$1bn fraud at Kabul Bank upsets UK pull-out from AF

Note buried within the report about classification of documents…….. $1bn fraud at Kabul Bank puts UK’s Afghan pull-out in peril IMF and Britain’s foreign aid department both withhold money for reconstruction By Jonathan Owen and Brian Brady Sunday, 22 May 2011 EXTRACT: The Department for International Development (DfID) confirmed last night that it had followed …

Worth a Look: The Anti-Globalization Breakfast Club: Manifesto for a Peaceful Revolution

Alternative models for grass roots economic development such as micro-financing are now being widely adopted in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and elsewhere. New views on measuring development such as GDH (gross domestic happiness) have been adopted by Bhutan rather than GDP, and China’s own hybrid approach combining market and planned policy to achieve economic transformation offer …

Guest Post: Analysis of the Global Insurrection Against Neo-Liberal Economic Domination and the Coming American Rebellion

Guest Post: Analysis of the Global Insurrection Against Neo-Liberal Economic Domination and the Coming American Rebellion Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/26/2011 20:53 -0500 If you think what’s happening in Egypt won’t happen within the United States, you’ve been watching too much TV. The statistics speak for themselves. In previous Revolution Roundups, before we were …