Review (Guest): Beyond Mainstream Explanations of the Financial Crisis – Parasitic Finance Capital

Ismael Hossein-azdeh Review of Hossein-zadeh, Ismael. 2014. Beyond Mainstream Explanations of the Financial Crisis: Parasitic Finance Capital., May 16, 2014 By Isaac Christiansen Ismael Hossein-zadeh has done a masterful job in explaining the causes of the 2007-08 financial collapse and in identifying what must be done in response. He sets out in Beyond Mainstream Explanations …

Berto Jongman: GlobalPost Editor on 5 Political Crisis Threatening to Wreck the Global Economy and Life As We Know It…

5 political crises that are threatening to wreck the global economy and life as we know it Thomas Mucha, Editor GlobalPost, 14 June 2014 BOSTON — Hi, America. We need to talk. While you’ve been obsessing over who was unhappy at Kim Kardashian’s Florentine wedding or where Pitbull got his mom-capris in Brazil (I know, right?), …

Berto Jongman: South Sudan Crisis at Tipping Point — But Donors Still in Grid-Lock with Ancient Protocols

South Sudan crisis: famine and genocide threaten to engulf nation Aid agencies say South Sudan at ‘tipping point’ as ethnic violence puts millions of people at risk of starvation and disease It is happening again. Twenty years after the genocide in Rwanda, 30 years after the famine in Ethiopia, Africa‘s twin scourges are back. This …

Tikkun Rabbi Michael Turner: What Do the Suicides of Fifty-Year-Old Men Reveal? Public Health Emergency Exposes Economic and Existential Crisis

What Do the Suicides of Fifty-Year-Old Men Reveal? The Public Health Emergency Exposes an Economic and Existential Crisis Margaret Morganroth Gullette Tikkun, Spring 2014 ver the past decade of devastating recession and feeble recovery, there has been a sharp rise in suicides of men aged fifty and over — almost 50 percent, according to the …

Berto Jongman: 5 Short Videos – Big Data, ICTs and New Media in Times of Crisis

Big Data, ICTs and New Media in Times of Crisis On March 28, the ISN hosted a Roundtable Discussion on “Big Data, ICTs and Social Media in Times of Crisis,” which featured Mr Sanjana Hattotuwa, who is both a TED Fellow and a Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation. Our purpose today is to share …