The IMF and World Bank are knocking on Latin America's door. A headline in Tuesday's Washington Post reads, "Latin America Appears to Warm to IMF." But that is not what Bolivia's Evo Morales--the country's first indigenous president--said last week when he spoke in front of the United Nations on Earth Day. Morales told reporters that the IMF had "blackmailed" his country and that privatization of basic services and natural resources was not an option. GRITtv had a chance to sit down with Morales and discu
Some time in the 1960's, in the heart of Africa, a new animal was introduced into Lake Victoria as a little scientific experiment. The Nile Perch, a voracious predator, extinguished almost the entire stock of the native fish species. However, the new fish multiplied so fast, that its white fillets are today exported all around the world. Huge hulking ex-Soviet cargo planes come daily to collect the latest catch in exchange for their southbound cargo… Kalashnikovs and ammunitions for the uncounted wars in
Dario Fo, on the new terror, the financial and economic one, and the bailout of banks.
Intervento di DARIO FO, premio Nobel per la letteratura 1997, all'interno del primo Convegno internazionale sulla decrescita ed i centri europei per l'energia - Una alternativa in pratica - Gambettola 21-22 giugno 2008
More at http://therealnews.com/c.ph... Noam Chomsky: Current crisis demonstrates anti-democratic nature of financial system
10/21/08: PBS NEWS HOUR Interview with Nassim Nicholas Taleb, famous economist and author of "The Black Swan" and Dr. Mandelbrot, professor of Mathematics. Both say that the present economy more serious than the Great Depression, and the economy during the American Revolution.