One of Britain’s leading social epidemiologists, Richard Wilkinson, looks at what it means to live in a new age of inequality. Wilkinson is the co-author of the groundbreaking, international bestseller The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone.
Category: Economics
The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone
In August, at Marxism 2011, Richard Wilkinson gave the following talk on his book, co-authored with Kate Pickett, The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone.
The League of Gentlemen
A 1992 documentary by the brilliant Adam Curtis about the rise of Monetarism during Britain’s economis crisis in the 1970s. As countries accross Europe bow to the seemingly inexorable logic of austerity and the European Union attempts to lock in a neoliberal model of economic governance, it has lost none of its relevance.
In his most recent blog post, Curtis unearths yet more wonderful archival gems and documentery evidence of what Stuart Hall calls the ‘long march of the neoliberal revolution’.
The Koch Brothers
Al Jazeera’s People and Power investigates the tycoon duo’s ununderground campaign to swing the balance of US power for Republicans.
Africa’s Odious Debts
Boyce and Ndikumana, authors of ‘Africa’s Odious Debts’, argue that under international law, debts incurred by dictators should not be enforceable.
Michael Moore on Occupy Wall Street
Michael Moore talks to CNN’s Piers Morgan about the OWS and more.
Cornel West on the Drone war
Cornel West speaks about inequality, injustice and America’s policy of routine extrajudicial killing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0IlmKVcJ1w
A World United for Human Rights
by William A. Cook
“ … disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people …” — United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Today the American people, in concert with their brothers and sisters around the world, proclaim the rights to which they are entitled by birth and citizenship, by Constitutional law and Proclamation, and by membership in the collective body of nations that has universalized recognition of these rights for all humanity. And today, in cities and hamlets across this nation, and in many nations around the world, people gather in peace to demand of their governments recognition of these rights that have been abrogated by the few and denied to many.
Citizens no longer control their government; they are slaves to it. Representatives no longer serve the citizen seeking their consent to govern, they are servants of the corporations and lobbies that control the economic system to which the citizen is enslaved. Presidents no longer lead, they are the obedient lackeys of their corporate overseers. Freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want do not determine the needs of humans, economics of the market place supersedes all at the expense of the citizen and human rights. We exist in a corporate world of unending wars, of vengeance and recrimination, of fear as a commodity that imprisons the mind, of greed that destroys the resources of this planet without remorse, and of insatiable arrogance that harbors no concern for those it destroys.
Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy
Award-winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz, author of Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy, lays out not only the course of the financial crisis which began in 2007, but its underlying causes, and shows why much more radical reforms are needed than are currently being contemplated if we are to avoid similar ‘systemic’ crises in the future. Showing why the bailout has been only marginally effective and how it could have been much more so, and outlines the enormous opportunity – not yet taken – to design a new global financial architecture.
Brzezinski on wealth inequality and the need for transparency
Smart analysis from one of Washington’s leading cassandras. Brzezinski opposed the Iraq war, has been warning against any confrontation with Iran, and has denounced the grotesque inequalities that beset the unregulated US economy.
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