Tag: G20
Inherited wealth boom puts a spotlight on a global inequality emergency
As the G20 prepares to meet in Johannesburg, experts warn that more than $70 trillion set to change hands will entrench wealth gaps and threaten democracy without coordinated action.
Former leaders urge permanent polluter profit taxes to fund climate action
With the United Nations General Assembly underway, former presidents and prime ministers call for permanent polluter profit taxes, subsidy shifts, and fair financing for a just transition.
300+ economists, millionaires, and elected officials to G20: ‘Tax extreme wealth’
While billionaire wealth surged to an all-time high, around 165 million people were thrown into poverty during the pandemic.
G20 nations invested record $1.4 trillion into fossil fuels in 2022,...
Financial support from the G20 was in the form of money borrowed from public financial institutions, subsidies and investments made by state-owned enterprises (SOEs).
‘Blatant disregard of international laws and treaties’: Japan resumes commercial whaling
"We see the resumption of Japan's commercial whaling as merely a continuation of the Japanese Government's blatant disregard of international laws and treaties."
What the G20 showed us about the current global order
These right wing leaders, show that much of the world, rather than embracing extended democracy and social liberalism, is backsliding into some kind of authoritarian nationalism.
Donald Trump’s climate change denial ignites grassroots resistance
The resistance is real, strong and growing, and that cannot be denied.
Ivanka Trump took President Trump’s seat at a meeting with world...
Trump’s choice to seat his daughter at the meeting is causing the American public and foreign politicians to react across the globe.
Power dynamics changing in world order
The U.S. has dominated the world for too long and must learn to become a cooperative partner.
Podesta refers to Trump as ‘whack job’ after Twitter attack
“Dude, get your head in the game. You’re representing the US at the G20.”
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Moderate Democrats: Splitting the party in two
This is the most important midterm election in American history. If the Democratic Party leadership splits the party and the Republicans win, Democrats will go the way of the Whig and the Tory.
ICE killed a Maine father during an operation targeting someone else
Joan Sebastian Guerrero was fatally shot while driving to work, leaving conflicting federal and eyewitness accounts of why an immigration agent opened fire.
Justice Department probe tests the UAW’s reform movement
Shawn Fain denies allegations that he misused union authority as a federal investigation and leadership election place one of organized labor’s most prominent unions under new pressure.
Inside ICE’s largest detention center
A new investigation describes deaths, medical neglect, hidden detainees, and private contractors inside Camp East Montana at Fort Bliss.
The US kicks off world’s largest naval war games: RIMPAC, China, & the cost...
The newest escalation of U.S. preparations for war on China will further militarize the Pacific and normalizing the prospect of conflict through increasingly large-scale exercises and an ever-expanding web of alliances and military bases.