffs Snarl ASEAN Single Market
October 25, 2009
10/25/09 Deep Journal, Mike Ruppert is back from the wilderness with documentary CoLLapse
10/25/09 Doward, Guardian, Colombia's endangered species at the mercy of jungle drug cartels
10/25/09 Hutton, Guardian, Mervyn King is right - the time has come to break up the megabanks
10/25/09 Oakley, FT, Big shift benefits emerging markets or here
10/25/09 Johnson, FT, Private equity's love affair with leverage or here
10/25/09 FT. Unbelievable returns, thanks to government or here
10/25/09 Rousseau, FT, Absolute return funds need risk benchmarks or here
10/25/09 Uhifelder, FT, Hedge funds scramble to install damage limitation or here
10/25/09 Triana, FT, Blame toxic lethality not complexity or here
10/25/09 Stelzer, TimesOnline, Global economy has no substitute for falling dollar
October 24, 2009
10/24/09 CNN, China only trails U.S. in billionaires
October 23, 2009
10/23/09 Sidner, CNN, Farmers sell wives to pay debts in rural India
October 22, 2009
10/22/09 Yi, AFP, Orangutans Struggle to Survive as Palm Oil Booms
10/22/09 Carlsen, FPIF, Mexico's Union Bust Reveals Flaws in NAFTA
October 20, 2009
10/20/09 Wheatley, FT, Brazil imposes tax on foreign investments
October 19, 2009
10/19/09 Hourheld, AP, Destruction of Kenya's forest feeds deadly drought
10/19/09 Telegraph, Claims police tortured Peruvian protesters outside British-owned mine
10/19/09 BBC, Nigeria 'to give 10% of oil cash'
October 18, 2009
10/18/09 Ayala, IPS, MIGRATION-EL SALVADOR: Broken Homes, Broken Families
10/18/09 Maynard, NYT, A Lifeline Not Made in the U.S.A.
October 17, 2009
10/17/09 Colls, BBC, The death of language?
10/17/09 BBC, 'Toxic waste' report gag lifted
October 16, 2009
10/16/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Funding Sweatshops Globally
10/16/09 Bower, Guardian, Held over a barrel
October 14, 2009
10/14/09 BBC, Global hunger worsening, warns UN
October 13, 2009
10/13/09 Mouawad & Revkim, NYT, Saudis Seek Payments for Any Drop in Oil Revenues
10/13/09 Rogers, Miami Herald, Costa Rica draws sex trade
10/13/09 BBC, Guinea confirms huge China deal
10/13/09 BBC, UN Philippines fund 'falls short'
October 11, 2009
10/11/09 Vidal, Guardian, Millions Will Starve as Rich Nations Cut Food Aid Funding, Warns UN
10/11/09 BBC, Russia economy 'to shrink 7.5%'
October 8, 2009
10/08/09 MacDonald, Irish Times, G8 States Could Face Class Actions on Climate Change
October 7, 2009
10/07/09 Wayne, NYT, Thousands of U.S. Homeowners Cite Drywall for Ills
10/07/09 BBC, In pictures: Monuments under threat
October 6, 2009
10/06/09 Appel, IPS, FINANCE: IMF Loan Policies Worsening Crisis, NGOs Say
10/06/09 Caldwell, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Resource Crunch Signals Larger Ecological Crisis
10/06/09 Haviland, BBC, Sri Lanka refugees plead for freedom
10/06/09 Kennedy, BBC, Citizen patrols hit Italy streets
October 5, 2009
10/05/09 Frayssinet, IPS, BRAZIL: Agribusiness Driving Land Concentration
10/05/09 Fisk, Independent, The Demise of the Dollar
10/05/09 Hoekema, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Migrants Give More than They Take, Says U.N.
10/05/09 Dugger, NYT, Contention Over Rankings of African Nations
October 4, 2009
10/04/09 Chimtom, IPS, CAMEROON: 'Our Lives Are Defined By This Forest'
10/04/09 Elliott, Guardian, G7 elite group makes way for G20 and emerging nations
10/04/09 Torchia, BusinessWeek, IMF pledges voting reform
10/04/09 Jagan, IPS, ENVIRONMENT: Nations Urged to Share Low Carbon Development Costs
10/04/09 Schifferes, BBC, Pledge for more IMF help for poor
October 3, 2009
10/03/09 Thomas, NYT, Offshore Haven Is Forced to Consider a Heresy, Collecting Taxes
10/03/09 Torchia, Reuters, G7 considering its future, may form smaller group
October 2, 2009
10/02/09 Kennedy & Brown, Bloomberg, G-7 May Break With Currency Tradition as Status Fades
10/02/09 Rozoff, IntelDaily, Thousand Deadly Threats: Third Millennium NATO, Western Businesses Collude On New Global Doctrine
10/02/09 Castillo, CNN, U.S. immigrant population flat, Census numbers show
10/02/09 Llana, CSM, South America: Will defense spending trigger an arms race?
October 1, 2009
10/01/09 Devraj, IPS, DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Farmers Vs Coca-Cola in Water Wars
10/01/09 Gibson, MoJo, Joe Berlinger: Welcome to the Jungle
September 30, 2009
9/30/09 Engler, FPIF, Casino Capitalism as Usual
9/30/09 AP, GM to shut down Saturn after Penske walks away
9/30/09 Goodchild, CounterCurrents, Systemic Collapse: The Basics
9/30/09 Goldenberg, Guardian, By 2050, 25m more children will go hungry as climate change leads to food crisis
9/30/09 BBC, IMF cuts crisis losses prediction
September 29, 2009
9/29/09 BBC, Japan prices continue record fall
9/29/09 Aloisi, Reuters, 'Modern Slave' Migrants Toil in Italy's Tomato Fields
9/29/09 Collins, IntelDaily, The G-20 Announces the "New World Order"
9/29/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, The G20, The IMF, And Legitimacy
9/29/09 IntelDaily, Video: Provocateur Cops Disguised As Anarchists At G20, Pittsburgh
September 28, 2009
9/28/09 Quigley, TruthOut, Street Report From the G20
9/28/09 Stewart, Guardian, US dollar set to be eclipsed, World Bank president predicts
9/28/09 Mpaka, IPS, MALAWI: Surplus Crop, But We Are Starving - Farmers
September 26, 2009
9/26/09 Moraff, ITT, Protesting the G-20 Summit
9/26/09 Wintoru & Clark, Guardian, G20 leaders map out new economic order at Pittsburgh summit
9/26/09 Walker, BBC, Will tough new G20 measures work?
September 25, 2009
9/25/09 Moberg, ITT, The Retail Devolution
9/25/09 BBC, Australia seeks investment limits
9/25/09 BBC, Mugabe: West 'dividing Zimbabwe'
9/25/09 Sterns, CNN,
September 24, 2009
9/24/09 FPIF, People's Voices: Challenging the G20's Agenda of Corporate Globalization, September 2009
9/24/09 VOA, Chinese Companies Continue Global Expansion in Resources Sector
September 23, 2009
9/23/09 BBC, EU unveils new 'super-regulators'
September 22, 2009
9/22/09 Schiff, AsiaTimes, Autopsies miss Lehman lesson
September 21, 2009
9/21/09 Bull, Reuters, U.S. to push for new economic world order at G20
9/21/09 Willard, Reuters, Europe, U.S., China must take IMF medicine: Trichet
9/21/09 Marquez, IPS, LATIN AMERICA: Food Crisis Must Be Regional Priority
September 20, 2009
9/19/09 Martin, NYT, So Much Food. So Much Hunger.
September 19, 2009
9/19/09 Hamilton & Devlin, TimesOnline, Paying poor foreign women for eggs is 'a kind of prostitution' says fertility expert
9/18/09 Morgan, Reuters, Mosquito-borne African virus a new threat to West
9/19/09 Clark, Guardian, IMF approves $13bn gold sale to aid poor states
9/19/09 Allen, Asia Times, China in Laos: Counting the cost of progress
September 18, 2009
9/18/09Willoughby, IntelDaily, The World Seed Conference: Good for Farmers?
September 17, 2009
9/17/09 Page, TimesOnline, India's damned generation: young go hungry despite economic boom
9/17/09 Gibbs, TimesOnleine, Trafigura offers deal to 31,000 Africans over dumped waste
9/17/09 Rice, Guardian, Almost 4 million Kenyans on food aid as drought deepens
September 16, 2009
9/16/09 Shin, WP, World Bank: Poor Face Long Recovery
9/16/09 Webster, Times Online, World Bank Spends Billions on Coal-Fired Power Stations Despite Own Warnings
September 15, 2009
9/15/09 Al Jazeera, China takes US trade spat to WTO
9/15/09 Mufson & Whoriskey, WP, Threat of Trade War With China Sparks Worries in a Debtor U.S.
