Financial Vultures

Niger is the Fourth Country in the Sahel to Experience an Anti-Western Coup

August 4, 2023 UNAC Editor Africa, Anti-Imperialism, coup, Financial Vultures, France, Neocolonialism, Niger, Paths to Emancipation, Resistance

by Vijay Prashad and Kambali Musavuli, produced by Globetrotter, August 1, 2023 At 3 a.m. on July 26, 2023, the presidential guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum in Niamey, the capital of Niger. Troops, led by Brigadier General Abdourahmane Tchiani closed the country’s borders and declared a curfew. The coup d’état was immediately condemned by the Economic Community of West African[…]

Remaking The Economy For The People

April 18, 2020 UNAC Editor Action!!, Austerity, Economic Collapse, Financial Vultures

The Decade Of Transformation Is Here: Remaking The Economy For The People Kevin Zeese & Margaret Flowers, published on Popular Resistance, March 29, 2020 The pandemic, economic collapse and the government’s response to them are going to not only determine the 2020 election but define the future for this decade and beyond. People are seeing the failure of the US[…]

Ecuador: Moreno’s Government Sacrifices The Poor To Satisfy The IMF

October 15, 2019 UNAC Editor Ecuador, Financial Vultures, Indigenous peoples

By Wilma Salgado, Council on Hemispheric Affairs. October 13, 2019 Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno has been cutting government spending since signing an Extended Fund Facility (EFF) agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in February of this year. This policy has benefited multinational corporations, the banks, and in general, powerful economic groups at the expense of the middle and working classes,[…]

Debt-Entrapping: The US Student Loan Racket

September 14, 2019 UNAC Editor Education, Financial Vultures

by Stephen Lendeman, published on Global Research, September 12, 2019. Entrapping students into longterm or permanent debt bondage is part of a government/corporate scheme to enrich private lenders. Because of the high cost of higher education, millions of students need large loans to pay tuition, fees, and other expenses. Some face burdens up to $100,000 or higher. If unpaid after[…]

GM Shareholders Get Boost and Workers Get the Boot

December 22, 2018 UNAC Editor Financial Vultures, Labor

Photo: Eduardo Lima / The Canadian Press by Gary Porter, published on Socialist Action, December 16, 2018 On Nov. 29, analysts making 12-month price forecasts for General Motors Co. projected $45.16 per share—an increase of almost 23 per cent over the current $36.76. This is great holiday news, if you are shareholder. That includes the GM directors who receive 60[…]

How Donald Trump Rode in on “Dark Money”

February 1, 2018 UNAC Editor Financial Vultures, Government Corruption, Imperial greed

“It wasn’t the Russians that brought us Trump, but the usual suspects: private equity and hedge funds bandits.” by Glen Ford, Originally published on Black Agenda Report , Feb 1, 2018 A team led by University of Massachusetts professor emeritus Thomas Ferguson reveals that “a giant wave of dark money” flowed into Donald Trump’s campaign coffers in the last months[…]