Articles

The crimes of large corporations

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January 2013

Brid Brennan on the impunity of transnational corporations.

Zero Dark Thirty & the Question of Torture

January 2013

It is high time Americans recognize that: “If torture is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”

Dirty Money: The Finance and Fossil Fuel Web

January 2013

Banks and Oil not only make up the most wealthy corporations, they sit on each other's boards and their executives include some of the world's most powerful political and social institutions. An insight into one dimension of the 'Davos class.'

Global 0.001%

January 2013

Just 11 million people, or 0.15%, control $42 trillion dollars or two thirds of world GDP. An even tinier group of people, 0.001%, control a third of that amount. Where are they based? What could this money pay for? How much wealth does that leave for the rest of us?

Planet Earth: A corporate world

January 2013

Which are the biggest companies in the world? Which corporations control them? How does their power compare with states?

International Call Cumbre de los Pueblos 2013

January 2013

Between the 26th and 28th of January 2013, the CELAC Summit (EU-LAC) will be held in Santiago, Chile. A Peoples Summit will be held in parallel from 25-27th of January.

Infographics expose the Davos class: their wealth, their connections and their interests

January 2013

TNI launches insightful infographics at start of World Economic Forum that unveil shocking reality and dangers of concentrated corporate power.

Corporate power and crisis

January 2013

Susan George provides an introduction to TNI's State of Power 2013 report, exposing how the unprecedented concentration of corporate and elite power is at the root of our economic and ecological crisis.

Cumbre de los Pueblos Chile 2013

January 2013

The People’s Summit held in Santiago Chile focused on the themes of Social Justice, International Solidarity and the Defense of the Commons. The Summit was organised in parallel to the EU-Latin America (CELAC) official summit where bi-regional investment dominated the agenda.

Will Chuck Hagel's Appointment Actually Help the Anti-War Left?

January 2013

Hagel’s nomination engendered bitter, angry opposition from the moment it was floated as a trial balloon. And the fact that Obama went ahead with the nomination is a good indication that on at least some critical foreign policy issues, Obama is not prepared to allow either the pro-Israeli lobbies or the hard-core neoconservatives, in and outside of Washington, to determine whom he could and could not choose as Secretary of Defense.