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This blog is from Sarah Anderson, IPS Global Economy Project Director. Originally posted on the Huffington Post.
The 99 percent and the 0.001 percent agree on something, but the Obama administration is holding out.
The world's second-richest man and a group of American nurses on the...
Cannes - where could be a better setting for the next scene in our modern day Robin Hood story? After a fantastic day of media coverage and campaign support yesterday in the UK we arrived, ready for the fight.
The day started on a high with Bill Nighy putting in another remarkably passionate interview as ambassador of the campaign. This was followed by a media event...
Tomorrow the G20 meets for 48 hours to discuss the state of the word economy. It is a meeting of leaders from the the richest countries and includes the UK, the United States, Russia, Japan, Brazil and China. The G20 was created as a response to global economic crisis in late 90s. Over ten years and two crises later and we still have a broken global economic system. And it's hurting the worlds poorest people hardest. This time we need action....
Respected medical humanitarian organisation Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) have issued a report today, Five Lives: How a Financial Transaction Tax Could Support Global Health. The report says that the draft EU directive for a...
