Loretta’s Recent TED Talk: The Intricate Economics of Terrorism

20 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Will Another Superpower Meet Its End in Afghanistan?

Read Loretta’s new article on the Afghan conflict, as published on the Huffington Post:

“On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the US is losing the war in Afghanistan… It is paradoxical that the graveyard of one superpower should become a battlefield for the other. It is even more ironic that the US, the very nation that used the Mujahedeen and this deeply hostile country to defeat the Soviet Union, should now have fallen victim to this current ordeal…”

Read full article here!

The Taliban and the Afghan Narco-State

Berlusconi Stripped of Immunity

Listen as Loretta appears on ABC Australia to discuss the Italian constitutional court’s recent decision to strip its prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, of his immunity status.

For most of his political career Berlusconi has faced allegations or charges of corruption, bribery, false accounting, illegally financing political parties and fraud, but has always found a way out by winning appeals or through statutes of limitations.

Loretta is joined by Professor Stille, Professor of International Journalism at Columbia University, to analyze the situation and its repercussions for Italy moving forward.

Listen to the full analysis here:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2009/2712836.htm

Video: Loretta on Forum Network

Here’s a nice new video from Forum Network (http://forum-network.org/), in which Loretta exposes the dark side of the global economy (the sex trade, drug trade, counterfeiting) operating without government control in the global marketplace..

Video: Loretta and the Comité Científico Fundación IDEAS

Loretta Interviewed on Cafebabel.com: ‘UK risks decade-long recession’

Recently, Loretta sat down with Maria Cerino of Cafe Babel to talk about the world economy, her visions for the future, and her life as a rogue economist.

Read full article here: http://www.cafebabel.com/eng/article/30554/loretta-napoleoni-london-economist-capitalism.html

Loretta on BBC’s The World Today

Recently, Loretta joined Mr. Henry Chu of the LA Times on BBC’s The World Today, to discuss issues facing different economies- from Spain to China- within the context of the current global economic climate.

 

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“Democrazia Feudale”: 9-11, Lehman Brothers and the Global Economic Crisis

This week, Loretta examines the collapses of both Lehman Brothers and the Twin Towers, and how they  inform our understanding  the global economic crisis:

   ”It’s time to stop looking to the past and understand what were the causes of the global crisis… This week marks two important anniversaries: the collapse of the twin towers and that of Lehman Brothers. Rivers of ink have been spent to interpret them, but perhaps it is time to stop looking to the past to understand what were the causes. Let us try instead to analyze the present and the future. Who has gained from these tragedies? The answer is disconcerting…“ 

Originally Published in Internazionale.it.  Read full article here.

News Link: Department of Labor Releases List of Slave-Made Goods

..After receiving over 6,000 letters from Change.org members calling for the publication of a confidential report listing goods produced by child labor around the world, the Department of Labor responded by publicly releasing the list this week. Read more here:  http://humantrafficking.change.org/blog/view/department_of_labor_releases_list_of_slave-made_goods