Articles

Activities 2012 Water Justice

August 2013

TNI plays an important role in supporting coalitions resisting water privatisation across the globe.

Debating Economic Governance with the European Commission

August 2013

On 26 June 2013, TNI and Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) hosted a public debate in Brussels about economic governance in Europe with the title Competitiveness vs. democracy?

Democracy in danger: the rise of illegitimate authority

August 2013

Transnational corporations have an unbalanced influence on global and domestic politics, and are dangerous to democracy. Ignore them at your own peril.

The Syrian Civil War, Chemical Weapons, & the Rush to Regional and Global Disaster

August 2013

The US, Saudis and Qatar who seek to take sides in fuelling sectarianism and violence in the Middle East, should remember how a similar discourse of preventative war and promotion of sectarian forces in Europe led to World War I.

 

Syria crisis demands tough diplomacy

August 2013
David Wildman

The threat of a reckless, dangerous, and illegal US or US-led assault on Syria is looking closer than ever. However any attack will not protect civilians—it will mean taking sides once again in a bloody, complicated civil war.

Newsletter 21 August 2013

August 2013

Our highlights of the past weeks

Marikana Massacre Anniversary - Time to end Corporate Impunity and State complicity!

August 2013

On the one-year anniversary of the massacre of 34 striking workers at the Lonmin plc Marikana mine in South Africa, the members of the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity, of which TNI is part, express their ongoing solidarity with the Lonmin plc mineworkers, their families and the entire Marikana community.

Egyptian revolution turns sour

August 2013

"Egypt today remains horrifically divided, with today's bloodbath certain to make things worse"

Land & Sovereignty in the Americas: Bob St. Peter, Maine

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August 2013

Bob St. Peter, a landless farmer and the head of Food for Maine’s Future, knows first hand the struggles of family farms in America today.

Land & Sovereignty in the Americas: Sergio Sauer, Brazil

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August 2013

Sergio Sauer talks of history of land struggles in his native country and the dualistic roles his government plays to both restrict and expand land grab patterns in and out of Brazil.