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How easy is it to get filthy rich selling arms to anyone who’ll pay?

April 7, 2025 Steven Jay

Source: Tax Justice Network How easy is it to get filthy rich selling arms to anyone who’ll pay? There may be sanctions, there may be laws, but even though he’s the FBI’s most wanted fugitive, a Chinese arms dealer and manufacturer […]

How the corporation blocks real democracy

January 19, 2025 Steven Jay

Corporations vs Democracy Prof. Wolff analyzes the corporation. It stands as a basic institution blocking real democracy in our society. The corporation’s structure and operations empower and enrich a tiny social minority at the expense of the people’s wealth and […]

Reuters Report: Who’s paying for news?

May 29, 2024 Steven Jay

This report uses survey data from 20 countries and qualitative research from the United Kingdom (UK), United States (US), and Germany to explore who is paying for news content online, which publications they pay for, how much they pay, and […]

Community Barter Groups

February 12, 2024 Steven Jay

Money Soup: A Legal Guide to Bartering, Giving, and Getting Stuff without Dollars, put together by the Sustainable Economies Law Center. Barter markets: sustaining people and nature in the Andes Panamédica Cooperativa de Salud . Fitzroy Urban Harvest Words: […]

How to Start a Local Investing Group

February 12, 2024 Steven Jay

Joining with others to provide capital for new or established local businesses is a great way to meet entrepreneurs in your community, strengthen relationships among friends, and bring more vitality to your local economy. Take action How to Invest Local by […]

How to Support fundamental change of the financial system.

February 12, 2024 Steven Jay

Local finance and banking alternatives can help communities and local economies, but their impacts will not be big enough to fundamentally remake the global financial system. For that, policy changes that extend beyond the local level will be needed. Get started […]

How to create or join a community shared resources network

February 11, 2024 Steven Jay

Words: Mobilized News, Streetbank, Shareable, Local Futures Production: Mobilized News Resources: How to start a community tool share 300 Guides to help your community thrive Local Sharing with your neighbors

How to start a food cooperative

February 11, 2024 Steven Jay

Resource: How to start a food cooperative Words: Mobilized News, Community Wealth.org, Local Futures Producer: Mobilized News

Tax Justice Network: Monopolies and Market Power

January 23, 2024 Steven Jay

When dominant multinationals get to run the world, it’s not a happy place. Or a very secure one. For a long time governments have failed to take the threat from monopolies and the corporate concentration of power seriously, and deal […]

Tax Justice Network: Spoiled Pets, Private Jets

January 23, 2024 Steven Jay

In this episode Naomi Fowler looks at how the very wealthy shape the world, why the rest of us really, really can’t afford them. And, how it never ends just with the pet mansions and the cashmere-lined private jets, as the fascinating […]

Tax Justice Network: Who Owns the Climate Crisis?

January 23, 2024 Steven Jay

We’re experiencing the hottest global temperatures ever recorded. For millions of us, the climate crisis is already hitting hard. And we need to know, we must know – WHO are the beneficial owners of the climate crisis? It’s surprisingly difficult to find […]

Tax Justice Network: That War on Drugs

January 23, 2024 Steven Jay

“The toughest laws created the toughest criminals. The only thing we’re doing is increasing the violence. And at this point, where we are now, only the most violent will survive. We have to ask about political will here. What are […]

Permaculture marketplace for ethical shopping

November 29, 2023 Steven Jay

By Saniya Malhotra Shopping seems like a task for most people who want to embrace the permaculture approach to life. When you want to intertwine your life to principles like ‘produce no waste’ or ‘find slow and simple solutions’ or […]