The Panama Papers is a global investigation into the sprawling, secretive industry of offshore that the world’s rich and powerful use to hide assets and skirt rules by setting up front companies in far-flung jurisdictions. According to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which coordinated the research on a trove of more than 11 …more…
Greed
Facts of Life!
Austerity has been forced on the country. In reality the cuts and savings are being directed at public services and benefits, which only affect the middle classes, the poor and the most in-need in our society. Yet the country’s debts and financial strains were directly caused by the practices of the wealthiest with the banks …more…
An animated interview of John Perkins, author of ‘HoodWinked’ and ‘Confessions Of An Economic Hitman’
John Perkins is an American author. His best known book is Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2004), in which Perkins claims to have played a role in an alleged process of economic colonization of Third World countries on behalf of what he portrays as a cabal of corporations, banks, and the United States …more…
Does Money Make You Mean?
The good people at ‘TED’ have done it again. Watch here as social psychologist Paul Piff analyses the psychological effect that wealth has on us as humans. Piff uses various experiments on social behaviour, such as a rigged game of monopoly, to show us how we psychologically change with how much money/how successful we become. …more…
EPISODE 1 – GREED & AUSTERITY
Through 4 years of a coalition government, austerity has been forced on the country. In reality the cuts and savings are being directed at public services and benefits, which only affect the middle classes, the poor and the most in-need in our society. Yet the country’s debts and financial strains were directly caused by the practices …more…
Why The Autumn Statement Is Classist Warfare
For as long as I can remember, The Conservatives have always battled against the ‘posh boy’ stigma. You know the one. ‘Tories are all privileged, private schooled toffs who don’t really know how the world works for actual, normal, working people.’ Well, if you had any doubts, the spending review cemented that theory. As the …more…
MAN vs EARTH
In his latest video, “Man vs. Earth,” spoken word artist Prince Ea opens by saying, “Fun fact: Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old, mankind, about 140,000 years old. Let me put that in perspective. If you condense the Earth’s lifespan into 24 hours—that’s one full day—then we have been here for, drum roll please, three …more…