September 14, 2009
9/14/09 Buckley, Reuters, U.S. tire duties fuel trade tension with China
9/14/09 BBC, Migrants risk lives for Europe
9/14/09 BBC, Eyewitness: Guatemala food crisis
9/14/09 Finch & Bowers, Guardian, Executive pay keeps rising, Guardian survey finds
September 13, 2009
9/13/09 Parry, Daily Mail Online, Revealed: The ghost fleet of the recession
9/13/09 Mathiason, Guardian, Britain 'may be forced to bail out tax havens'
9/13/09 BBC, TUC warns of four million jobless
September 12, 2009
9/12/09 Reuters, Global economic crisis to continue: IMF chief
9/12/09 Johar, IPS, MINING-INDIA: Woman Leads Tribals Against World's Steel Maker
September 11, 2009
9/11/09 Gonzalez, IPS, CENTRAL AMERICA: Crisis Chews Women Up, Spits Them Out
September 10, 2009
9/10/09 Chovanex, AsiaTimes, Obama in showdown over Chinese tires
9/10/09 Kramer & Revkin, NYT, Arctic Shortcut Beckons Shippers as Ice Thaws
September 8, 2009
9/08/09 Mitchell, AlterNet, How the World's Biggest Corporations, From Starbucks to Wal-Mart to Barnes & Noble, Claim to Be 'Local'
9/08/09 Walker, BBC, Recession moves migration patterns
September 6, 2009
9/06/09 Corcoran, Irish Times, S Africa Backs Action in US on Firms Linked to Apartheid
9/06/09 Moya, Guardian, Lehman assets considerably reduced, say receivers
9/06/09 BBC, Economy 'to bounce back by 2010'
September 4, 2009
9/04/09 Smith, Guardian, IMF provides $510m loan for Zimbabwe amid worries that Mugabe party will grab funds
September 3, 2009
9/03/09 Agazzi, IPS, NGOs: 'Mini-Ministerial Meeting Should Change WTO Tack on Food,' Promote Food Sovereignty
9/03/09 AP, China tries to calm unease over rare earths curbs
9/03/09 Love, Reuters, Global recession ending: OECD
9/03/09 BBC, Joint call for bank bonus rules
9/03/09 BBC, The year that shook the world ... G20: Economic summit snapshot
9/03/09 Bello, FPIF, The Virtues of Deglobalization
9/03/09 Arnoldy, CSM, Farmers take to streets as Doha trade talks start in India
September 1, 2009
9/01/09 Westhead, Toronto Star, Farmer Suicides Blight India
9/01/09 Straits Times, Child trafficking on the rise
August 31, 2009
8/31/09 Michael, IPS, UGANDA: Carbon Trading Scheme Pushing People off Their Land
August 30, 2009
8/30/09 Samuels, Guardian, Africa goes hardcore
8/30/09 Brulliard, WP, In Oil-Rich Niger Delta, the Sun Never Sets
August 27, 2009
8/27/09 Schenkman, Inside Science, Study Says World's Stocks Controlled by Select Few
August 25, 2009
8/25/09 Ambrose, FPIF, Multilateral Money
8/25/09 Askari, Asia Times, IMF adopts irrigation plan during a flood
August 24, 2009
8/24/09 McNally, AlterNet, There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human History
8/24/09 Smith, Guardian, Malawi's child tobacco pickers 'being poisoned by nicotine'
8/24/09 BBC, Toyota recalls 690,000 China cars
8/24/09 Doyle, BBC, Why is the African continent poor?
August 21, 2009
8/21/09 BBC, Pace of HBOS decline 'unexpected'
August 20, 2009
8/20/09 Clifton, IPS, 'Vulture Funds' Prey on Poor Debtor Nations
8/20/09 Xinhua, India, hub of human trafficking in South Asia: report
8/20/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Global Depression and Regional Wars - Part II
8/20/09 BBC, Nigeria oil rights grab 'illegal'
August 19, 2009
8/19/09 AFP, Access to Water Key for World's Poor: Experts
8/19/09 Travis, Guardian, Government to stem flow of migrant workers to protect British jobs
August 18, 2009
8/18/09 Rugaber, AP, Meltdown 101: Foreign Investments in US Debt
August 17, 2009
8/17/09 Mui & Merle, WP, U.S. Stocks Plummet, Following Overseas Markets
August 15, 2009
8/15/09 BBC, Prosperity promise of Bolivia's salt flats
August 14, 2009
8/14/09 Stempel, Reuters, U.S. says ex-Credit Suisse broker in bait-and-switch
8/14/09 Lendman, IntelDaily, Global Depression and Regional Wars - Part I
8/14/09 BBC, Deadly game of Kenya's gem trade
August 13, 2009
8/13/09 AFP, Conflicts to Get More 'Pernicious': ICRC Chief
8/13/09 BBC, US sugar supplies 'running out'
August 12, 2009
8/12/09 Al Jazeera, Russian economy in record decline
8/12/09 Wassener, NYT, Stocks Retreat in Asia
August 11, 2009
8/11/09 Houreld, AP, Oil is no gift for Africa's poor
8/11/09 Thill. AlterNet, Why Corporations, Emerging Powers and Petro-States Are Snapping Up Huge Chunks of Farmland in the Developing World
August 10, 2009
8/10/09 Conoway, NPR, Chart: The Collapse In Global Trade
8/10/09 Vallely, Independent, Wish You Weren't Here: The Devastating Effects of the New Colonialists
8/10/09 Stiglitz, Guardian, Stimulus or bust
August 7, 2009
8/07/09 WorldFocus, Indonesian sulfur miners toil in smouldering volcanoes
August 5, 2009
8/05/09 Malinga et al, Guardian, The cost of living in Katine
August 4, 2009
8/04/09 Bajaj, NYT, India Gets Caught Short as Sugar Prices Soar
August 1, 2009
8/01/09 Lewis, Vanity Fair, The Man Who Crashed the World
July 31, 2009
7/31/09 McCartan, Asia Times, Farmers forgotten in oil-for-food deals
7/31/09 AFP, Pfizer, Nigeria Sign $75 Mln Settlement in Drug Suit: Official
7/31/09 BBC, 'Dire shortage' at UN food agency
July 29, 2009
7/29/09 BBC, IMF boosts lending to poor states
July 28, 2009
7/28/09 Reuters, Migrants to Italy Face 'A Kind of Slavery': OIM
July 27, 2009
7/27/09 Perez-Rocha & Trew, FPIF, Obama: Renegotiate NAFTA as You Promised
7/27/09 Renton, Guardian, Hunger bites back
7/27/09 Woods, BBC, US manufacturing jobs go to China
July 24, 2009
7/24/09 Asia Times, Fiction upon fiction
7/24/09 Rosenthal, NYT, An Amazon Culture Withers as Food Dries Up
7/24/09 Bengali, McClatchy, African workers find harsh conditions in Chinese-run plants
July 22, 2009
7/22/09 Elliott, Guardian, British industry faces a long slog out of the recession, CBI says
7/22/09 BBC, Sudan tense for oil border ruling
July 21, 2009
7/21/09 MacInnis, Reuters, U.N. reports record humanitarian aid shortfall
7/21/09 Lindsay-Poland, FPIF, Revamping Plan Colombia
7/21/09 BBC, Mineral firms 'fuel Congo unrest'
7/21/09 BBC, US terror policy report delayed
July 18, 2009
7/18/09 Al Jazeera, UK toxic waste found in Brazil
July 16, 2009
7/16/09 Busch, FPIF, El Salvador's Gold Fight
July 13, 2009
7/13/09 Atkinson, BBC, Controversy to surround Goldman success
7/13/09 Bradsher, NYT, China Builds High Wall to Guard Energy Industry
7/13/09 Gregory, BBC, Higher food costs still a concern
July 12, 2009
7/12/09 Starcansky, IPS, EUROPE: Bringing Up a 'Lost Generation'
July 10, 2009
7/10/09 Scahill, RebelReports, Notorious Human Rights Abuser Chevron Given "Richard C. Holbrooke Award for Business Excellence"
7/10/09 NPR, Hear: What Keeps Countries Poor?
7/10/09 Elliott & Wintour, Guardian, G8 leaders under pressure to honour promises as Africa takes centre stage
7/10/09 BBC, Further deflation woes for Japan
7/10/09 BBC, SA miners hold bosses underground
July 9, 2009
7/09/09 Mistillis, FPIF, Niger Delta Standoff
July 8, 2009
7/08/09 Bridges, McClatchy, China replacing U.S. as top trade partner in Latin America
7/08/09 Agazzi, IPS, WORLD: Trade Cannot Be Relied Upon to Reduce Poverty
7/08/09 Mittlal, FPIF, G8 Summit: Feed the Hungry or Fuel Hunger?
7/08/09 Rice-Oxley, CSM, Where rich countries are buying farmland
7/08/09 BBC, Sink immigrants' boats - Griffin
7/08/09 Jucca, Reuters, Swiss to Stop UBS Handing over Data in US Tax Row
7/08/09 Wintour & Elliott, Guardian, G8 agrees to climate targets despite differences with developing nations
7/08/09 Stulman, Asia Times, Indebted nations fight off vulture funds
7/08/09 Asia Times, Laotian farmers feel rubber squeeze
July 7, 2009
7/07/09 Engstrom, FT, Copyright laws threaten our online freedom
7/07/09 Klomegah, IPS, TRADE: Crisis Pushing Emerging Markets to Move Beyond the Dollar
7/07/09 BBC, Pope calls for ethical dimension to global capitalism
July 6, 2009
7/06/09 Leahy, IPS, AGRICULTURE: A Stormy Time for Indigenous Wisdom
July 5, 2009
7/05/09 Shaw, AP, Zimbabwe vows to pull troops out of diamond fields
7/05/009 BBC, WTO backs trade in poorer nations
7/05/09 Schifferes, BBC, G8 set to tackle hunger in Africa
July 3, 2009
7/03/09 Salazar, IPS, PERU: Petroleum Sullies the Amazon
July 2, 2009
7/02/09 NPR, IMF Bonds (!!!!)
7/02/09 Klapper, AP, Extinction Looms, Study Says
7/02/09 Agazi, IPS, TRADE: Who's Harming Fish Stocks? Trawlers or Artisanal Fishers?
