Commons

Social policies have been the major victims of neoliberal globalisation. Slowly the IMF and the World Bank adopted a more open attitude. However, the road is bumpy. In a recent report the World Bank proposes a ‘New Social Contract’. But what the World Bank is really up to?

For twenty years now, I have been marvelling at how many mass media outlets fail to inform beyond the loose sand of countless events, short news stories, petty facts, non-events, gratuitous opinions and increasingly misleading reporting, nonsense or even lies... while there has never been so much opportunity to tmake the world more understandable.