Goldman's Profits Come from Our Pockets: Why We Need a Tobin Tax

Ellen Brown, 11.09.2009

Author, "Web of Debt"

While Wall Street's welfare queens have been busy collecting generous government handouts, the 50 states have been left to fend for themselves.

Africa's Seat at the Table

President Abdoulaye Wade, 11.05.2009

President of Senegal

Battling global warming, the economic crisis, food and energy shortages, and AIDS and malaria requires co-partners, not post-colonial relationships.

President Obama Must Take the Lead on Climate Finance

Amb. Nancy E. Soderberg, 10.30.2009

The developed world -- responsible for both today's financial as well as climate crisis -- must help pay the costs for the developing world to do the right thing.

The Summit of our Campaign.Taking a Stand on Poverty to Show we Mean Business

Kumi Naidoo, 10.16.2009

Executive Director, Greenpeace International

To watch the world's leaders meet in at this year's G20, G8 and EU, AU and other regional forums, has been to witness a great neglect of people who su...

Time for Economic Polluters to Pay Up? Tobin or not Tobin...

Sony Kapoor, 10.14.2009

Ex-investment banker and Managing Director of Re-Define

The financial crisis, the biggest in living memory, has tilted the political and financial landscape in a direction that makes Tobin Taxes not just more desirable but also much easier to implement.

You Can't Eat Potential

Glenn Denning, 10.06.2009

Columbia U. Professor, global agriculture and food security

The global epicenter of chronic hunger is Africa. The good news is that hunger can be ended within a few years with targeted investments based on our current knowledge.

A Revolution of Values, Bearing Witness to the Death of Our Rights

Jeanine Molloff, 10.06.2009

"Am I calling for an armed insurrection? Hardly, and only because I don't think it's possible or probable that an armed revolution would be successful..." said Sheehan.

Financial Crisis: Four Take Aways from Istanbul

Barry D. Wood, 10.05.2009

Writes about the global economy from Washington.

Four broad messages emerged last week from the annual gathering in Istanbul of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, including that the worst of the financial crisis is behind us.

Oh, Yes We Can!

Carl Pope, 11.30.2009

Executive Director of the Sierra Club

San Francisco -- As the Senate slogs forward, and the Chamber of Commerce drags its feet, and the U.S. disappoints the rest of the world at the Bangko...

Obama Is No FDR

Eric Stoner, 11.30.2009

Adjunct professor at St. Peter's College and editor of Waging Nonviolence

Rather than encouraging grassroots protest to help push the public debate and further a progressive legislative agenda as Roosevelt did, Obama is unfortunately publicly trying to quash pressure from the left.

Letting Our Actions Speak

Bob McKinnon, 11.30.2009

Founder, YELLOWBRICKROAD

Every generation makes an implicit promise to leave their children a better world than they themselves inherited. In America, we have been fortunate to make good on that promise for almost three hundred years.

Obama and China: Vandalism or Vision

Robert L. Borosage, 11.29.2009

Co-Director of the Campaign for America’s Future

If the U.S. increases exports, mercantilist nations like China, Germany and Japan will have to save less and spend more, import more and export less.

The G20 Summit: Hijacked by Neo-Liberalism

Marshall Auerback, 11.29.2009

Roosevelt Institute Braintruster

Government deficits are not an aberration; they are the norm. Our first (and possibly greatest) Treasury Secretary, Alexander Hamilton, called the national debt a "national blessing."

Weekly Audit: We Need a 'People's Bailout'

The Media Consortium, 11.29.2009

Network of Leading Progressive Independent Journalism Organizations

By Zach Carter, Media Consortium Blogger The economic free-fall is finally slowing down, although nobody expects the recovery to be very pleasant. Jo...

G-20 Doesn't Offer Much Reform

Mark Weisbrot, 11.29.2009

Co-director, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, D.C.

The expansion from the G-8 to the G-20 is mostly a symbolic move. Since the rich countries control the institutions with actual power, the G-20 is still mainly the G-7 with the other 13 countries sitting in.

Iran and Afghanistan: The World's Most Dangerous Neighborhoods

Diane Francis, 11.28.2009

Editor at Large, the National Post

No matter what edicts are imposed by this united front -- to curb salaries, fraud or jurisdictional divisions -- there can be no long-term economic stability without world peace.

Afghanistan: Presidential Double Standards and Military Power

Joseph A. Palermo, 11.28.2009

Author/Associate Professor of History

If any president is going to "cut and run" from an American military engagement he or she better be a Republican. This narrative runs deep in American political discourse.

A Peace Activist Thinks About G-20 Again

Reverend Billy, 11.28.2009

Spiritual Leader of the Church of Life After Shopping

Peace will remain an impotent Hallmark Card if we wait for Obama, this recent peace candidate, to emerge from his closed meetings with bankers and generals.

Beyond the Tobin Tax: End the Free Ride for the Financial Sector and Impose Fees to Revive the Economy

Kyle G. Brown, 11.28.2009

Writer and journalist based in Toronto

The most reliable way to expand tax revenues would be to impose a modest fee on every stock, every bond -- in short, every financial transaction.

What We Don't Say About Illegal Immigration

Vanessa Carmichael, 11.28.2009

A writer who resides in Los Angeles

Color discrimination is undeniably widespread in Latin America. How has this caste system gone on for so long without acknowledgment from the international media or the US government?

Words Matter

Jim Wallis, 11.28.2009

Founder of Sojourners; speaker, author, activist

I heard commentators say Obama's comments while chairing the Security Council were "just words." Fair enough, but we haven't heard any words like these from a U.S. president for a long time.