7/02/09 BBC, Nigaz name sparks racism debate
July 1, 2009
7/01/09 Grim, Huffington Post, NAFTA And The Drug Cartels: "A Deal Made In Narco Heaven" -- Exclusive Excerpt
7/01/09 Lalanne, IPS, ECONOMY: Migrant Miseries Will Trickle Down Worldwide, U.N. Warns
7/01/09 Quinn, CSM, Brave new world of British workers: floating 'labor hostels'
7/01/09 Stracansky, IPS, AUSTRIA: Racism on a Sharp Rise
June 30, 2009
6/30/09 Mathiason, Guardian, Amnesty Attacks Oil Industry for Decades of Damage in Niger Delta
6/30/09 Seager, Guardian, UK economy shrinking at fastest rate in more than 50 years
6/30/09 BBC, Niger court dissolution 'is coup'
6/30/09 Berrigan, FPIF, Weapons: Our #1 Export?
June 29, 2009
6/29/09 Minter & Volman, ITT, The Somalia Crossroads
6/29/09 Moore, CSM, Poverty tours travel a fine line
6/29/09 BBC, New Bangladesh textile protests
June 28, 2009
6/28/09 Nelson, Telegraph, India joins 'neocolonial' rush for Africa's land and labour
June 26, 2009
6/26/09 Godoy, IPS, TECHNOLOGY: Rare Metals Could Trigger Next Trade War
6/26/09 BBC, Emergency powers for Niger leader
6/26/09 Thill, ITT, Will the 'Dollar Wars' Kill What's Left of the American Dream?
6/26/09 Rizvi, IPS, ECONOMY: "Patching Up Bretton Woods Makes No Sense"
6/26/09 Tomkins, ITT, Small Towns vs. Nestle
June 25, 2009
6/25/09 Baseline Scenario, Conventional Wisdom About Credit Default Swaps
June 24, 2009
6/24/09 Stiglitz, Nation, A Global Recovery for a Global Recession
6/24/09 Fisher, PSL, An important victory for the Indigenous of Peru
6/24/09 BBC, World drugs in graphics
June 23, 2009
6/23/09 Duffy, BBC, Amazon bill controversy in Brazil
June 22, 2009
6/22/09 Seager, Guardian, World Bank calls on west to help relieve trillion dollar drain on world's poor
June 21, 2009
6/21/09 Silva, IPS, NICARAGUA: Women Bear the Brunt of the Crisis
6/21/09 BBC, Europe bank chief warns on debt
June 20, 2009
6/20/09 Bacon, TruthOut, Criminals Because We Worked
June 19, 2009
6/19/09 Fernandez, IPS, Humanitarian Aid Criminalized at the Border
6/19/09 Greco, FPIF, Racial Discrimination at the World Bank
6/14/09 LaFranchi, CSM, Obama's new tune on trade
6/19/09 BBC, World hunger 'hits one billion'
6/19/09 BBC, Switzerland agrees to US tax deal
June 18, 2009
6/18/09 AFP, World Powers Push for Financial Sector Reform
6/18/09 Carlsen, FPIF, Trade Agreement Kills Amazon Indians
6/18/09 Spieldoch, FPIF, Global Land Grab
June 17, 2009
6/17/09 GEAB, Global systemic crisis in summer 2009: The cumulative impact of three rogue waves
6/17/09 BBC, Peru moves to ease Amazon crisis
June 16, 2009
6/16/09 Bowley, NYT, Foreign Banks See Opportunity in Turmoil
6/16/09 Rizvi, IPS, Activists Urge Obama to Use Trade Pact as Leverage
6/16/09 Geller, Reuters, Water Risks Ripple Through the Beverage Industry
6/16/09 BBC, Crises boost numbers of displaced
6/16/09 Labott, CNN, Recession boosts global human trafficking, report says
June 15, 2009
6/15/09 McDonald, Irish Times, World Bank Loan Withdrawn From Brazilian Cattle Corporation
6/15/09 Howell, BBC, Trouble in the Middle East's banking centre
6/15/09 BBC, Dollar's reserve status 'is safe'
June 14, 2009
6/14/09 BBC, Sudan tribesmen attack UN barges
6/15/09 Peacock, Reuters, IMF says worst not over
6/14/09 Lightman, McClatchy, Congress will pass war spending, but not without fight over photos
June 13, 2009
6/13/09 Vidal, Guardian, Indigenous Peoples: 'We Are Fighting for Our Lives and Our Dignity'
6/13/09 Estrada, IPS, CHILE: Mixed Reception for Indigenous Protection Code
June 12, 2009
6/12/09 Guardian, US giant BlackRock buys arm of Barclays bank
6/12/09 Khanna, Foreign Policy, The Next Big Thing: Neomedievalism
6/12/09 Weise, ProPublica, Bailout Player BlackRock Becomes Biggest Money Manager
6/12/09 Palast, TruthOut, Oil and Indians Don't Mix
6/12/09 Thomson, BBC, Zimbabwe girls trade sex for food
6/12/09 Kachere, IPS, ENVIRONMENT-ZIMBABWE: Farmers Go to War Against Lantana Camara
6/12/09 Adam & Goldenberg, Guardian, US says it will not demand binding carbon cuts from China
6/12/09 Tejpar, CNN, Recycled homes, one box at a time
June 11, 2009
6/11/09 Salazar, IPS, PERU: Native Protesters Search for Their Dead
6/11/09 Hellerman, CNN, Swine flu 'not stoppable,' World Health Organization says
6/11/09 Llana, CSM, To quell protests, Peru suspends Amazon investment laws
6/11/09 Black, BBC, 'Boom and bust' of deforestation
6/11/09 BBC, World Bank sees even worse slump
June 10, 2009
6/10/09 In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration and Displacement. CARE. May 2009. research copy (36pgs)
6/10/09 Hardikar, IPS, INDIA: Farm Suicides Turn Children Into Farmers
6/10/09 Basu, CNN, Climate change may displace up to 200 million
6/10/09 Montero, CSM, Thousands of refugees flee fighting in Somalia
6/10/09 BBC, Audio slideshow: Zimbabwe's children
June 9, 2009
6/09/09 BBC, Peru protest leader takes refuge
6/09/09 Moss & Crace, Guardian, Is fascism on the march again?
6/09/09 WorldFocus, Police clash with indigenous protesters in Peru
6/09/09 Vidal, Guardian, Shell settlement with Ogoni people stops short of full justice
6/09/09 BBC, Brazil's economy enters recession
June 8, 2009
6/08/09 Auken, WSWS, Peruvian massacre aimed at opening Amazon to transnationals
6/08/09 Nijman, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Thousands March as Food Crisis Deepens
6/08/09 Salazar, IPS, PERU: 'Police Are Throwing Bodies in the River,' Say Native Protesters
6/08/09 BBC, Shell settles Nigeria deaths case
6/08/09 Guardian, Icelandic banks complete takeover of West Ham
6/08/09 CNN, 10 immigrants killed in SUV crash in Arizona
6/08/09 Madslien, BBC, Military spending sets new record
June 7, 2009
6/07/09 Cancio, Cuba Herald, Cuba could supply oil to U.S. in post-embargo era
June 6, 2009
6/06/09 Lajake, BBC, Horror of South African miners' deaths
June 5, 2009
6/05/09 BBC, Deadly clashes in Peru's Amazon
6/05/09 Gill, BBC, Rainforest is worth more standing
6/05/09 Traynor, Guardian, Anti-immigrant right win 15% of Dutch vote in European elections
June 4, 2009
6/04/09 Al Jazeera, The Power of Microfinance
June 3, 2009
6/03/09 Donahue, Bloomberg, Global Corruption Poll Shows Public View of Private Sector Dims
June 2, 2009
6/02/09 Noland, Asia Times, US core no longer the magnet
6/02/09 Helmer, Asia Times, Manganese skirmish takes on global hue
6/02/09 Smith, Telegraph, Swine flu pandemic nearer: WHO
6/02/09 Wilkinson, LAT, Remittances to Mexico down sharply
6/02/09 BBC, More bodies in South Africa mine
6/02/09 BBC, Global house prices drop further
June 1, 2009
6/01/09 EEO, China's Hidden Bankruptcy
6/01/09 Adam, Guardian, Amazon Rainforests Pay the Price as Demand for Beef Soars
6/01/09 Aresnault, IPS, ENERGY: Oil Economy Driving Growth of Controversial Tar Sands
6/01/09 BBC, Geithner assures China investors
6/01/09 BBC, GM enters bankruptcy protection
May 30, 2009
5/30/09 Cardinale, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Local Currencies Really Can Buy Happiness
May 29, 2009
5/29/09 de Pommereau, CSM, Why Germans are starting to strike - like the French
5/29/09 Burns, AlterNet, Why Does Two-Thirds of the World's Population Still Not Have Access to Safe Drinking Water?
