by MGx Staff | Jan 17, 2015 | Economy
Published on Thursday, January 15, 2015 by Common Dreams by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer Fast-tracked international trade deals have led to exploding U.S. trade deficits, soaring food imports into the U.S., increased off-shoring of American jobs, and an...
by MGx Staff | Jan 2, 2015 | Economy
Published on Thursday, January 01, 2015 by Common Dreams by Jon Queally, staff writer Last year, the United Nation’s Food and Agricultural Organization officially declared that 2015 would be celebrated as the International Year of the Soil citing the threat to...
by MGx Staff | Dec 29, 2014 | Economy
Published on Monday, December 29, 2014 by Common Dreams by Jon Queally, staff writer “The future has already begun.” That’s what Alexis Tsipras, head of the leftwing Syriza Party in Greece, reportedly said on Monday after parliament failed in its...
by MGx Staff | Nov 6, 2014 | Economy
Published on Thursday, November 06, 2014 by Common Dreams by Jon Queally, staff writer More than 300 global corporations and financial institutions—including well-known names like Pepsi Co., FedEx, JP Morgan Chase, and Amazon—have created complex tax avoidance schemes...
by MGx Staff | Nov 2, 2014 | Economy
Published on Saturday, November 01, 2014 by Common Dreams by Lauren McCauley, staff writer Update 2:20 EST: Protest organizers Right 2 Water estimate that over 150,000 people came out to protest the water charge scheme. In a statement released Saturday afternoon, they...
by MGx Staff | Oct 28, 2014 | Economy
Published on Tuesday, October 28, 2014 by Common Dreams by Sarah Lazare, staff writer Children remain “the most enduring victims” of the recession in the world’s wealthiest nations, where 2.6 million children have fallen below the poverty line since...
