Who Really Controls the News? The Hidden Power Behind the Headlines
In this episode of EQUALS, Crismar Lujano, reflects on how media ownership and global powers shapes which stories are told about Latin Ameri...
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“Austerity Is Not an Option!” — Isabel Ortiz on fighting back against IMF imposed spending cuts and price rises for food.
This week Finance Ministers from across the world will attend the IMF–World Bank meetings in Bangkok, Thailand, and Kristalina Georgieva, th...
Fighting Fascism, The Rise of Far Right, and the Battle of Cable Street
The rise of the far right, and of fascism is all around us, all over the world. It is vitally important now more than ever to learn from his...
Is Neoliberalism Dead? with Branko Milanović
We are back! EQUALS Season 9 is officially here. And we’re starting with a massive question: Is neoliberalism dead? To answer it, we are thr...
The Global Justice Blueprint: A Roadmap to Equality, Shared Prosperity and Climate Justice
Following our conversation with Olivier De Schutter on A Roadmap to End Poverty Beyond Growth , this episode concludes our two-part series e...
Beyond Growth: Can We End Poverty Without GDP?
For decades, governments have measured success with GDP growth. But even with years of economic expansion, poverty persists, inequality is g...
The Fight for First Nations Justice in Australia: how inequality and indigenous rights are intertwined
For many Indigenous communities, inequality is not simply about income or opportunity. It is about power, representation and land. In this e...
The Privatization of Education and Plunder of Common Goods
What happens when basic public goods become a private, paid for service, education becomes a profit-turning treadmill and meanwhile millions...
Muskism: How Big Tech Is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Democracy
This week on EQUALS , we explore “Muskism” — the growing power of tech billionaires and what it means for democracy, inequality, and the fut...
War, Oil, and Inequality: Who Wins and Who Loses
In this episode, Adam Hanieh explains why crises like war, financial shocks, and pandemics don’t stay where they start. They move through th...
The Inequality Emergency: The Case for an International Panel on Inequality
In this episode, we move beyond measuring inequality to examine how it is lived and experienced by people who are affected by it and why tha...
The Making of the International Panel on Inequality
From rising billionaire wealth to dying public services, the gap between who has and who doesn’t is widening almost everywhere. Costs are cl...
Is Norway Really Equal? The Truth About Wealth Inequality
Norway is often seen as one of the most equal countries in the world. But is it really? In this episode Trine Østereng unpacks the reality b...
Capitalism vs Socialism: What’s Better for Women’s Rights?
Why do women’s rights advance in some societies — and decline in others? In this episode, historian and gender scholar Kristen Ghodsee expla...
Beyond the Political Noise: How Migrants Are Used as Scapegoats for the Real Crisis
Is the immigration debate really about borders — or is it a political smokescreen? In this episode, we unpack how migrants are often turned...
Who Pays When Countries Fall into Debt?
When countries fall into debt, who actually pays the price? In this episode, we talk to Matthew Martin, a passionate advocate for debt relie...
Resisting the Rule of Repression
Most activists don’t wilfully choose a life of protest. But sometimes, we are left with no other option. In this episode we speak with three...
Gary Stevenson on Wealth Inequality and Falling Living Standards
“What you have here is a long-term systemic transfer of wealth away from middle classes, away from rich governments and towards a small supe...
The Great Global Wealth Transfer — Thomas Piketty on Inequality
Did you know that governments in Europe are able to spend 40 times more per child on education than governments in Sub-Saharan Africa? In th...
Health Apartheid | Private Profit vs Public Health — How South Africa Is Fighting Back
What happens when healthcare becomes a financial asset? In this episode, Anna Marriott and Dr. Aquina Thulare break down the dangers of heal...