5/29/09 Frayssinet, IPS, BRAZIL: 100,000 Hectares of Atlantic Forest Lost in Three Years
5/29/09 BBC, African viewpoint: Nigeria's freedom
5/29/09 Pachuari, Guardian, This silent suffering poor and global warming
May 28, 2009
5/28/09 Massey, AlterNet, Solving the Immigration Problem Means Addressing the Realities of Corporate Globalization
5/28/09 Greco, FPIF, Overhauling Global Finance
5/28/09 Ansari, CNN, Survey: Arctic may hold twice the oil previously found there
5/28/09 BBC, Global crisis 'hits human rights'
5/28/09 Homig, GoldSeek, The Second Crash - On the Way and Unstoppable
May 27, 2009
5/27/09 Bloomberg, World Economy Is Yet to Bottom, People's Bank Says
5/27/09 Voss, BBC, Cuba announces new austerity plan
May 26, 2009
5/26/09 Boyle, TimesOnline, Shell in court over death of Nigerian activist
May 25, 2009
5/25/09 Burridge, Independent, Record rate of decline in economic growth
5/25/09 BBC, Nigeria rebels destroy pipeline
May 24, 2009
5/24/09 BBC, World Bank warns of social unrest
5/24/09 Blas, FT, Africa almost giving land away, says UN
May 23, 2009
5/23/09 Dougherty, NYT, Latvia Races to Cut Deficit to Keep to Its Bailout Deal
5/23/09 Jordan, WSJ, Job Fight: Immigrants vs. Locals
May 22, 2009
5/22/09 Leahy, IPS, Alien Species Eroding Ecosystems and Livelihoods
5/22/09 Tran, Guardian, UN Poised to Close Gender Gap and Create Women's Agency
5/22/09 Stracansky, IPS, EUROPE: Trafficking Rises as Incomes Fall
5/22/09 Stracansky, IPS, EUROPE: Trafficking Rises as Incomes Fall
5/22/09 Damon, IntelDaily, World economy in freefall
5/22/09 BBC, Morales in 'new liberation' plea
May 21, 2009
5/21/09 BBC, Somali 'pirate' pleads not guilty
5/21/09 Mouawad, NYT, Oil Industry Braces for Trial on Rights Abuses
5/21/09 Edwards, FPIF, World Bank Corruption
5/21/09 Desai & Weir, Reuters, UK risks losing AAA rating
5/21/09 BBC, Markets fall as growth hopes fade
5/21/09 BBC, In search of Europe: Latvia
May 20, 2009
5/20/09 Al Jazeera, UAE abandons monetary union plans
5/20/09 Chan, IntelDaily, Unemployed graduates in China to reach 3 million (out of 7.8 mil.) in 2009
5/20/09 Lohan, Alternet, Corporate Agriculture Is to Blame for the Hundreds of Thousands of Farmer Suicides in India
May 19, 2009
5/19/09 Majidi, PSL, Who are the real pirates in Africa?
5/19/09 Naiman, TruthOut, Can Treasury Sneak IMF Money Through the Supplemental?
5/19/09 Koswanage & Ahmad, Reuters, Anti-piracy body backs off on international maritime force
5/19/09 Skelton, Guardian, Our man at Bilderberg: Let's salt the slug in 2010
May 18, 2009
5/18/09 Carroll, Guardian, Peru Army Moves Into Amazon After Tribes Blockade Rivers and Roads
5/18/09 Litvinsky, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Lifting the 'Resource Curse'
5/18/09 Kunstler, IntelDaily, Bad Collateral: A campaign to sustain the unsustainable
5/18/09 EDIE, Utah allowed to process foreign nuclear waste
May 17, 2009
5/17/09 Murphy, AP, UN: Growth of slums boosting natural disaster risk
5/17/09 Enders, Miami Herald, South Americans hit by dengue fever epidemic
5/17/09 Bengali, CSM, Islamist offensive ruins the West's plan for Somalia
May 15, 2009
5/15/09 de Westhuizen, IPS, WORLD-ECONOMY: IMF Using Global Crisis to "Re-Launch" Itself
5/15/09 Annan, Guardian, A green deal for Africa
5/15/09 Marson, CSM, Ukraine's economic straits raise worries about radicalism
May 14, 2009
5/14/09 Cho & Goldfarb, WP, U.S. Pushes Ahead With Derivatives Regulation
5/14/09 Scahill, Rebel Reports, Blackwater Accused of Racism on Its Anti-Piracy Ship
5/14/09 BBC, Oil falls as demand 'set to drop'
May 13, 2009
5/13/09 Nation, Ten Things You Can Do to Fight World Hunger
5/13/09 BBC, Japanese trade indicator halves
5/13/09 Gregory, BBC, Intel faces huge competition fine
May 12, 2009
5/12/09 CNN, Carter pushes energy reform plan to Congress
5/12/09 Reuters, U.S. credit rating at risk: former agency chief
5/12/09 Doyle, Reuters, World seabed disputes face U.N. deadline
5/12/09 Bradsher, NYT, Ships Tread Water, Waiting for Cargo
5/12/09 Escobar, MoJo, Pipelineistan Goes Af-Pak
May 11, 2009
5/11/09 Krolicki & Kim, Reuters, GM says open to moving HQ from Detroit
5/11/09 Al Jazeera, IMF slashes Gulf growth forecast
5/11/09 BBC, Swine flu found on China mainland
May 10, 2009
5/10/09 BBC, Immigrants hurt in Greek violence
5/10/09 Squires, CSM, Italy to stem a human tide of immigrants
May 9, 2009
5/09/09 Ley, BBC, Malta struggles with desperate refugees
May 8, 2009
5/08/09 Seager, Guardian, Bank of England braced for third wave of financial crisis
May 7, 2009
5/07/09 Chen & Lin, Bloomberg, Global Crisis 'Vastly Worse' Than 1930s, Taleb Says
5/07/09 Bengali, CSM, Somali insurgency driving thousands of refugees to Kenya
5/07/09 Hagengruber, CSM, A victory for cheese eaters? US-EU trade spat defused.
May 6, 2009
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/4360/salt_of_the_earth/">Salt of the Earth
5/06/09 BBC, EU and US reach deal in beef row
May 5, 2009
5/05/09 Feffer, FPIF, Capitalist Pigs
May 4, 2009
5/04/09 Veal, IPS, ICELAND: Living With Ghost Towns
5/04/09 BBC, European economy 'will shrink 4%'
May 3, 2009
5/02/09 BBC, Mining a mint in eastern DR Congo
5/03/09 BBC, Asia 'must cut export dependency'
May 2, 2009
5/02/09 Al Jazeera, Tsvangirai: Zimbabwe is broke
5/02/09 Boyles & Bremmer, Times Online, Riot police working overtime as unions and anarchists link arms for May Day
May 1, 2009
5/01/09 Hickman, Independent, How Britons Fuel Destruction of the Rainforest
5/01/09 Sandronsky, TruthOut, The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy
5/01/09 Saltmarsh, NYT, Anger and Fear Fuel May Day Europe Protests
5/01/09 BBC, Bankers made 'astonishing mess'
5/01/09 BBC, Swiss bank refuses US tax request
April 30, 2009
4/30/09 AFP, China has 'canceled US credit card': lawmaker
April 29, 2009
4/29/09 Giordano, Narco News, How "The NAFTA Flu" Exploded
April 28, 2009
4/28/09 Ayres, Times, Mexico outbreak traced to 'manure lagoons' at pig farm
4/28/09 Cole, LAT, Congress members arrested in Darfur protest
April 27, 2009
4/27/09 Leahy, IPS, CLIMATE CHANGE: Burden Lies with Rich Polluters, Native People Say
4/27/09 Ghosh, BBC, Science cash 'to beat food riots'
April 26, 2009
4/26/09 Chandler et al, WP, A Day of Vandalism, Violence
4/26/09 Faiola, WP, Finance Chiefs Back a Bolder IMF, Bigger Role for Emerging Nations
4/26/09 Hutton, Guardian, Britain's no longer a world power, so let's be a better, fairer nation
4/26/09 Elliott & Stewart, Guardian, Britain urges World Bank to spend $4bn now to protect poorest countries
April 25, 2009
4/25/09 D'Emilio, AP, Italy's Mafia thrives in global financial meltdown
4/25/09 Philpott, Grist, Swine Flu Outbreak Could Be Linked to Smithfield Factory Farms
April 23, 2009
4/23/09 Patterson & Ragir, Bloomberg, Emerging-Market Short Sales Climb Most Since 2007
4/23/09 Alves, Bloomberg, Mexico Corporate Debt Default to Surge, JPMorgan Says
April 22, 2009
4/22/09 Pilkington & Booth, Guardian, Somali boy pirate leapt aboard and shot at captain, US prosecutors say
4/22/09 Feffer, FPIF, Monsters vs. Aliens
4/22/09 Schifferes, BBC, 'Deeper' recession ahead says IMF
April 21, 2009
4/21/09 Williams & Maher, Foreigners Filling Jobs That Iraqis Often Shun
April 20, 2009
4/20/09 WorldFocus, Ecological refugees flee China's expanding desert
4/20/09 Godoy, IPS, The Second Scramble for Africa Starts
April 19, 2009
4/18/09 Murray, PSL, Who are the real 'pirates' in Africa?
4/19/09 Blas, FT, US urges food output boost to avert unrest
April 18, 2009
4/18/09 Chien & Chen, Reuters, China says key currency countries need watching
4/18/09 IRIN, GHANA: Plummeting profits drive tomato farmers to suicide
4/18/09 Rosales, IPS, PERU: Water Isn't for Everyone
4/18/09 Toynbee, Guardian, Wall Street wounded Ghana. IMF tonic could hurt it more
4/18/09 Mercer, BBC, Tasmania's wombat poo paper a hit
4/18/09 Allen, BBC, Somali chaos spills from land to sea
4/18/09 Kinver, BBC, Key role of forests 'may be lost
April 17, 2009
4/17/09 Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph, IMF warns over parallels to Great Depression
4/17/09 Collinson & Levine, Guardian, Building societies face awful truth about boom-time spending spree
4/17/09 Feffer, FPIF, Empire Foreclosed?
