Lu00e9once Ndikumana: $619 billion of embezzled capital flight from North Africa with connivance of big banks according to new research.
Economy & Labor
A clothing factory in Bangladesh that has ties to Wal-Mart suffered a massive fire Saturday that left at least 118 dead.
Richard D. Wolff: Worker self-direction is a solution for the bankrupt Hostess bakery.
A wave of historic protests struck the retail giant Walmart on Black Friday – the busiest shopping day of the year.
Michael Hudson: Fiscal cliff was manufactured to shift more of the burden of the crisis onto ordinary people.
Bill Black: Banks try to start a run on the banks in Ecuador.
Todayu2019s news about the demise of Twinkie and other Hostess snacks is a complicated story of big business versus labor.
Updates on politicians’ big business incomes after their government jobs and the debate over social security.
To protect the planet, Klein says we need both market incentives and a government that will say no to the fossil fuel lobby.
Coal baron Robert Murray recently announced he’s laying off 163 of his employees because, he says, President Obama was re-elected, something fishy is going on in Florida’s 18th…