March 2015

A “chronic” food crisis, prompted by climate change.

. Women Turn Drought into a Lesson on Sustainability By Zofeen EbrahimReprint |     Women in Pakistan fare worse than all their neighbours in terms of resilience to climate change. Credit: Ali Mansoor/IPS KARACHI, Mar 17 2015 (IPS) – When a group of women in the remote village of Sadhuraks in Pakistan’s Thar Desert, some …

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Why The 99 percent Keep Losing

      Our current political situation is unprecedented. The vast majority of Americans keep falling behind economically because of changes in society’s ground rules, while the rich get even richer — yet this situation doesn’t translate into a winning politics. If anything, the right keeps gaining and the wealthy keep pulling away. How can …

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China ventures its Coin for World Reserve Currency

  China first delegated the management of gold policy to the People’s Bank by regulations in 1983. This development was central to China’s emergence as a free-market economy following the post-Mao reforms in 1979/82. At that time the west was doing its best to suppress gold to enhance confidence in paper currencies, releasing large quantities …

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