4/17/09 Greco, FPIF, Global Food Security Act
4/17/09 BBC, G20 death was not heart attack
4/17/09 CNN, Maya nut changes lives while aiding the rain forest
4/17/09 BBC, Somali piracy: Global overview
April 16, 2009
4/16/09 Al Jazeera, Lula attacks rich nations on crisis
4/16/09 Romero & Barrionuevo, NYT, Deals Help China Expand Sway in Latin America
4/16/09 NPR, IMF Sees Long Recession
4/16/09 Bengali, McClatchy, What's It Like to Be a Pirate? In Dirt-Poor Somalia, Pretty Good
April 15, 2009
4/15/09 Independent, 1,500 farmers commit mass suicide in India
4/15/09 SI, Xinhua, Strikes spread worldwide amid global economic downturn
4/15/09 Kollewe, Guardian, US economy goes back to 1955 as deflation returns
4/15/09 Collins, IntelDaily, Enabling Acts for an Era of Greed: The Money Party at Work
4/15/09 BBC, Pirates attack second US vessel
4/15/09 BBC, Blockades halt channel crossings
April 14, 2009
4/14/09 Adam, Guardian, World Will Not Meet 2C Warming Target, Climate Change Experts Agree
4/14/09 Reuters, Overfishing to Wipe out Bluefin Tuna in 3 Years: WWF
4/14/09 Feffer, FPIF, Pirate Bankers, Shadow Economies
4/14/09 BBC, Poland to seek $20bn IMF credit
April 13, 2009
4/13/09 BBC, US captain rescued from pirates
4/13/09 WSJ, Green Ink: Forget Peak Oil; Peak Gasoline is Already Here
4/13/09 Rich, NYT, We've Got to Leave This Bankrupt Culture Behind
4/13/09 Hari, Independent, We're Being Lied to About Pirates
4/13/09 Martin, IntelDaily, Pentagon holds war game simulating world financial crisis
4/13/09 Kozy, IntelDaily, The Economic Crisis: No, this will not be a Normal Cyclical Recovery
4/13/09 VOA News, Zimbabwe Suspends Use of Own Currency
4/13/09 McKenzie, IPS, FRANCE: Under the Eiffel Tower, a Desperate Game Plays Out
April 12, 2009
4/12/09 Muhumed & Nor, AP, Somali pirates vow retaliation after captain freed
4/12/09 Bagchi, BBC, Punjab suicides cast shadow on polls
4/12/09 Skoloff, & Burdeau, AP, Chinese drywall poses potential risks
4/12/09 BBC, New Somali bid to free US captain
April 11, 2009
4/11/09 Pitman, AP, Somali pirates a far cry from buccaneers of old
4/11/09 Head, BBC, Asean fiasco deepens Thai stalemate
April 10, 2009
4/10/09 IntelDaily, Local US currency strengthens community
4/10/09 Hobsbawm, Guardian, Socialism has failed. Now capitalism is bankrupt. So what comes next?
4/10/09 Dike, FPIF, Global Discussion on Racism
4/10/09 Bright, CSM, Critics say US should attack Somali pirates' land bases
4/10/09 BBC, Georgians plan mass disobedience
4/10/09 BBC, Nigeria oil unrest 'kills 1,000'
April 9, 2009
4/09/09 Westhead, Toronto Star, Poor Pay Price of Progress in India
4/09/09 BBC, Swiss hold '$150m Nigeria bribes'
4/09/09 Fessy & Doyle, BBC, From rebel-held Congo to beer can
April 8, 2009
4/08/09 Woods & Grecco, FPIF, G20 and Global Poverty
April 7, 2009
4/07/09 Buchanan, BBC, Irish downturn hits man and beast
4/07/09 BBC, Eurozone's GDP revised downwards
April 6, 2009
4/06/09 Klare, Nation, Global Crime Wave?
4/06/09 Eley, IntelDaily, Behind the surge on Wall Street
4/06/09 Harris, ITT, No Sugar-Coating Immigration
4/06/09 Gupta, AlterNet, Shocking Scenarios: Rapid Economic Contraction May Lead to New Wars and Radicalized Politics
April 5, 2009
4/05/09 Mathiason, Guardian, Shell in court over alleged role in Nigeria executions
April 4, 2009
4/04/09 BBC, Roman police find sewer children
April 3, 2009
4/03/09 Suri, IPS, G20: Where Is the Money, and Who Is the Moneylender
4/03/09 Murray, PSL, Economic crisis fuels anti-immigrant demonization in Europe
4/03/09 Miller, PSL, Thousands take to streets of Sydney to support Tamil struggle
4/03/09 BBC, OECD names and shames tax havens
April 2, 2009
4/02/09 BBC, Voices: Inside Japan's recession
4/02/09 Litvinsky, IPS, Electronics Firms Urged to Boycott 'Blood Minerals'
4/02/09 Naughton, TimesOnline, G20 leaders begin talks to bury 'free' markets
4/02/09 TimesOnline, G20 could give $1 trillion stimulus to boost world economy
April 1, 2009
4/01/09 BBC, IMF eases Ivory Coast debt burden
4/01/09 Kwak, Baseline Scenario, The New Masters of the Universe
4/01/09 Reuters, IMF sees world economy shrinking up to 1 percent in 2009
4/01/09 Bridges, CSM, Why Brazil is weathering the global financial crisis this time
March 31, 2009
3/31/09 Dsane, FirstPost, Panoramic Emotions - Globalization
3/31/09 Desai & Wroughton, Reuters, France threatens G20 walkout
3/31/09 Hindery & Riegle, MoJo, An End to False Globalization
3/31/09 Seager & Kollewe, Guardian, G20 leaders get OECD warning that global trade is in freefall
3/31/09 Marquand, CSM, Germany's hard line on the stimulus: Why Merkel says 'Nein'
3/31/09 Kollewe, Guardian, UK has run out of money to pump into economy, OECD warns
3/31/09 BBC, World Bank warns of deep slowdown
March 30, 2009
3/30/09 CNN, Fishing boats sink off Libyan coast
3/30/09 Vartabedian & Hamburger , LAT, AIG crisis could be the tip of an insurance iceberg>A?
3/26/09 Johnson, Reuters, Financier sees oil shock from credit crunch
3/30/09 Bawden, IntelDaily, The Tipping Point of the Dollar
3/30/09 Bradlow, FPIF, Fixing the IMF
3/30/09 Ford, CSM, Ahead of G-20, China questions US's financial dominance
3/30/09 BBC, Migrants drown off Libyan coast
March 29, 2009
3/29/09 Kole, AP, Bosnia's jobless rate at 43 percent and rising
3/29/09 Mathiason, Guardian, Tax havens batten down as the hurricane looms
3/29/09 McVeigh & Lewis, Guardian, The 'revolution' starts here as 35,000 pack the G20 march
March 28, 2009
3/28/09 Al Jazeera, France seals African uranium deals
3/28/09 Lewis et al, Guardian, G20 protests: Cry havoc - and let slip a rainbow alliance of summit protesters
3/28/09 Grieder, Nation, Trust Your Guts
3/28/09 Bourne, TimesOnline, G20 protests begin with wet march through London
March 27, 2009
3/27/09 Blas, Financial Times, Number of Chronically Hungry Tops 1 Billion
3/27/09 Arnoldy, CSM, Role reversal: Some Americans seeking jobs head to India
3/27/09 Lantier, IntelDaily, Global investors ponder implications of US dollar collapse
3/27/09 EDIE, Elastoplast solution to African water crisis not working
3/27/09 BBC, Slowdown blights DR Congo economy
3/27/09 Fox, Guardian, How not to look like a banker
3/27/09 Wheatley, FT, Brazil's leader blames white people for crisis
3/27/09 Boxun, Chinese Migrant Workers Totaled 225.42 Million at the End of 2008
3/27/09 Seager, Guardian, UK recession: 'It's even worse than we thought,' says ONS
3/27/09 Treanor, Guardian, Lloyds and Halifax City branches set to shut during G20 protests
March 26, 2009
3/26/09 Baseline Scenario, What the IMF Would Tell the United States, If It Could
3/26/09 NPR, U.K. Can't Sell Its Debt
3/26/09 Hunt, BBC, Will the US dollar remain king?
3/26/09 Sherman, Times Online, 'Negligent' councils broke rules to invest in Icelandic banks
3/26/09 Kollewe, Guardian, Dollar regains ground after Timothy Geithner qualifies global currency remarks
3/26/09 Greste, BBC, The dam that divides Ethiopians
3/26/09 Mock & McLaughlin, Independent, Fears of unrest in eastern Europe grow as Czech government collapses
March 25, 2009
3/25/09 Coutts, ProPublica, How Hard the Fed Looked for AIG's Potential Losses
3/25/09 Dreyfus, Nation, The Real Economic Crisis
3/25/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Populist Caucus Organizes Around Trade and Globalization
3/25/09 McLaughlin, CNN, Feds' plan to poison banks of Rio Grande stalled
3/25/09 Knell, BBC, Nubia: Lost civilisation of Egypt
3/25/09 BBC, IMF announces new lending reforms
3/25/09 BBC, Romania gets IMF emergency loan
March 24, 2009
3/24/09 Reuters, Bernanke: AIG shows urgent need for new regulations
3/24/09 Chopra, CSM, Debt weighs on Indian middle class
March 23, 2009
3/23/09 RIA Novosti, China ready to discuss new reserve currency at G20 summit
3/23/09 Baltic Times, Human trafficking from Lithuania increases
March 22, 2009
3/22/09 Stewart & Elliott, Observer, World Bank: G20 Warned Unrest Will Sweep Globe
3/22/09 Elliott, Guardian, Time for change: five proposals - global economy.
