Articles by Tony Phillips
It happened before in Denmark, a Viking story
The lobbyists in Copenhagen are paid by organizations who don’t agree with . They sleep in five star hotels renamed “Bright Green” for the show. Quarterly results blur their vision. They don’t go to museums any more.
Naomi Klein opens Kilmaforum09 in Copenhagen, the People’s Climate summit
Naomi Klein was in fine form as she opened the Klimaforum09 counter-conference in Copenhagen Monday night 7/12. She gave a keynote opening speech to open the summit of ecological NGO?s that bills itself as The People?s Climate Summit.
Callout from Copenhagen
Hello from Denmark, Decided to come freeze my little tush off in Copenhagen for eleven days for global warming (COP-15, look it up). Sounds like fun? Well, sort of! Anyway I’m writing articles for a few people here and I […]
The Southern Bank / Banco del Sur un paso adelante
Públicados en “Americas Program” Una Nueva arquitectura finaciera para América Latina traducido por Annette RamosPartes I y II Tony PhillipsParte uno y dos de una series de dos que escribí sobre NAFR (La Nueva Arquitectura Financiera para América del Sur […]
G-20: Round Two
Americas Program Special Report G-20: Round Two Tony Phillips | April 19, 2009 Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP) americas.irc-online.org Brazil’s Lula da Silva and China’s Hu Jintao met in London at the G-20 summit. Photo: Xinhua/Lan Hongguang. In […]
Letter to the Irish Times
Madam, As a non-resident Irish citizen living in Argentina it is rare that I voice an opinion on the Irish economy. While economic policy affects my family in Dublin directly, it has little effect on me personally. However, as an […]
Privatising Profits, Socialising Losses
The rapid fallout from less than a decade of financial speculation has been mind-boggling. Barely legal, the unregulated bubble in “credit derivatives”2 grew from $1 trillion in 2003 to $15 trillion in 20073 to finally burst, leaving the global financial system on life support in the public ward.
