About 75% of US employees work 40 hours or longer, the second longest among all OECD countries, exceeded only by Poland and tied with South…
Greece
For a moment this summer, it appeared that Greece had cornered its creditors. In a hotly contested vote in which their European neighbors openly intervened,…
SAINT-JEROME, Quebec –— Modern Greek tragedy is at play, and so are illusions. The big myth is that Greece overspent and the Greek government was…
Today on "This Can't Be Happening!" journalist Alfredo Lopez talks with colleague and host Dave Lindorff about two stories that intimately concern him. The first…
Is the financial deprivation of entire nations engendering a new level of frustration and political unrest? Are the unlikely top-ranked US presidential candidates a sign…
Debt: The Creation of A Global Crisis The forced, politically engineered bankruptcy of the City of Detroit has been an ongoing discussion on Leid Stories…
Carolyn and Mark Matousek discuss his work with helping people transform through telling the truth about their own personal stories. [embed]http://lifeboathour.podbean.com/mf/web/td2zgq/LifeboatHour_073115.mp3[/embed] Download this episode (right…
Geneva International Centre for Justice released on 27 July 2015 its report ‘Swimming Against the Tides: Examining the EU Response to Irregular Migration through the…
From Brazil to India and from California to Detroit, taps are running dry, as the water crisis goes global. Detroit grabbed headlines when the city…
What do you call a country that has grown 4.6 per cent - in total - since it joined the euro 16 years ago? Well, probably…
In 2010 the Greek state lost the capacity to service its debt. Put simply, it became insolvent and thus lost access to capital markets. To…
The headline economic numbers are far better now than in 2008-2009. The unemployment rate, the GDP, the national deficit, the stock market, etc. have all…