In a letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, US Representative Alan Grayson and three co-signers expressed concern about the expansion of large banks into what have traditionally been non-financial commercial spheres
Money is the lubricant that permits the economic system to work. Goods and wealth that are produced, distributed, circulated, used and owned do so because of money
After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, day to day accounts of what was taking place did not come from left or right wing journalists but from ordinary Iraqi writers, who gave outsiders a unique insight into events
This afternoon [Tuesday] Labour Leader Ed Miliband made his keynote speech to his party's annual conference in Brighton. Speaking as is now usual for more than hour without notes Miliband set out his vision of how "Britain can do better" under Labour, writes David Eade.
The paragon of modern tech risks losing its shine by dodging queries about Indonesia, and an orgy of unregulated tin mining, writes George Monbiot.
We should not underestimate the capacity of the elites to make the most of a crisis situation writes Eric Toussaint
In an August 2013, journalist Greg Palast posted evidence of a secret late-1990s plan devised by Wall Street ans US Treasury officials to open banking to the lucrative derivatives business
Last week the coalition government announced that they are going to float Royal Mail on the stock exchange, ending almost 500 years of the famous institution being government owned
Thomas Riggins analyses Chapter 3 of Lenin's Materialism and Empiro-criticism
Dsvid Eade writes about the battle to ensure Gibraltarians are allowed to vote in the Conservative's EU In-Out Referendum should the Tories be returned to power at the next UK election