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Los 17 meses de crisis económica que han transcurrido bajo la pandemia de Covid-19 han sido más rentables para los multimillonarios del mundo que los 15 años anteriores, estableció un reporte publicado este miércoles. Mientras 114 millones de personas en el mundo quedaron desempleadas, 200 millones fueron empujadas a la pobreza, y 15 mil 840 mueren a diario por hambre y desnutrición, la riqueza de los magnates aumentó 69 por ciento, de acuerdo con organizaciones internacionales.

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Read the full article at La Jornada.

A one-time 99% tax on billionaires’ massive pandemic wealth gains would raise enough revenue to pay for coronavirus vaccines for every adult on Earth — and provide each of the hundreds of millions of unemployed workers around the world with a $20,000 cash grant.

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Read the full article at Common Dreams.

If  governments around the world put an excess profits tax on the 2,690 billionaires whose wealth radically increased during the pandemic, it would raise enough money to vaccinate everyone on Earth and give $20,000 cash to every unemployed worker.

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Read the full article at 48 Hills.

A one-off 99% tax on the wealth gains of billionaires made during the pandemic would pay for everyone in the world to be vaccinated for the coronavirus, according to research by…

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Read the full article at Law360.

John Cavanagh, Senior Advisor at the Institute for Policy Studies, talks about the life and career of Richard Trumka, mineworker, labor-leader, and former head of the AFL-CIO, following his recent death on August 5th.

Listen to the full interview at WORT-FM.

The Taliban have continued to seize territory in Afghanistan as the U.S. completes its withdrawal of ground troops from the country, with the militant group now controlling a majority of Afghanistan’s districts and a quarter of provincial capitals. The strength of the Taliban offensive in recent weeks has put the future of Afghanistan’s government in doubt. “This kind of a crisis was inevitable whenever the U.S. pulled out, whether it had been 10 years ago, 19 years ago or 10 years from now,” says foreign policy scholar Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. “This was rooted in the nature of the U.S. occupation that began in 2001.” Congressmember Ro Khanna calls American involvement in Afghanistan a “fool’s errand” that should have ended years earlier.

Watch the full interview at Democracy Now!

Over the past five decades, CEO pay has skyrocketed — but the average wage for workers hasn’t.

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Read the full article at Business Insider.

The dog days of summer are upon us —and the record high temperatures killing hundreds in the Pacific Northwest and bringing 118 degree heat to Siberia serve as a harbinger of even hotter, more dangerous days unless we address the elephant in the room.

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Read the full article at Common Dreams.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee recently passed a measure to repeal both Authorizations for Use of Military Force Against Iraq (1991 and 2002). Phyllis Bennis, Middle East analyst and Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, joins KPFA’s UpFront to discuss.

Listen to the full interview at KPFA.

“The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed”, co-authored by guest John Cavanagh from the Institute for Policy Studies, is a David & Goliath story of the small country of El Salvador’s fight against a large gold mining corporation, Pacific Rim Mining, the World Bank Tribunal, and metal extraction industries in an effort to keep the country’s water clean of mining contaminants. He speaks with Jan Miyasaki about his book.

Listen to the interview at WORT-FM.
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