Debt

The Ruins Of Neoliberalism And Militarism In Asia

July 21, 2026 Sudhanva Deshpande, BreakThrough News. Strategize! Asia, Conference, Cuba, Debt, Far Right, militarism

“All along the Sri Lankan coast, you’ll see old forts. These are the forts of the various colonial powers – the Portuguese, the Dutch, and the English. They are in ruins. There are now proposals to restore them and beautify them for tourism purposes. But actually, they should be left just as they are, ruins. Because that is the only true legacy that colonialism deserves in Sri Lanka.” Dr. Ahilan Kadirgamar, senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka made this striking statement at the “Hands Off Asia” Conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

From Brain Capture To Intellectual Sovereignty

June 26, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute or Social Research. Strategize! Colonialism, Debt, Finance and the Economy, International Monetary Fund

Two decades ago, I was in South Africa with the Malawian economist Thandika Mkandawire (1940–2020). We were talking about his generation of scholars, who came of age during the national liberation movements. We had in mind people such as the Egyptian economist Samir Amin (1931–2018), Brazilian economists Ruy Mauro Marini (1932–1997) and Vânia Bambirra (1940–2015), Pakistani political scientist Eqbal Ahmad (1934–1999), South African anthropologist Archie Mafeje (1936–2007), and Nigerian political scientist Claude Ake (1939–1996).

Emergency Loans Are Costing US Schools Millions

June 20, 2026 Michael Beyea Reagan and Jason Wozniak, Truthout. Educate! Debt, Public schools, State budgets, Wall Street

In school districts from Pennsylvania to Illinois, Kentucky to West Virginia, state and local budget delays are putting the pinch on classrooms and costing districts tens of millions of dollars in additional borrowing fees — money going straight to Wall Street. In effect, political failures like budget delays, faulty tax software programs, or just political impasses are forcing some of the poorest school districts to borrow money unnecessarily. It is a massive transfer of wealth out of our local classrooms directly to the richest banks and individuals in the nation.

Sheinbaum To Forgive Debts For Tens Of Thousands Of Small Farmers

May 13, 2026 Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch. Create! Debt, Debt Jubilee, Farmers, Food and Agriculture, Mexico

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, announced a government program that seeks to settle, in many cases, and significantly reduce, in others, the debts owed by small-scale farmers, small producers, and fishermen to the government. “Today we have the great news that many of those debts have already been paid off, just like the unpayable debts of Infonavit and Fovissste. So today we have great news for all debtors of the National Agricultural Development Finance Agency because their debts are going to be significantly reduced,” the president said during her regular daily press conference.

Mothers Are Stretching Every Dollar

May 10, 2026 Barbara Rodriguez, 19th News. Educate! Children, Debt, Economic insecurity, Mothers

Sherrah Hill, a mother of six, didn’t think a simple promise to her kids — that she would buy them ice cream with toppings to celebrate their good grades — could stress her out so much. But then she stood in one of the aisles of her local grocery store in South Florida, staring at a package of sprinkles priced at $8. “Inside, I was dying because I was like, ‘How do I tell my kids that I can’t afford to get sprinkles for their ice cream?’” Hill said. These are the realities that some mothers are facing as they grapple with the rising cost of many things in their lives, including consumer goods, food and the average price of gas.

Senegal On The Edge Of Collapse

March 27, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Educate! Debt, Economic crisis, Global South, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Neocolonialism, Senegal

Senegal entered 2026 in the grip of a growing debt crisis that seems insurmountable. After the government of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye took power in April 2024, it became clear that his predecessor, Macky Sall (who held office from 2012 to 2024), had concealed enormous liabilities – including hidden loans equivalent to 25.3 percent of GDP – from the Senegalese people and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). These liabilities expose a structural contradiction: a development model subordinated to external finance has clear limits. Senegal can no longer continue along this path.

The Next Financial Shock To Come From Trump’s War With Iran

March 27, 2026 Logan McMillen, Portside. Educate! Debt, Economic crisis, Trump Administration, United States

Let’s set the scene. The U.S. government is staring down a projected $1.9 trillion deficit for this fiscal year, with the total national debt now pushing $39 trillion. Simultaneously, the expanding war in Iran and the subsequent crisis in the Strait of Hormuz have fractured global energy supply chains, driving Brent crude to $119 a barrel and sparking a massive inflationary shock. By any standard metric of sovereign risk, a state that is rapidly accelerating its debt issuance while engaging in a war of choice that is throttling the worldwide supply of oil should be facing the possibility of having its bonds repriced.

