Friday, 19 April , 2024

G20

Platitudes at the G20 can’t mask a world on the brink...

1 July 2019 During the 1930s, known as the “disastrous decade,” there were all kinds of twists and turns in relations between the great powers...

G20 Summit: “Trumps, Bolsonaros, Macris Only Cause Desolation”

1 December 2018 Argentine workers' unions are also joining the protest against the G20 Summit and its participants. Thousands of demonstrators marched in Buenos Aires, Argentina,...

Trump, the terror of the World

Trump cancels G20 meeting with Putin amid rising tensions By Andre Damon 30 November 2018 As world leaders head to the G20 Summit, the United States...

1000 ghostly figures march the streets of hamburg in protest for...

On july 5th 2017, 1000 figures covered in clay appeared on the streets of hamburg, germany – silently protesting on the occasion of the...

G-20 drops anti-protectionist pledge

G-20 Drops Anti-Protectionist Pledge as Price of U.S. Assent by Rainer Buergin, Jeff Black  and Josh Wingrove Finance chiefs of the world’s largest economies set...

The Halt In Global Trade Growth And The Rise Of Neo-Mercantilism

The process of globalization is in retreat. The latest victim of the global economic slowdown is international trade: after tumultuous growth in the last 26 years, disrupted only temporarily by the financial crisis of 2008-2009, the estimated volume of goods and services traded globally has been stalled for more than 18 months around $13 trillion. So

Clearing Up This Mess

John Maynard Keynes had the answer to the crisis we’re now facing; but it was blocked and then forgotten. By George Monbiot. Published in the...