Markets Shudder as Saudis, Russia Clash Over Oil

DAVID McHUGH / The Associated Press Mar 9, 2020 Prices fall, with wide-ranging implications for consumers and oil companies, including those in the No. 1 producing country, the U.S. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The Disaster of Utopian Engineering

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jan 28, 2020 Neoliberalism, the latest utopian project, aims at concentrating wealth in the hands of the few while reducing the many to peonage. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Even the IMF Is Calling for Higher Taxes on the Rich

Ilana Novick / Truthdig Jan 7, 2020 International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva says the move would reduce income inequality. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Politics

Argentina Defies the Americas’ Crisis of Democracy

Jacob Sugarman / Truthdig Dec 23, 2019 As regional powers backslide and Donald Trump looms, one nation offers a popular, progressive alternative. A dispatch from Buenos Aires. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

The IMF Is Utterly Indifferent to the Pain It’s Causing

Vijay Prashad / Independent Media Institute Oct 15, 2019 Violent demonstrations in Ecuador lay bare the human toll of the organization's enforced austerity measures across the developing world. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Central Bankers’ Desperate Grab for Power

Ellen Brown / Truthdig Sep 17, 2019 Central bankers are proposing a radical economic reset that would shift even more power from governments to themselves. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match in China

Ellen Brown / Truthdig Aug 7, 2019 The escalating trade war comes down to a clash of two models. Here’s why the West’s may not stand to win. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

The New York Times Won’t Stop Pushing Crank Economics

Dean Baker / FAIR Feb 25, 2019 Despite a wealth of evidence to the contrary, both in Europe and the U.S., the Grey Lady continues to hold up austerity as a viable model. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

America’s Hostile Venezuela Policy Is Slowly Strangling Haiti

Vijay Prashad / Independent Media Institute Feb 20, 2019 By imposing harsh sanctions on the Maduro government, the U.S. has cut off an essential source of relief for the embattled island nation. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Big Pharma, Bad Policy Are Keeping the World From Ending AIDS

By Vijay Prashad / Independent Media Institute Nov 28, 2018 Dec. 1 marks the 30th World AIDS Day—and despite leaps forward in medicine and awareness in affluent parts of the world, it’s still a big problem elsewhere. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

The Ominous Return of the IMF to Latin America

Vijay Prashad / Independent Media Institute Nov 19, 2018 From Argentina to Nicaragua and Mexico, the region's most vulnerable are being punished for the malfeasance of global finance. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

U.S.-Pakistan Relations on a Razor’s Edge

Zubeida Mustafa / Truthdig Nov 8, 2018 The Afghanistan War stalemate and Islamabad's economic plight are adding to tensions. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )