Photo by Maz Kessler Joan Walsh of www.salon.com asked me some questions on Occupy Wall Street and wrote this article: As the Occupy Wall Street movement spreads to dozens more cities and towns, it’s waking many Americans to the unrivaled control Wall Street exerts over American politics and the economy. It’s also shining a spotlight […]
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Last Sunday I went on the Sunday Morning show with Ricky Ross to talk about Jubilee 2000, the fight to cancel the debt of the world’s poorest countries, and how the campaign on issues of international finance, sovereign debt and social justice continue. I also got to play some of my favourite bits of music
4th January, 2010 I am proud of the great Jubilee 2000 petition, which I helped draft. Within a short time, and making revolutionary use of the internet, we had circulated the petition worldwide. Millions were printed, signed and returned in battered packages to our small HQ in London. As Paula Goldman noted in an article
Debtonation Readers: This is the full version of my latest blog for Huffington Post:15th March, 2009 Once a-ponzi time, millions worshiped at the feet of the Wizards of Finance. These Wizards preached an economic religion that promised security and an abundance of riches from the ‘Emerald City’ — Wall St. Investors following this religion were
The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, speaking on Radio 4’s flagship current affairs programme this morning, repeated something he says regularly: that ‘interest rates are low’ and that his government, through the Bank of England, kept them low. The question the BBC should have asked is this: if interest rates are low, and have been so,
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