Higher education has been financialized, transformed from a public service into a lucrative cash cow for private investors.
Poverty
This has always been something that angers me, so it’s about time the MSM turned their spotlight on the subject. Elite tax havens: Trillions of dollars of “dead” money sitting rotting in tax havens while millions struggle to survive. This is what’s wrong (among other things) with the United nations […]
President Robert Mugabe has been fired as the World Health Organisation’s goodwill ambassador only days after his appointment following an outcry mostly from Western countries and non-governmental organisations which questioned his human rights record. WHO director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the first African to head the United Nations organisation, said he […]
How to Wipe Out Puerto Rico’s Debt Without Hurting Bondholders Posted on October 12, 2017 by Ellen Brown During his visit to hurricane-stricken Puerto Rico, President Donald Trump shocked the bond market when he told Geraldo Rivera of Fox News that he was going to wipe out the island’s bond debt. […]
The chilling results of a years-long investigation into abuse at a Catholic orphanage led to the discovery of a mass grave containing 400 children. By Matt Agorist – September 13, 2017 The results of a horrifying investigation into a Catholic orphanage are being released this week. The […]
By Ellen Brown Illinois is teetering on bankruptcy and other states are not far behind, largely due to unfunded pension liabilities; but there are solutions. The Federal Reserve could do a round of “QE for Munis.” Or the state could turn its sizable pension fund into a self-sustaining public bank. […]
Is this really the future of healthcare in America? The Press25 Jul 2017NICK ALLEN PHOTOS: REUTERS People wait to receive medical and dental care at the Remote Area Medical Clinic in Wise, Virginia. “This organisation was designed to parachute into the most God-awful places. I expected to see stuff like […]
More than 20 million people are at risk of starving to death. Will the world step up? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/more-than-20-million-people-are-at-risk-of-starving-to-death-will-the-world-step-up/2017/07/17/c7d7703c-6b14-11e7-b9e2-2056e768a7e5_story.html?utm_term=.812be9058c88 A severely malnourished child lies in the hands of her mother in March as she waits to be processed into a UNICEF-funded health program in Baidoa in southwestern Somalia. (Tony Karumba/Agence France-Presse […]
Rehousing of Grenfell Tower families in luxury block receives mixed response While some residents welcome the families to Kensington Row others are less positive with concerns over future property prices The flats in the Kensington Row development, in Kensington, west London, where some residents affected by the Grenfell Tower disaster […]
Personally, I think this is not so much a British 9/11 as a case of corruption by maintenance neglect of an old building. Nevertheless, the correlation with Ramadan observance was a fortunate coincidence (not that this wasn’t catastrophic enough): JAMES LEMON Last updated 12:25, June 15 2017 Muslim residents of London’s […]