A Safe and a Shotgun or Publicly-owned Banks? The Battle of Cyprus Posted on March 21, 2013 by Ellen Brown If these worries become really serious, . . . [s]mall savers will take their money out of banks and resort to household safes and a shotgun. – Martin Hutchinson on the attempted EU raid on …
RESTORING DEMOCRACY: THE ROLE OF MONEY AND POLITICS
RESTORING DEMOCRACY: THE ROLE OF MONEY AND POLITICS A Roundtable October 2, 2012 Holland & Hart LLP 555 17th Street, Suite 3200 Denver, CO 80202
Adair Turner: Reforming Global Finance — Announcing Ford Foundation Editorial Project
We at Ethical Markets Media applaud The Globalist and offer our help in this new initiative. Hazel Henderson, Editor The Globalist’s “Reforming Global Finance” Series We are pleased to announce the launch of our Reforming Global Finance series. This series will present essays and analyses by experts in the …
Banking vs. Democracy
This report asks if power has shifted from Westminster down the river to the City of London. What we find is a banking system that has more ‘spending power’ than the democratically elected government, no accountability to the people, and massive concentration of power in the hands of a few …
Overturning ‘Citizens United’ Isn’t Enough! Lawrence Lessig on the Campaign Finance Racket (Video)
Overturning the Citizens United ruling “terrifies” Lessig because “it imagines somehow that on January 20, 2010 ? the day before Citizens United was decided ? our democracy was fine and Citizens United broke it. But of course, the democracy was already broken.” Lessig elaborated on how to get back on …
A New Report on U.S. Jobs Program that Create Livelihoods
A New Report on U.S. Jobs Program that Create Livelihoods A Main Street Fix for Wall Street’s Failures is a report of the New Economy Working Group produced in collaboration with the New Economy Network; it is an outcome of a series of conversations focused on building a policy agenda …
Arab Spring, American Fall
Arab Spring, American Fall Posted: 11/30/11 05:45 PM ET By Jim Garrison With the elimination of the Los Angeles and Philadelphia Occupy sites, the Federal Government, in partnership with mayors across the U.S., has essentially closed down most of the Occupy sites across the nation, replacing protestors representing the 99 …
4 Stars: Truthout reprints YES magazine piece on Time Banking/New Money for a New World &Dare to Care
Some folks have services to provide, but no job. Some have a need for services, but no money. Impossible situation, right? Wrong. We, too, can “print our own money,” in the form of Time Dollars — the simplest, easiest-to-establish, and most hassle-free form of parallel currency, which can be implemented …
Crowdsourcing democracy through social media
As reported on physorg.com Liberia, a country that only recently emerged from a brutal civil war, is having presidential elections. A Georgia Tech professor is experimenting with a novel idea: Crowdsourcing reports on how elections are running and making available timely reports to prevent any dangerous situations from occurring. Read more…