Justin Villamil

Sep 14, 2024 | jacobin.com | Justin Villamil

Financial institutions like to pay lip service to the climate catastrophe to burnish their public image. Doubtless, that’s what BlackRock chair Larry Fink, who oversees more money than the combined GDPs of Japan and Germany, had in mind when he declared four years ago that “climate risk is investment risk.”At the time, the announcement shocked financial observers, who tend to wait for Fink’s annual letter to CEOs as if it’s a new set of commandments.

Jul 1, 2024 | dollarsandsense.org | Austin Landis |Nick French |Justin Villamil

Is the Biden administration’s economic policy a break with neoliberal orthodoxy, or more of the same? | Order this issue or subscribe.

Jun 22, 2024 | znetwork.org | Justin Villamil

Shortly before his assassination in 1987, Burkina Faso’s president, Thomas Sankara, issued a warning. Rich nations, he said, were deftly deploying debt to control the developing world.

Jun 21, 2024 | jacobin.com | Justin Villamil

Shortly before his assassination in 1987, Burkina Faso’s president, Thomas Sankara, issued a warning. Rich nations, he said, were deftly deploying debt to control the developing world.

Mar 21, 2024 | jacobin.com | Justin Villamil

Fathi Nimer noticed the new checkpoints on the way to his farm almost immediately after October 7. The trip from Ramallah in the central West Bank in Palestine used to take Nimer just half an hour. Now he takes a circuitous route that’s more than twice as long to avoid Israeli checkpoints as he says illegal settlers are stepping up their slow colonization of Palestine.