March 21, 2009
3/21/09 AFP, Activists Slam World Water Forum as a Corporate-Driven Fraud
3/21/09 Torros, IPS, Women's Special Water Needs Find Voice
3/21/09 CNN, Zoellick slams 'sugar high' stimulus plans
March 20, 2009
3/20/09 Gordon & Hall, AIG still a major threat to global economy, top official says
3/20/09 NPR, How Many Toxic Assets Are There?
3/20/09 Lopatka & Prenesti, Reuters, EU backs stronger IMF, eastern aid lifeline
3/20/09 BBC, U.S. SEC probes subprime, builders, hedge funds
3/20/09 White, CSM, Latvia uses police to quash talk of economic collapse
March 19, 2009
3/19/09 Saltmarsh & Jolly, NYT, Workers Protest Across France
3/19/09 McKenzie, FRANCE: Young Face a Jobless Future
3/19/09 Luban, IPS, POLITICS-US: New Calls for a More Tolerant Intl Order
3/19/09 Sender, FT, Banks warned on commercial property 'black hole'
3/19/09 BBC, Iceland interest rates cut to 17%
March 18, 2009
3/18/09 Koeppel, ConsortiumNews, Indentured Servants, Circa 2009
3/18/09 NPR, He Blames Greenspan
3/18/09 Gillies, AP, Bush says it's 'essential' to help Obama
3/18/09 Faiola, WP, Trade Barriers Could Threaten Global Economy
3/18/09 Arce, IntelDaily, Latin America hit hard by world crisis
3/18/09 IntelDaily, US detains record number of immigrants: report
3/18/09 Wearden, Guardian, UK faces worse recession than US and Europe, IMF warns
3/18/09 BBC, World Bank lowers China forecast
3/18/09 BBC, (UK) Unemployment passes two million
3/18/09 Case, IPS, RIGHTS-US: Ill Migrants Left to Languish Behind Bars
3/18/09 Klare, FPIF, The Second Shockwave
3/18/09 BBC, Fed pumps $1.2tn into US economy
3/18/09 Stoupe, Asia Times, China inoculates itself against dollar collapse (Part 3)... Part 1, Part 2
March 17, 2009
3/17/09 Katine, Guardian, Remittances: Time for payback
3/17/09 Walker, BBC, The day oil was discovered in Nigeria
3/17/09 BBC, US law sparks Mexican trade row
3/17/09 BBC, China seeks export carbon relief
March 16, 2009
3/16/09 Baseline Scenario, Much Worse Than You Think: International Economic Diplomacy
3/16/09 Coutts, ProPublica, Another $8 Billion Or So on the Line for AIG
3/16/09 Cevallos, IPS, MEXICO: Cradle of Maize Rocked by Transgenics
3/16/09 Clark, McClatchy, Latin Americans in U.S. sending less money home, bank says
3/16/09 Shachtman, WIred, U.S. Could Use Crisis to Wage 'Financial Warfare'
3/16/09 Annan, Guardian, A message from Africa
3/16/09 CNN, AIG names recipients of its bailout money
3/16/09 BBC, Crisis 'will cost Africa $49bn'
3/16/09 Brown, CNN, AIG 'recklessness and greed'
March 15, 2009
3/15/09 Calamachi, AP, Guinea narcostate revealed in TV confessions
3/15/09 Carroll, Guardian, Now Coca-Cola feels force of Chavez' colourful revolution
3/15/09 BBC, Bolivia leader redistributes land
March 14, 2009
3/14/09 Welz, MoJo, Ethanol's African Landgrab
3/14/09 Lister, TimesOnline, Downturn Could Kill 400,000 Children, Warns Margaret Chan
3/14/09 Boxun, 4000 billion is only 1/3 of its plan, yet still a secret
March 13, 2009
3/13/09 Desai, Reuters, G20 rift deepens ahead of crisis response talks
3/13/09 Wines & Bradsher, NYT, China's Leader Says He Is 'Worried' Over U.S. Treasuries
3/13/09 Doak, FPIF, Making Peace or Fueling War in Africa
3/13/09 Guru, Asia Times, Dodging the black hole
3/13/09 Harvey, BBC, Papua's struggle for independence
March 12, 2009
3/12/09 World Focus, Authorities: Madoff used London office to launder money
3/12/09 Cho & Faiola, WP, Treasury Seeks Billions More to Aid Ailing Nations
3/12/09 Seliger, ITT, From Russia With Mercy
March 11, 2009
3/11/09 Wintour et al, Guardian,G20 deal at risk as US-Europe rift grows
3/11/09 O'Hara, Guardian, Inequality is bad for your health
3/11/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Your Taxpayer Dollars at Work: TARP Subsidizing Banks' Overseas Deals
3/11/09 Wroughton, Reuters, IMF chief says bank cleanup too slow
3/11/09 BBC, Obama calls for G20 joint action
3/11/09 Cha, WP, Plummeting Chinese Exports Shock Economists
3/11/09 Perkins, Guardian, Time for explosive action
3/11/09 Litvinsky, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: World's Poor Offer Lessons in Bank Study
3/11/09 Brimacombe, BBC, Zambia's agri-business powerhouse
March 10, 2009
3/10/09 Becker, PSL, Capitalism: a system of mass destruction
3/10/09 Faiola, WP, U.S. to Toughen Its Stance On Trade
3/10/09 Samath, IPS, ECONOMY-SRI LANKA: Return of the IMF
3/10/09 Kachingwe, IPS, ZAMBIA: Food Vouchers Not Enough to Fight Hunger
3/10/09 McDonnell, Guardian, Time for a new People's Charter
3/10/09 BBC, Worst crisis since 1930s says Fed
March 9, 2009
3/09/09 Fitts, Scoop, Brother, Can You Spare a Trillion?
3/09/09 Grabell, ProPublica, Morning Cup of Stimulus: Illegal Immigrants?
3/09/09 Baseline, President Obama's Implied Future For Derivatives
3/09/09 Turse, MoJo, Younger and Hungrier in America
3/04/09 Ali, Nation, Capitalism's Deadly Logic
3/09/09 Strupcaewski, Reuters, EU finmins to back doubling of IMF funds at G20
3/09/09 Kunsler, IntelDaily, Forget About "Recovery"
3/09/09 Reuters, AIG warned of global turmoil before rescue: report
3/09/09 Puzzanghera, LAT, Why the world's biggest insurance company is still getting taxpayer funds
3/09/09 Miller, Bloomberg, Depression Dynamic Ensues as Markets Revisit 1930s
3/09/09 BBC, Drug firms in $41bn giant merger
March 8, 2009
3/08/09 Andrews, NYT, World Bank Says Global Economy Will Shrink in '09
3/08/09 Goodman, NYT, Appeal of the Dollar Adds to the Pain of Ailing Nations
3/08/09 Landay, McClatchy, China's thirst for copper could hold key to Afghanistan's future
March 7, 2009
3/07/09 Friedman, NYT, The Inflection Is Near?
3/07/09 Joseph, PSL, Federal government to deport thousands of Haitian workers
3/07/08 Kramer, NYT, The Last Days of the Oligarchs?
3/07/09 BBC, Treasury takes 65% Lloyds stake
3/07/09 BBC, Old sensitivities resurface in Sudan
3/07/09 BBC, Police break up Malaysia protest
March 6, 2009
3/06/09 Palletta, WSJ, Bill Seeks to Let FDIC Borrow up to $500 Billion
3/06/09 Delaney, CSM, Why 10,000 Ugandans are eagerly serving in Iraq
3/06/09 Messina, CMS, Icelanders knit crafty response to global crisis
3/06/09 BBC, Asian shares slide as fears grow
March 5, 2009
3/04/09 Miller & Reeve, Times Online, 10 Things We Didn't Know About Food
3/05/09 BBC, SA shuts Zimbabwe refugees' camp
3/05/09 WorldFocus, Financial crisis upsets global economic order
March 4, 2009
3/04/09 BBC, Poor being hit by crisis says IMF
3/04/09 Drawbaugh & Daly, Reuters, UBS refuses to give U.S. names, replaces chairman
3/04/09 BBC, Live text: Brown faces Congress
3/04/09 Eckel, Post & Courrier, Russian scholar says US will collapse _ next year
3/04/09 Ehrenreich & Fletcher, Nation, Reimagining Socialism
3/04/09 Simanowitz, ITT, Blue People, Yellowcake
3/04/09 CNN, Chavez orders nationalization of Cargill
3/04/09 Walberg, IntelDaily, Europe: Prison of nations
3/04/09 BBC, Warrant issued for Sudan's leader
March 3, 2009
3/03/09 Wintour & Sparrow, Guardian, Global Recession Emerged From US, Brown to Tell Congress
3/03/09 von Hoffman, Nation, The Second Great Depression
3/03/09 Deen, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Financial Crisis Threatens Women's Meagre Gains
3/03/09 Leonhardt, NYT, Job Losses Show Breadth of a Recession
3/03/09 Drawbaugh, Reuters, Foreign tax havens targeted in U.S. bills
3/03/09 Love, Reuters, Downturn to be considerably deeper than IMF forecast: OECD
3/03/09 Falconer & Schulman , MoJo, Blackwater's New Frontier: Their Own Private Africa
3/03/09 BBC, Spanish jobless total rises again
March 2, 2009
3/02/09 Charter, Times Online, New 'Iron Curtain' will split EU's rich and poor
3/02/09 Kiel, ProPublica, AIG: The Tally Mounts (And Gets Murkier)
3/02/09 Kunsler, IntelDaily, What Next? The collapse of complex systems...
