Protests denounce capitalist elite’s anti-people policies
News Desk Islamabad—Protests were held across Pakistan on Saturday against the World Economic Forum (WEF) and its policies, which demonstrators
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Inequality
Private charity: just another scam for 1% rich
We were told that the generosity of the rich would make up for cuts to government services. But those at the top are increasingly using dubious “charitable” ventures as vehicles for profit and influence. Institute for Policy Studies’ report Gilded Giving 2022: How Wealth Inequality Distorts Philanthropy and Imperils Democracy, charitable giving is more dominated than ever by those at the top of the income and wealth pyramid.
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‘Inequality destroying economies, societies’
Covid-19 has exposed the myth of the neoliberal free-market economic model Herald Report The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
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World losing fight against poverty: UN academic
‘We squandered a decade’ says UN’s outgoing special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. Goal to eradicate poverty by 2030
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Pakistan’s younger women riding a digital wave in drive for better jobs
When Kainat Naz joined a women-friendly technology boot camp a year ago, she had no idea it would completely change
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Charity won’t fix inequality. Only structural change will
Swiss activist Loukina Tille, Swedish climate change activists Greta Thunberg and Isabelle Axelsson attend the World Economic Forum annual meeting
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The resurgent left Millennial socialism
A new kind of left-wing doctrine is emerging. It is not the answer to capitalism’s problems AFTER THE collapse of
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The new elite’s phoney crusade to save the world – without changing anything
Today’s titans of tech and finance want to solve the world’s problems, as long as the solutions never, ever threaten
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