The quasi-socialist government of Evo Morales in Bolivia is facing a popular challenge from below. Since May 6, tens of thousands of…

For years already, the youth of Europe’s heavily indebted periphery has been facing mass unemployment. In Greece and Spain, a respective 59…

Christine Lagarde, the former French Finance Minister and current Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, was treated to an…

Let there be no doubt about it: we live in the era of Financial Empire. Unlike the military conquests that drove the…

Sadly, economic policy is guided by neither facts nor ideas — it is guided by power. Ending austerity will require more than…

Buckling under the structural power of its private creditors, the European periphery seems destined for a lost decade of austerity. What can…

In the face of massive popular outrage, Cypriot MPs spectacularly vote against a bank deposit tax imposed by the Troika, leaving the…

Europe’s 2013 protest season finally kicked off this week. On Saturday, three days after the umpteenth general strike paralyzed Greece, a “citizens’…

Indefatigable. That’s probably the word that best describes Egypt’s revolutionaries, two years since the start of their revolt. Fearless and heroic are…

With 500 families being evicted in Spain every day, foreclosures have become a source of great suffering. But luckily, there are still…