3/02/09 Lopatka & Dokoupil, Reuters, EU says crisis worst in memory, helping new EU states
Originally published 2/14/09 Dmitry Orlov, Cluborlov, Social Collapse Best Practices
3/02/09 van den Bosch, IPS, WATER-NAMIBIA: Policy to Create a Water Scarcity?
March 1, 2009
3/01/09 Wallace, MoJo, Consumer Retorts: Fair Trade Coffee
3/01/09 Trujillo, BBC, The Amazon's most ardent protector
3/01/09 Brand, AP, Merkel rejects bailout plan for eastern EU nations
3/01/09 Al Jazeera, African migrants drown off Yemen
3/01/09 Bowers, Guardian, Hedge fund thinks bank slide is over
3/01/09 BBC, Chavez sends army to rice plants
3/01/09 BBC, America's trillion dollar question
February 28, 2009
2/28/09 Fisher, PSL, Thousands of mine jobs in South Africa slashed
2/28/09 Fisher, PSL, Irish workers take to the streets to protect jobs and wages
2/28/09 Gyuse, IPS, MINING-WEST AFRICA: Ending the Race to the Bottom
2/28/09 BBC, Fears of anarchy in Madagascar
2/28/09 Denvir, ITT, Resource Wars in Ecuador
2/28/09 Glennie, Guardian, It starts with a council estate
2/28/09 BBC, Malaysian plan to oust foreign workers
2/28/09 Alieva, Asia Times, Tajik cotton farms picked clean
February 27, 2009
2/27/09 BBC, Argentina-US row over CIA comment
2/27/09 Dymond, BBC, Hungarians feel force of economic storm
February 26, 2009
2/26/08 BBC, Global marketplaces feel the downturn
2/26/09 Vembu, DNA, 'Next oil shock will be far worse than $147 a barrel'
February 25, 2009
2/25/09 Montlake, CSM, Sri Lankan refugees face open-ended detention in camps
2/25/09 Cutter, PSL, European toxic waste dumped in Africa
2/25/09 Nishikawa, Reuters, WTO urges G20 to uphold pledge to fight protectionism
2/25/09 Russell, Winnipeg Free Press, Oil's not well in Canada
2/25/09 Klare, IntelDaily, A Planet at the Brink: Will Economic Brushfires Prove Too Virulent to Contain?
2/25/09 Gardiner, FPIF, It's a Global Economic Crisis
2/25/09 BBC, Slumdog children to be rehoused
February 24, 2009
2/24/09 BBC, Latvian debt is given junk status
2/24/09 BBC, US recession 'may last into 2010'
2/24/09 CNN, Indian woman accused of selling baby for $130
2/24/09 Ferrette, BBC, Zimbabwe elite seeks to evade sanctions
February 23, 2009
2/23/09 Naiman, Truthout, Guadeloupe Strikes: A Warning to Obama?
2/23/09 Reuters, Financial job losses accelerating: U.N. agency
2/23/09 Vedantam, WP, Climate Fears Are Driving 'Ecomigration' Across Globe
2/23/09 Applebaum, WP, Government Moves to Shore Up Banking System
2/23/09 CNN, China: 70 ill from tainted pig organs
2/23/09 Ford, CSM, China's buying spree in global fire sale
February 22, 2009
2/22/09 Jacobs, NYT, China Fears Tremors as Jobs Vanish From Coast
2/22/09 Falloon, Reuters, Europe says all markets must be regulated
2/22/09 Travis, Guardian, Foreign workers could be barred from entering UK
2/22/09 Hrizi, PSL, Stimulus package aimed at salvaging capitalism
2/22/09 Reuters, EU leaders back oversight, tax haven sanctions
February 21, 2009
2/21/09 de Costa & Lagorio, Reuters, Soros Sees No Bottom for World Financial "Collapse"
2/21/09 Shin, WP, Support Urged for Eastern Europe
2/21/09 BBC, Huge protest over Irish economy
2/21/09 Etzler & FlorCruz, CNN, Road to riches ends for 20 million Chinese poor
2/21/09 Ford, CSM, China, taking advantage of global recession, goes on a buying spree
2/21/09 Frosch, NYT, In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend the Flock
2/21/09 Burnett, IPS, Fighting for the Right to Fish
February 20, 2009
2/20/09 Redman, FPIF, Postcard From...Belém
2/20/09 Askari & Krichene, Asia Times, G-7 points to more instability
2/20/09 Barboza, NYT, With Cash to Spend, China Starts Investing Globally
2/20/09 Kaunda, IPS, ZAMBIA: Corruption in Water Sector Makes Clean Water A Pipedream
2/20/09 Steff, Texas Observer, Access Denied
2/20/09 BBC, Zimbabwe recovery costs 'massive'
2/20/09 BBC, Latvian PM quits as crisis bites
February 19, 2009
2/19/09 Weaver & Brannigan, Miami Herald, Swiss bank USB to pay U.S. in tax havens scheme
February 18, 2009
2/18/09 Milmo, Independent, Dumped in Africa: Britain's Toxic Waste
2/18/09 Al Jazeera, GM and Chrysler to shed 50,000 jobs
2/18/09 AL Jazeera, Violent protests hit French island
2/18/09 Tse, WP, Swift, Steep Downturn Crosses Globe
2/18/09 Stolberg, NYT, Nafta Looming Over Obama's Canada Trip
2/18/09 BBC, Germany drafts bank takeover law
2/18/09 BBC, Zimbabwe pays wages in US dollar
February 17, 2009
2/17/09 The Economist, Doubling Up. Why the IMF is scrambling to raise extra capital.
2/17/09 Wassener, NYT, Stocks Are Flat in U.S. and Lower in Europe
2/17/09 AP, Asian stock markets slump amid financial fears
2/17/09 Al Jazeera, Jobless Chinese stranded in Romania
February 16, 2009
2/16/09 BBC, Rome to dismantle illegal camps
2/16/09 Hedges, Truthdig, Bad News From America's Top Spy
February 14, 2009
2/14/09 Schwartz, NYT, Job Losses Pose a Threat to Stability Worldwide
2/14/09 Bilefsky, NYT, In Romania, Children Left Behind Suffer the Strains of Migration
2/14/09 Xanthaki, IPS, Human Slavery Thriving in the Shadows
2/14/09 Heller, Reuters, G7 commits to firm crisis response and free trade
February 13, 2009
2/13/09 Madrigal, Wired, Global Shipping Industry Makes World Flat -- Biologically
2/13/09 Ruder, IntelDaily, Revolt is in the air: Countries across Europe in turmoil
February 12, 2009
2/12/09 Chen, BBC, China seeks broader Africa role
2/12/09 Zhang, AP, The Chinese are coming, to buy bargain US homes
2/12/09 Reuters, Global economy crisis top security threat: U.S.
2/12/09 Perkins, Guardian, Say water pumps, think livelihoods
February 11, 2009
2/11/09 WorldFocus, Indigenous languages revive and thrive in Mexico
2/11/09 IntelDaily, Nearly 1 billion starving in world
February 10, 2009
2/10/09 Dossani, FPIF, Chomsky: Understanding the Crisis -- Markets, the State and Hypocrisy
February 9, 2009
2/09/09 CNN, Commentary: Free trade has sold out the American worker
2/09/09 BBC, Countries face new UK visa rules
2/09/09 BBC, Latvia's economy shrinks rapidly
2/09/09 GW's Blog, WTO Chief Joins Others in Warning of Crash-Induced Unrest
2/09/09 Whitley & Adam, Bloomberg, IMF Says Advanced Economies Already in Depression
2/09/09 IntelDaily, Venezuela braces for $20 oil
2/09/07 Lah, CNN, Nissan to cut 20,000 jobs
2/09/09 BBC, Japan corporate bankruptcies soar
February 8, 2009
2/08/09 Solnit, TomDispatch, The Icelandic Volcano Erupts
2/08/09 Moss, NYT, Peanut Case Shows Holes in Safety Net
2/08/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, 1,000 Words From Speaker Pelosi About Why This Recession Is Different
February 7, 2009
2/07/09 Cronin, IPS, TRADE: South Africa in Growing Conflict With EU
2/07/09 BBC, Latin America poverty 'may soar'
2/07/09 CNN, 23 killed at Madagascar protest
February 6, 2009
2/06/09 Miller, PSL, Indian man set ablaze in anti-immigrant assault in Italy
2/06/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, "More to Promote Outsourcing Than Nearly Anyone Else In America"
2/06/09 Macan-Markar, IPS, CAMBODIA: Chevron Silent on Bribery Allegations
2/06/09 Sanders, ITT, The Failed Prophet
2/06/09 CNN, KBR charged with bribing Nigerian officials for contracts
2/06/09 BBC, Alternative views of the economic crisis
2/06/09 Weir, CSM, Global downturn hammers Ukraine's economy
February 5, 2009
2/05/09 Costello & Seib, TimesOnline, Madoff's clients at heart of UK establishment
2/05/09 Brittain-Catlin, Guardian, How offshore capitalism ate our economies - and itself
2/05/09 Al Jazeera, Elite 'selling Cambodia's future'
2/05/09 BBC, Ten killed in Brazilian slum raid
2/05/09 BBC, Somali pirates 'free arms ship'
February 4, 2009
2/04/09 BBC, Deal hope in foreign workers row
2/04/09 Klein, Nation, All of Them Must Go
2/04/09 Naughton, TimesOnline, Gordon Brown suggests world heading for a 'depression'
2/04/09 AP, Panasonic to cut 15,000 jobs, shut plants
2/04/09 Leyva, Progressive, Unaccompanied immigrant children deserve protection
2/04/09 WorldFocus, Iceland in upheaval as banks and government implode
2/04/09 Duffy, BBC, Brazil's battle for shanty town residents
2/04/09 BBC, Gaddafi condemns Africa democracy
February 3, 2009
2/03/09 Feffer, FPIF, Our Pirates and Theirs
2/03/09 Sturcke, Guardian, Anti-foreign labour strikes bed in as talks continue
February 2, 2009
2/02/09 Hedges, TruthDig, It's Not Going to Be OK
2/02/09 Wirth, IntelDaily, Peak Oil and the Global Economy
2/02/09 Adams, CSM, Niger militants scrap cease-fire, vow offensive
2/02/09 BBC, France unveils stimulus package
2/02/09 BBC, Chinese spending creates deficit
2/02/09 BBC, Zimbabwe dollar sheds 12 zeros
2/02/09 Kirk, IPS, WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Resolution and a Plan of Action
2/02/09 Hogg, BBC, Chinese migrant job losses mount
February 1, 2009
2/01/09 Faiola, WP, Out of Gaps In Treaties, First Salvos Of Trade War
2/01/09 Doward, Guardian, Britain 'must revive farms' to avoid grave food crisis
2/01/09 Doward et al, Guardian, Unions: Labour was warned about jobs for foreigners
2/01/09 Henley, BBC, French government fears rise of left
2/01/09 Fisher, PSL, More than two million protest anti-worker policies in France
2/01/09 Grudgings, Reuters, Leftist Forum Ends in Amazon; Capitalism Seen Dying
2/01/09 Rosenberg, OpenLeft, Why are the Feds Bailing Out the Highway Privatization Industry?
