I'm happy to announce this new paper — we compile evidence on the extraordinary harms caused by IMF and World Bank structural adjustment programmes in the global South since the 1980s.
The empirical record is devastating: documented negative impacts on wages, poverty, inequality, maternal mortality, infant mortality, healthcare access, etc.
SAPs inflicted misery on the periphery in order to curtail their consumption, scupper independent development, and make labour and resources more cheaply available for the core.
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Finnish President Alexander Stubb calls reforms to UN in his speech:
"No single country should have a veto in UN.
A Security Council member should also lose its voting rights for a fixed period if it violates the UN Charter."
💯🎯 Our president couldn't be more right!
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Pep Guardiola, while receiving an honorary degree from the University of Manchester, gave a powerful speech about Gaza:
"It is so painful what we see in Gaza, it hurts all my body...it is not about ideology but the love of life...It is about refusing to be silent or still when it matters the most"
Israel has blocked aid from entering Gaza for over two months. Gazans are at risk of starvation.
International law requires Israel to allow aid to get to civilians. Gaza is no exception to this rule.
All European members of the Security Council call on Israel to let aid in now.
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: "This war in Syria did not come from Assad's dictatorship. This war came from a presidential order by Obama to overthrow Assad starting in the spring of 2011. It was Operation Timber Sycamore."
🚨🇪🇺 Geo-Political Scholar Jeffrey Sachs
Schools the EU Parliament on the reasons behind the Russia Ukraine Conflict.
Every-time Legacy Media or a Politician states the was is “unprovoked” is a complete lie.
This doesn’t even include some of the more grotesque activities Ukraine has been well documented as being involved in.
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