Capitalism Creates Poverty

Well, what a momentous week! It started with the 'invincible' Lehman Brothers going bust and moved on through AIG and HBOS, not to ...

At the weekend we had Lehman Brothers going bust , then AIG having a $85 billion handout from the US Government and today HBOS merging with...

A recent report has highlighted the fact that while enough food is being produced to feed the world's population 800 million people are...

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A recent report from the World Bank (WB) estimates that 400Million more people are living in poverty than was previously thought . Here is ...

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The looming recession has r e-ignited the debate about organic food. We are told that people are turning away from organic food because it ...

In response to an earlier comment on my blog, I said I was in the process of writing a paper on how I believe Capitalism creates poverty ra...

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Johann Hari has done us all a service in his latest polemic . If you believe in living in a free society his argument is simple and irrefuta...