2/01/09 Sirota, OpenLeft, Bailout Cash Subsidizing Outsourcing
2/01/09 BBC, EU rules 'not protecting workers'
2/01/09 Bash & Beamish, AP, AP Investigation: Banks sought foreign workers
2/01/09 Gustavo Capdevila interviews academic ALAIN BIHR, IPS, Q&A: Crisis Could Lead to 'Revolutionary Change'
2/01/09 BBC, Glaxo 'to cut thousands of jobs'
January 31, 2009
1/31/09 BBC, Crisis may 'spark social unrest'
1/31/09 BBC, Nigerians can sue US drugs firm
1/31/09 BBC, Thousands protest in Russian east
1/31/09 BBC, PM says 'no clear map' for crisis
January 30, 2009
1/30/09 Freeland, Financial Times, The Credit Crunch According to Soros
1/30/09 Barr, AP,
1/30/09 Bridges, McClatchy, Lithium could be Bolivia's future, if politics don't get in way
1/30/09 BBC, Financial rules 'worsened crisis'
January 29, 2009
1/29/09 BBC, 'Unprecedented' fall in air cargo
1/29/09 Stringer, AP, Arctic's thaw brings security risks for NATO
1/29/09 Seward, AP, Nationwide French strike shuts trains, subways
1/28/09 Nation, Jobless in America
1/29/09 Dougherty & Bennhold, IHT, Russia and China blame capitalists for crisis
1/29/09 McGreal, Guardian, Zimbabwe's Starving Millions Face Halving of Rations as UN Cash Dries Up
1/29/09 Blegon, FPIF, Somali Piracy and the International Response
January 28, 2009
1/28/09 Huang, CSM, Migrant workers struggle as China's factories slow
1/28/09 Llana, CSM, Mexican workers send less cash home from the US
1/28/09 Booth, Times Online, UK economy will shrink faster than rest of the developed world, IMF predicts
1/28/09 Devarakonda, IPS, ECONOMY: 'Privatise Profits, Socialise Losses'
1/28/09 Kollewe, Guardian, IMF: UK economy will be hardest hit in worst recession since second world war
1/28/09 BBC, Global job losses 'could hit 51m'
1/28/09 BBC, World growth 'worst for 60 years'
1/28/09 Nesbitt & Yusuf, FPIF, Strategic Dialogue: Somalia
January 27, 2009
1/27/09 Blomfield, Telegraph, Russian stability threatened by anger over economy
1/27/09 Stiglitz, CNN, Commentary: How to rescue the bank bailout
1/27/09 BBC, Canada set for stimulus spending
1/27/09 Lieber, Village Voice, What Cooked the World's Economy?
January 26, 2009
1/26/09 Adams, CSM, Filipina activist boosts overseas workers
1/26/09 Loyn, BBC, UN debates global food cost rise
1/26/09 Reuters, Caterpillar Moves to Cut 20,000 Jobs
1/26/09 Sinharoy, ITT, Blackwater to Battle Pirates
1/26/09 BBC, Caterpillar reveals huge job cuts
1/26/09 BBC, Crisis claims Icelandic cabinet
January 25, 2009
1/25/09 Mason, AP, World's highest drug levels entering India stream
1/25/09 Schwartz, NYT, At Davos, Crisis Culls the Guest List
January 24, 2009
1/24/09 Faiola, WP, Downturn Accelerates As It Circles The Globe
1/24/09 Seager & Milner, Guardian, Lights go out across Britain as recession hits home
1/24/09 Goldman, Asia Times, Fixing the bank crisis is the easy part
1/24/09 Reuters, China denounces U.S. currency accusation
1/24/09 IHT, Iceland's political scene melting
1/24/09 Kwidini, IPS, ZIMBABWE: ''Dollarisation'' of Economy Hitting Poor Hard
1/24/09 BBC, Migrants escape on Italian island
January 23, 2009
1/23/09 Gunnarson, AP, Iceland prime minister calls national elections
1/23/09 Harden, WP, Japan Works Hard to Help Immigrants Find Jobs
1/23/09 Duffy, BBC, Changing times for Brazil's landless
1/23/09 BBC, Spain's jobless rate hits 13.9%
1/23/09 Nebehay, Reuters, Red Cross: Zimbabwe Cholera Epidemic Could Top 60,000
January 22, 2009
1/22/09 Al Jazeera, Global slump hits Asian economies
1/15/09 (web 1/22) Grieder, Nation, The Crisis Is Global
1/22/09 RIA Novosti, China sentences two to death over melamine milk
1/22/09 BBC, Intel shedding up to 6,000 jobs
1/22/09 Nye, BBC, Citi wants further help for banks
January 20, 2009
1/20/09 Roberts, Guardian, The nuclear options (economy)
January 19, 2009
1/19/09 McDowell, AP, Palm oil frenzy threatens to wipe out orangutans
1/19/09 BBC, New plan to boost banks' lending
January 18, 2009
1/18/09 BBC, Mugabe calls for government deal
January 17, 2009
1/17/09 Nsingo, IPS, ZIMBABWE: Now a 'Factory for Poverty'
1/17/09 Leonnig, WP, Bailed-Out Firms Have Tax Havens, GAO Finds
1/17/09 ElBoghdady & Cohen, WP, The Growing Foreclosure Crisis
1/17/09 BBC, Bush signs Peru free trade pact
January 16, 2009
1/16/09 Gilmore, Times Online, Bank shares gyrate as short-selling ban ends
1/16/09 Izumi & Massy-Beresford, Reuters, Toyota and Honda cut more output amid EU gloom
1/16/09 Michael, IPS, EAST AFRICA: Even Fish Heads Are Now Unaffordable
1/16/09 Goldman et al, CNN, BofA: $20B bailout, huge Merrill loss
1/16/09 Aly, CSM, War crimes charges rattle Sudan
1/16/09 BBC, Zimbabwe rolls out Z$100tr note
1/16/09 Head, BBC, Thais hold more migrants amid row
1/16/09 BBC, Irish bank set to be nationalised
January 15, 2009
1/15/09 Bhaumik, BBC, Thais 'leave boat people to die'
1/15/09 Andrews, NYT, Rescue of Banks Hints at Nationalization
January 14, 2009
1/14/09 Arthur, IPS, HAITI: New Peasant Alliance Demands Action on Food Crisis
January 10, 2009
1/10/09 CNN, Zimbabwe introduces new $50 billion note
January 9, 2009
1/09/09 Gray, Telegraph, Destructive Alien Species Being Transported Around the World by Sea
1/09/09 Bice, CNN, Government fights slave labor in Brazil
1/09/09 Henshaw, BBC, Uneasy peace in Sudan ghost town
January 8, 2009
1/08/09 Cronin, IPS, DEVELOPMENT: Africa May Face 'Centuries' of Poverty
1/08/09 Sterling, CNN, Navy creates force devoted to fighting piracy
1/08/09 Al Jazeera, 'Indian Enron' rocks business world
1/08/09 Monaghan, Daily Telegraph, Bank of England cuts interest rates to lowest in more than 300 years
January 5, 2009
1/05/09 Salazar, IPS, PERU: Open-Pit Mine Continues to Swallow City
January 4, 2009
1/04/09 Stewart, Guardian, Credit squeeze will hit poor nations
January 3, 2009
1/03/09 Lewis & Einhorn, NYT, The End of the Financial World as We Know It
1/03/09 BBC, The curse of Nigerian oil
January 2, 2009
1/02/09 Rice, Guardian, Three million customers and still counting: the bank getting rich by helping the poor
1/02/09 Adams, CSM, China favors jobs at home over freer trade
1/02/09 Al Jazeera, Data points to further Asian woes
1/02/09 Frierson, Reuters, Factories mired in worst slump in 28 years
January 1, 2009
1/01/09 McAlister, Guardian, Green revolution stalls on cheap oil