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 29 Aug 2002 @ 03:02
Do schemata control the world? What are schemata anyway?
In the centre of the page, a 10 year-old boy is pictured looking down the sights of an AK-47 rifle. This marks the start of the 'World' section in a throw-away copy of the Sydney Morning Herald dated Wednesday July 24th, a newspaper considered to be one of Australia's most intelligent broadsheets. More >
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 15 Aug 2002 @ 17:20
In early May this year, US war veterans made an important journey to Iraq to help repair four water treatment facilities in the southern province of Al-Basrah that had been devastated by bombing and sanctions.
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 29 Jul 2002 @ 21:07
In recent times, local economies have fallen victim to globalisation, but this process is not inevitable or non-reversible. Rather than being colonies of the global economy, our villages, towns, and cities have the potential to be largely self-sufficient in essentials. In Western countries, it is only a relatively short space of time since this level of self-reliance existed nearly everywhere. More >
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 11 Jul 2002 @ 19:57
In most industrialised countries, the vast majority of money is created by the banking sector as a debt in the form of loans. A small remainder is issued by governments in the form of notes and coins, as a debt-free injection into the economy. More >
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 2 Jul 2002 @ 22:10
The Bretton Woods System takes its name from the 1944 conference that gave birth to three international institutions - the IMF, the World Bank and GATT (the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade). It was the basis for the post-war global economy. More >
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