What Detroit Can Learn From Other Cities’ Home Repair Loan Programs

March 17, 2026 KoLevin, Next City. Create! Debt, Detroit, Economic Assistance, Housing

After 10 years and just $16.7 million in repairs — a sliver of what’s needed to fix Detroit’s aging homes — a city-backed home repair loan program is shut down for an overhaul. That means one fewer option for homeowners desperate to fix leaky roofs and ancient plumbing — even as Mayor Mary Sheffield’s new administration said it plans to prioritize home repair. A revamped loan program could play a key role in helping the tens of thousands of Detroiters who live in substandard housing. Private credit is one of the few funding sources with the potential scale to meet residents’ profound needs — if city leaders move aggressively to make loans more accessible.

Ecological Accounting’s Debt-Climate Nexus

January 21, 2026 Arnie Saiki, Decolonize Accounting. Educate! climate crisis, Debt, Global South, Indigenous Activism

The IF20 Religion and Environment Working Group’s 2025 policy brief frames the debt–climate nexus as an existential constraint on low-resource countries, where debt servicing displaces public services and climate response. Building from a proposed UN-centered debt framework, this article focuses on precautionary dangers inside SDG or national accounting instruments, since swaps and valuation-based relief can become predatory when they shift territorial and resource decision-making through external monitoring and data custody.

How To Challenge Wage Garnishment For Defaulted Student Loans

January 11, 2026 Braxton Brewington, Truthout. Resist! Debt, Student Debt, Trump Administration, Wages

For the first time since the onset of COVID-19, the Trump administration is set to garnish U.S. workers’ wages for defaulted student loans. The Department of Education has announced that beginning this week it will send at least 1,000 borrowers a notice of intent to garnish wages, sending additional notices every month as it expands its efforts to forcibly collect money from millions of borrowers in default. This is a cruel, harsh policy that the Trump administration does not have to implement — and it shouldn’t.

Economists Call For The Suspension Of Sri Lanka’s Debt

December 27, 2025 Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch. Resist! climate crisis, COVID-19, Debt, Economic crisis, Extreme weather, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Sri Lanka

The Institute of Political Economy (IPE), Sri Lanka and the UK-based Debt Justice issued a joint statement demanding the International Monetary Fund (IMF) suspend Sri Lanka’s debt repayment to help it tackle its prolonged economic crisis compounded by Cyclone Ditwah. The statement, signed by over 120 well-known economists from across the world including Jayati Ghosh and Utsa Patnaik from India, Nobel-prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, and French economist Thomas Piketty, asks the IMF to prioritize the welfare of people and their development over financial obligations to external creditors.

Compound Interest Is Devouring The Federal Budget

December 19, 2025 Ellen Brown, Scheer Post. Create! Congress, Debt, Federal budget, Money, Trillion Dollar Coin

Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force in the universe.” The quote is probably apocryphal, but it reflects a mathematical truth. Interest on earlier interest grows exponentially, outrunning the linear growth of revenue and eventually consuming everything. That is where the United States now stands. The government does pay the interest on its debt every year, but it is having to pay it with borrowed money. The interest curve is rising exponentially, while the tax base is not.

America Didn’t Have A Boom This Black Friday

December 7, 2025 Sean Carleton, Counter Punch. Educate! Black Friday, Debt, Economic insecurity, Inflation

Black Friday set another record this year. Reporters treated it as proof that Americans still have strength in their wallets and that the economy has life in it. The president called it the “Trump Bump.” The headlines bragged about an eleven point eight billion dollar day and analysts lined up to praise the numbers. None of it holds up once you look at how people paid for those purchases and how much strain sits underneath those sales. A record weekend in a hollowed out economy is not a sign of confidence. It is a sign of how far people will push themselves to give their kids one normal holiday in a year that left them with nothing extra. The record spending didn’t come from rising wages or cash that families finally had on hand.

The Deficit Is Not An Economic Problem; It’s A Political Weapon

November 8, 2025 James Hardwick, Canadian Dimension. Educate! Austerity, Canada, Debt, Political Weapons

Mark Carney’s long-anticipated investment-austerity budget has finally been tabled before Parliament and it’s set to raise the deficit to $78 billion. While the details of the budget will be debated over the coming weeks, the big picture is that the prime minister delivered on his promises: expanded defence and infrastructure spending “offset” by more than $50 billion in cuts and other savings. For months Carney has been laying the groundwork for these moves, making high-profile statements about Canada’s supposed spending problem and promising to discipline government workers in order to restore fiscal sanity.

How A Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate The Federal Debt Crisis

October 31, 2025 Ellen Brown, Scheer Post. Create! Congress, Debt, Federal Reserve, Finance and the Economy, Inflation

There has been considerable discussion in recent years about reforming, modifying, or even abolishing the Federal Reserve. Proposals range from ending its independence, to integrating its functions into the U.S. Treasury Department, to dismantling it and returning monetary policy to direct congressional or Treasury oversight. The Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act (H.R. 1846 and S. 869, 119th Congress, 2025-2026), introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie in the House and Sen. Mike Lee in the Senate on March 4, 2025, calls for abolishing the Fed’s Board of Governors and regional banks within one year of enactment, liquidating Fed assets and transferring net proceeds to the Treasury.

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