The FIFA World Cup in Qatar: Geopolitics, money and double standards Peter Schwarz WSWS.org November 25, 2022
Open veins of Africa bleeding heavily Ndongo Samba Sylla and Jomo Kwame Sundaram Inter Press Service November 22, 2022 (Opinion)
Capital flight – involving looted resources laundered via foreign banks – has been bleeding the continent. According to the High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa, the continent was losing over $50 billion annually. This was mainly due to ‘trade mis-invoicing’ – under-invoicing exports and over-invoicing imports – and fraudulent commercial arrangements.
Can we trust corporate media outlets to report on the laws set to govern them? Steve Macek and Andy Lee Roth Truthout November 28, 2022
This fall, the Senate judiciary committee approved legislation that would exempt the nation’s largest news outlets from some antitrust restrictions, allowing major news outlets to collectively negotiate payments from social media companies — such as Google and Facebook — that link to and profit from the outlets’ news reporting. Instead of “preserving” journalism, as the bill’s name suggests, the legislation will primarily benefit large corporate news conglomerates, and will do little, if anything, to preserve or promote public-interest journalism.
