August 14, 2009
Why do we go to war? For liberty, justice, humanitarianism? To promote peace? That’s what the sales pitch tells us. Do the invariably rich and powerful men who make the decision to go to war really spend human lives and mountains of money because they are concerned for the fate of their fellow man? It’s [...]
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July 26, 2009
In 2006 the United Nations concluded the largest ever study of wealth distribution by announcing the world’s richest 1% own 40% of all wealth. The report found the richest 10% of adults accounted for 85% of the world total global assets. Half the world’s adult population owned barely 1% of global wealth. (Guardian, 6 December [...]
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