Reckoning with a colonial past

Is money a tool of moral decay or a force for human liberation? Dante feared money would corrupt and damn us, placing bankers in the eighth circle of hell - just one above Lucifer. James Joyce saw it as a tool of freedom, and markets and trade as vital engines of connection and s ...  عرض المزيد

What did Jesus really think about money? When he overturned the tables of the money changers in the Temple in Jerusalem, accusing them of turning a sacred "house of prayer" into a "den of robbers", he also set off a series of events that would eventually lead to his death. But wh ...  عرض المزيد

A coal company from Alabama. Two murdered union leaders in Colombia. A civil war. And a new way of looking at environmental crime. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

US chipmaker Qualcomm wants to build a stake in Arm alongside rivals, and how does commodities trader Glencore rescue its reputation after pleading guilty to multiple counts of bribery and market manipulation? Plus, Federica Cocco explains whether businesses are sticking to th ...

Passy and Maurice from Friends of the Congo join Breht to discuss the history and the present of the Congo. Together, they discuss their organization, Passy's on-the-ground organizing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the history of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba a ...

Grief about the deaths of more than 150 people in a crush has turned to anger, and the investigation into what actions were taken—or not taken—<a href="https://www.economist.com/asia/2022/11/03/when-a-disaster-shakes-a-country-political-leaders-face-peril?utm_campaign=a.io&utm ...