International Monetary Fund

Riots Erupt in Greece Over Austerity

Flames spread around Athens as demonstrators protested a vote in parliament on an austerity measures, which have been ordered upon the country in exchange for €130 billion from the International Monetary Fund and other European countries. The New York Times reports that demonstrators were throwing ... More >>

More Fast Food, More Fat People: Study

​Time for more health research that basically states the obvious. In a study published in December's Critical Public Health, officials looked at the International Monetary Fund's listing of the 26 richest countries to track the relationship between eating habits and weight. Then, using Subway ... More >>

Man on a Mission

Ghost Protocol lets Tom Cruise, the Bankable Movie Star, live another day

Man on a Mission

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Accuser Gets New York Times Profile to Stress Her Simplicity

​The New York Times traveled to Guinea, West Africa, to profile the woman who on May 14 accused then-head of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn of groping her, attempting to rape her and forcing her to perform oral sex in his hotel room. Much was made about the victim's ide ... More >>

I.M.F. Victim of "Large and Sophisticated" Hacking Attack

​The International Monetary Fund, once headed by new TriBeCa resident and alleged sex offender Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has been hit by a cyber attack that an official called a "very major breach." Anonymous, is this you? The attack occurred over the last few months, but as of yet it's unclear ... More >>

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Moving to Undisclosed New Location

​Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former managing director of the IMF accused of the sexual assault of a housekeeper at the Sofitel New York, is reportedly moving from the temporary apartment building at 71 Broadway where he'd been staying since he was released from Rikers on Friday. While Justice ... More >>

Rapture Was a Bust; Mitch Daniels Won't Run For President; Who Will Replace DSK?

​So, we all made it! No Rapture. Despite having assets of over $104 million, Harold Camping's Family Radio didn't quite get it right. How are Rapture believers dealing with it? Reuters talked to a man, Robert Fitzpatrick, who spent $140,000 of his life savings getting the word out about the Raptur ... More >>

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Resigns From IMF Amid Rape Allegations; Kristin Davis Says He Hired Prostitutes

​The Frenchman quit on Wednesday as managing director of the International Monetary Fund, three days after a hotel maid in Manhattan accused him of sexual assault. "It is with infinite sadness that I feel compelled today to present to the Executive Board my resignation from my post of managing ... More >>

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Gets 'No Sympathy' From Bloomberg, Digs Smiley Face Emoticons

​The French are concerned about images of the jailed IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, accused of rape, in NYPD handcuffs, because pictures that depict a suspect detained work counter to justice, according to French law. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has little worry about that -- or concern for jus ... More >>

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Accuser Gets Media Lashing: Name, HIV, Attractiveness and More

​The cover of this morning's New York Post (right) includes the headline "Hotel Maid in HIV Shock," in reference to the woman who accused IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn of an attempted rape in Manhattan last weekend. The article was the American media's ugliest foray into icky case so far, on ... More >>

Ann Coulter Tweets Dominique Strauss-Kahn Rape 'Joke' About Jews, Muslims

​Outrage at Ann Coulter is passe -- she's offended every group there is -- but the above message sent this afternoon to her 42,000 Twitter followers, about the alleged rape attempt committed by IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn against a Muslim hotel staffer, is somewhat inspired, at least in ... More >>

Dominique Strauss-Kahn In Handcuffs Is Not Okay, But Revealing Rape Accuser's Name Is?

​Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the IMF, is currently in a Rikers Island cell awaiting his next court date after being accused of rape by a 32-year-old maid in the Sofitel hotel near Times Square, where Strauss-Kahn was staying last weekend. Since the dramatic arrest, the media whirlwind has ... More >>

IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn Arrested For Sexual Assault in New York

​Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund and the expected Socialist Party candidate in France's next presidential elections, was removed from an Air France flight at JFK last night and  arrested "on charges of criminal sexual act, attempted rape, and an unlawful im ... More >>

Looking Back: The Voice on 9/11

​The September 11, 2001 issue of the Village Voice was delayed so that some relevant material could be inserted. Alisa Solomon, who had spent much of the previous month in Israel, where terror bombings were more common, gave a firsthand report on the World Trade Center attacks. She had been do ... More >>

G-20 Pumps $1 Trillion in Play Money, Gold and Whatnot into Lousy World Economy

As rioters remonstrate with the police, the world leaders at the G-20 Summit (which was originally a cozy gathering of six world leaders, but like many all-star events has swollen in recent years) convenes in London. They apparently won't touch the recent Chinese proposal for a new world currency st ... More >>

Indiana Jones and the Lost Billions, starring Bernie Madoff as the Grinch

Release the news hounds!

Daily Flog: California, here we go; crisis also sweeps through Asia

The Dogs of War

Ream America: World's police take heat for various woes in Latin American film festival

Morning Report 5/10/05
Neocons Fight Back

Wolfowitz Leaves Pentagon Without Causing Further Casualties

Globalize Me: Doc Makers Cry for Argentina, Punk the WTO

Love Actually

Multitude's kooky, brilliant model for global democracy

Arousing the Protesters

Special Cuffing Prevents Hanky-Panky

Dollars and Nonsense

It's the Post-War Economy, Stupid!

Fighting the Great 8

New York Activists Stage Wednesday Protest of Canadian Summit

The Great Gadfly

Letters

Checking in for Waldorf Hysteria

Free Traders and Fair Traders in Stalemate as CEOs Converge on New York

The Perils of Protest

The Anti-Globalization Movement Alters Its Strategy

An Uncivil War

Anarchists and Cops Square Off in Washington’s IMF Slugfest

A Summit of Their Own

Youth Demand Action Outside the World Conference Against Racism

First Tear Gas, Now Bullets

Activists Weigh the Cost of Confrontation

Journey Through Debtor’s Prison

Stephanie Black Chronicles Jamaica’s IMF Woes

Island Captive

Global Harming

Prague

'Pecked to Death by a Duck'

Hacktivists Chat up the World Bank

The Promise of Prague

Bankers, Bono, and Bomb Throwers Battle It Out on the Streets of the Czech Republic

Act Up! Here’s How

A Selected List of Organizations

Extreme Costume Ball

A New Protest Movement Hits the Streets in Style

It Takes a Global Village

From Africa to Australia to America, Activists Raise a Ruckus Around the World

Going After Globalization

Feminists Trade Strategies for a Woman-Friendly World Economy

Portrait of a Protest

Taking globalization personally: Nine New Yorkers say what moved them to march on the IMF

Nation

Seattle : The Sequel

Activists Prep for a D.C. Showdown With the IMF and the World Bank

Pat Jumps

Third Party Lock & Load

Balkans Beachhead

'Global Loan Sharks' Will Make A Killing On Kosovo Reconstruction

Anti-Rebel Yell

Wingers nail Veep