by MGx Staff | Oct 14, 2014 | Economy
Published on Tuesday, October 14, 2014 by Common Dreams by Jon Queally, staff writer The top one percent of the wealthiest people on the planet own nearly fifty percent of the world’s assets while the bottom fifty percent of the global population combined own...
by MGx Staff | Jun 24, 2014 | Economy
Activists in Detroit have appealed to the United Nations over the city’s move to shut off the water of thousands of residents. The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department says half of its 323,000 accounts are delinquent and has begun turning off the taps of those who do...
by MGx Staff | Jun 23, 2014 | Economy
The pro-transparency group WikiLeaks has released the secret draft text for the Trade in Services Agreement, TISA, a trade agreement covering 50 countries and more than 68 percent of world trade in service. Until now, the draft has been classified to keep it...
by MGx Staff | Jun 18, 2014 | Economy
– Andrea Germanos, staff writer The world is continuing a seven-year trend towards a deterioration of peace, the Institute for Economics and Peace finds.In its most recent annual Global Peace Index (pdf) released Wednesday, the think tank ranks 162 nations as...
by magix | May 10, 2014 | Economy
Published on Friday, May 9, 2014 by Common Dreams The GMA wasted no time in announcing its lawsuit to defeat the pro-labeling legislation – Andrea Germanos, staff writer As pro-labeling advocates were cheering Vermont's passage of a GMO labeling bill on...
