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The truth about extreme global inequality

  The World Bank and the IMF have the power to impose economic policies on developing countries even when voters and elected politicians in those countries unanimously reject them [AFP] The crisis of capital, the rise of the Occupy movement and the crash of Southern Europe have brought the problem …

Progressive Commentary Hour – 07/09/12

An in-depth look at the World Trade Organization – what goes on behind its lack of transparency in free market trade treaties to push forward corporate globalization.  And a discussion into the Obama Administrations agenda in secretly negotiating the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement – which is being perceived as possibly …