Tag Archives: participatory economy
John Holloway on his book Crack Capitalism
John Holloway (born 1947) is a lawyer, Marxist-oriented sociologist and philosopher, whose work is closely associated with the Zapatista movement in Mexico, his home since 1991. It has also been taken up by some intellectuals associated with the piqueteros in … Continue reading
The USA’s new security partnership known as the Quad
Latin waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Jorge Marti ,secretariat of Hands of Venezuela about the USA’s new security partnership known as the Quad to include United States, India, Japan and Australia as a strategic partner and providing Australia with … Continue reading
Biden refuses to remove Trumps additional sanctions on CUBA further punishing ordinary Cubans
Latin waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Jorge Martin secretariat of Hands off Venezuela about Cuba. The UN has declared the USA’s blockade of Cuba illegal 29 times the last vote on June 23 with 182 countries voting against the … Continue reading
Social Movements in 2020, Capitalism and Covid and new president Joe Biden
Host Sylvia Richardson speaks to Jorge Marti about social movements in 2020 in both South and North America, how Neo Liberalism and decades of austerity have left powerful capitalism societies unprepared for the pandemic. His views about new President Joe … Continue reading
Robinhood Reddit and when average people gamble on the Stock Market
Latin Waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Ellen Brown about a populist revolution to Occupy Wall Street. The story of how using a game-like trading app called “Robinhood” a Reddit social media forum caused GameStop shares to rise up nearly … Continue reading
The face of imperialism in Venezuela, a new Biden administration
Sylvia Richardson host of Latin Waves, speaks with Yves Engler about the face of imperialism. President Nicolás Maduro has won a new 6-year term in the election held on December 6, 2020. The United States says it won’t recognize the … Continue reading
Democratic or Republican does not matter to Latin America
Host Sylvia Richardson has a lively discussion with Jorge Marti, secretariat of Hands off Venezuela talks about the election in Venezuela and Latin American policy despite which party rules in the US, recent uprisings in Latin American over the last … Continue reading
The implications of the new NAFTA deal
Host Sylvia speaks to Raul Burbano from Common Frontiers regarding the new NAFTA agreement being pushed by the Trump administration. How these agreements subvert democratic rule, weaken worker and environmental rights and how they are related to the mass migration … Continue reading
Universal Basic Income, Green New Deal and Public Banking
Ellen Brown has written what will become one of THE most important books of our time. She eloquently educates us on how the democratization of money is the very foundation of a free society in her book Web of debt, … Continue reading
A discussion about the Canadian election and party platforms
Tom parkin is a frequent colomist/freelance journalist on Canadian politics, he is host of Game Changers podcast. Host Stuart Richardson speaks to Tom about the current Canadian election platforms and policy of each party. We focus on the environment , … Continue reading