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    State of Corporate Power 2012

    Who are the global 1%? What companies do they run? How do they escape accountability? Check out TNI's powerful infographic displays that expose the social and environmental costs of global corporate power.

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  • The Davos Class

    The Davos class run our major institutions, know exactly what they want, and are well organized, but they have weaknesses too. For they are wedded to an ideology that isn't working and they have virtually no ideas nor imagination to resolve this...

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  • RIO+20 and the greenwashing of the global economy

    Challenging the corporate co-option of the UN should be a major priority in the run-up to the UN Rio+20 Earth Summit in June 2012.

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  • Globalising Hunger

    The publication analyses the impacts of the scramble for the cheapest raw materials, the exports of cereals, dairy and poultry products, as well as the effects of the growing demand for animal feed, by far the most important agricultural...

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  • The Dark Side of Investment Agreements

    Signing international investment treaties, in the hope of attracting foreign investments, has been a central strategy for governments looking to improve economic development. The less known side of this...

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  • The War on Colombia’s Poor
    Ross Eventon

    The EU's proposed free trade agreement with Colombia will worsen the already serious human rights violations in the country, as its drive to access to cheap raw materials for European corporations means forcing local people off their land.

  • Resistance and hope at a time of climate emergency
    Nick Buxton

    The Durban climate conference could act as a turning point. Are we willing to be truly honest about the failure of our political and economic system to tackle climate change and willing to exercise our power in shaping the world we want to live in?

  • Durban's Climate Zombie tripped
    Patrick Bond

    Looking back now that the dust has settled, South Africa’s COP17 presidency appears disastrous. This was confirmed not only by Durban’s delayed, diplomatically-decrepit denouement, but by plummeting carbon markets in the days immediately following the conference’s ignoble end.

  • Durban’s greenwash outcome
    Praful Bidwai

    The outcome of Durban is a disaster for global climate protection and the survival of millions. 

     
  • Week of Action on Investment
    Cecilia Olivet

    In November 2011, Brussels was the stage for a 'Week of Action' which looked to expose the threat of Bilateral Investment Treaties to democratic governance and public interest and to advocate for an Alternative Investment Regime. 

  • Huge Cost of Tax Evasion Revealed as Campaign to Tackle Tax Havens Launches

    New research published by the Tax Justice Network shows that tax evasion costs 145 countries, representing over 98% of world GDP, more than US$3.1 trillion annually.

  • Occupy Wall Street: New politics and new milestones
    Phyllis Bennis

    The occupy movement has achieved an incredible and much-needed shake-up of a long-standing political stasis in the US and elsewhere, but it is crucial now to highlight the connection between failed foreign policy, bloated military spending and illegal wars, and the economic crisis at home.

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  • State of Corporate Power 2012
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    TNI

    Who are the global 1%? What companies do they run? How do they escape accountability? Check out TNI's powerful infographic displays that expose the social and environmental costs of global corporate power.

  • The politics of climate change and the global crisis
    Praful Bidwai

    In his book Bidwai addresses the impacts of climate change and the politics of the international climate negotiations; and second, lndia as an example of an 'emerging economy' major polluter, which can potentially both aid or obstruct the fight against climate change.

  • Globalising Hunger
    Thomas Fritz

    The publication analyses the impacts of the scramble for the cheapest raw materials, the exports of cereals, dairy and poultry products, as well as the effects of the growing demand for animal feed, by far the most important agricultural commodity imported into the European Union.

  • Global Land Grabbing and Trajectories of Agrarian Change: A Preliminary Analysis
    Jennifer Franco
    Jun Borras

    The politics of change in land use and in property relations linked to cases of land grabbing are not well understood, and yet are crucial to a deeper understanding of the phenomenon; this paper explores these topics, providing a preliminary analysis.

  • Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean in broader international perspectives
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    Jun Borras
    Jennifer Franco
     Cristobal Kay, Max Spoor

    A critical re-assessment of a UN FAO study on land grabbing finds that a too-narrow definition has obscured evidence of land grabbing on a wider geographical scale than previously thought; this research includes new evidence of cases in Latin America and the Caribbean.

  • The Green Economy: the Wolf in Sheep’s clothing
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    Edgardo Lander

    The fundamental flaw at the heart of UNEP's report "Towards a Green Economy" is its failure to analyse the extraordinarily unequal power relations that exist in today’s world, and the interests at play in the operation of this global economic system.

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  • EU Economic Governance: Which Ways Forward?

    Transnational Institute, Corporate Europe Observatory and European Attac Network invite you to a public debate with a representative of the ECFIN: Economic Governance for People or for the Banks?