Structural Adjustment

The E.C.B. Fiddles While Rome Burns

Ellen Brown | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Eurozone, European Debt Crisis, Goldman Sachs, European Union, European Central Bank, Structural Adjustment, Sovereign Debt Crisis, Euro, Business News
Ellen Brown

To some people, the European Central Bank seems like a fire department that is letting the house burn down to teach the children not to play with matc...

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U.S. Backs Tunisian Dictatorship in Face of Pro-Democracy Uprising

Stephen Zunes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nonviolent Action, US Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Human Rights, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia, Structural Adjustment, Egypt Protests, World News
Stephen Zunes

In the course of some civil insurrections, Washington has strongly condemned the regime. Most of the time, however, Washington has either backed the government or largely remained silent.

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Destroying African Agriculture

Walden Bello | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Biofuels, Trade, Food Crisis, Malawi, World Bank, Agriculture, Africa, Imf, Wto, Structural Adjustment, Politics News
Walden Bello

African agriculture is a case study of how doctrinaire economics serving corporate interests can destroy a whole continent's productive base.

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