• Access Denied

    The reform process in Burma/Myanmar by the quasi-civilian government of President Thein Sein has raised hopes that a long overdue solution can be found to more than 60 years of devastating civil war.

  • The right to say no

    As European Union (EU) member states consider the implications of environmentally risky shale gas development (fracking), negotiations are underway for a controversial EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) which would grant investors the right to challenge governments’ decision to ban and regulate fracking.

  • Land concentration, land grabbing and people’s struggle...

    Land grabbing is widely assumed to be happening only in the global South, but an in-depth analysis by a team of researchers shows that land grabbing is also expanding into Europe.

  • Multinational Crimes: The Shell Case

    As one of Africa's leading advocates and campaigners for environmental and human rights, Nnimmo Bassey stood up and challenged corporate impunity by Shell and other oil companies in his native Nigeria.

  • Guns, debt and corruption

    High levels of military spending played a key role in the unfolding economic crisis in Europe and continues to undermine efforts to resolve it.

Articles

Colombian President Santos, OAS Chief Insulza to Present New Study on Drug Policy Alternatives

Washington, D.C.—This Friday, May 17, in Bogotá, Colombia, Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General José Miguel Insulza will present Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos with the outcomes of the hemispheric drug policy review that was mandated by the heads of state at the 2012 Summit of the Americas in Cartagena.

Military spending and the EU crisis infographic

Frank Slijper
An infographic that accompanies our report, Guns, Debt and Corruption, illustrating the role of military spending in causing and perpetuating the economic crisis.

Oscar Lafontaine’s call to return to national currencies

Trevor Evans, EuroMemo Group / Berlin School of Economics and Law
Major industrial and financial corporations are organised internationally; at the European level there is a possibility of establishing greater democratic control over their activities; a step back towards the nation state would be a move in the wrong direction.

Thatcher’s Voices in the Air

David Sogge
Keynes, convinced of the power of ideas over that of “vested interests”, famously held that “Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.” Now there’s little doubt that the social life of ideas helps explain the astonishing persistence of ‘Thatcherism’.
Interview with Phyllis Bennis

Obama Makes Nice Speeches...

Phyllis Bennis
President Obama recognizes injustice and need for two states but does nothing to pressure Netanyahu to make concessions to Palestinians.

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Publications

Political Reform in Burma/Myanmar and Consequences for Ethnic Conflict

TNI & Burma Centrum Netherlands
While there have been undeniably positive trends in Burma over the past year, these have not yet been translated into ethnic peace and justice. 

Protecting carbon to destroy forests

TNI, FDCL, Carbon Trade Watch and IGO
This paper provides historical background and reports of experiences on the ground to show how land and nature enclosures are central to REDD+, and why it therefore cannot be fixed.

Sons and Daughters of the Earth

Food First & TNI, Alberto Alonso-Fradejas
In the face of violent dispossession and incorporation into an exploitative labor regime, indigenous peasant families in northern Guatemala are struggling to access land and defend their resources as the basis of their collective identity.

Myth Busting: EU's Emissions Trading System

Since the adoption of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), emissions have risen and the price of consumer energy went up along with the profits of many industrial actors.

The EU trade and Investment Agenda: quashing the aspirations of the Arab Spring?

Roeline Knottnerus
The EU's launch of negotiations for Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements (DCFTAs) with four Arab countries in transition – Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia - looks set to entrench an economic model that was one of the root causes of the Arab Spring.

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