Monthly Archives: August 2021

Transnational Institute materials on corporate power

I’ve just run across a number of very good short videos on corporate power and alternatives, as well as some longer pieces. See the links below. Bob All of these can be found on the TNI web site under their … Continue reading

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TNI: Grappling with growth – Synergies and tensions between degrowth and people’s movements

An excellent piece on degrowth from the Transnational Institute, by Daniel Boston https://longreads.tni.org/grappling-with-growth We live in an age of converging crises. Only days ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a damning report on the state of the … Continue reading

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Guyana’s PPP government to exploit oil before the planet burns down

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday reiterated at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston, USA that the government supports the swift development of the local oil and gas sector as a means of earning as much as possible while global … Continue reading

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American CEOs make 351 times more than workers. In 1965 it was 15 to one | Indigo Olivier | The Guardian

Today in the US, the CEO-to-worker pay gap stands at a staggering 351 to one, an unacceptable increase from 15 to one in 1965. In other words, the average CEO makes nearly nine times what the average person will earn … Continue reading

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