by Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Sirs: This is in response to the entry posted on your American Monetary Institute blog on August 16, 2009, which references my articles on a state-owned bank solution to the credit crisis. I was disappointed to read that you thought my proposal was “an …
Appreciating Maurice Strong
Hazel Henderson, August 2009 “Maurice Strong is a unique player on the world stage. His career is also improbable and very inspiring, as he followed his own vision for a better world through thick and thin. I found Maurice a wonderful role model and sometimes I was fortunate that he …
How Nuclear Just Got Bum-rushed
By Nick Hodge | Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 Have you read the latest Monthly Energy Review, published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration? If you have, you know something that most don’t and that some wish you had never learned. If you haven’t, don’t worry. . . I’m about to …
Privatisation in the Enemy of Sustainable Agriculture
Posted September 1, 2009 By Vandana Shiva (*) NEW DELHI, Aug (IPS) The privatisation of the earth’s resources is a recipe for famine and desertification, violence against women, hunger, and, as happens in India, the suicide of farmers.