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    The Davos Class
    January 2012
    Susan George

    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.

    Eric Holt-Giménez: What's wrong with the industrial food system and the challenges facing food justice movements
    January 2012
    Eric Holt-Giménez

    In the industrial or corporate food regime, hunger is a staple commodity. Agrarian and food justice movements have come a long way in building an alternative system, but there are still many challenges.

    The Dark Side of Investment Agreements
    December 2011
    Cecilia Olivet

    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 story is that by signing investment treaties,...

    Week of Action on Investment
    December 2011
    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. 

    Critical Perspectives and Alternative Solutions to the Eurozone Crisis
    December 2011
    TNI

    2011 witnessed the implementation of some of the most comprehensive undemocratic structural changes in the EU since the Lisbon Treaty. Alternative proposals for a progressive exit from the euro crisis are laid out here.

     

     

     

    European Democracy Now!
    November 2011
    TNI

    While banks and European leaders negotiate the next public bail out of private greed, and the financial speculation that caused the crisis continues unheeded, Europeans have shown that like many people around the world, from Tahrir to Syntagma Square and Wall Street, they are not going to take...

    Occupy Wall Street: New politics and new milestones
    November 2011
    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.

    Occupy Wall Street: Origins & Prospects
    October 2011
    Tom Reifer

    The ancient discussion about the purposes of wealth and the conflict between oligarchy – rule of the rich – and democracy – the rule of the demos/the people comes to the fore once again with the Occupy protests.

    Land, conflict and the challenge of pro-poor peace-building
    October 2011
    Jennifer Franco
    Jun Borras

    There is a lot of contention over approaches to land reform policy, in terms of how to involve the state, the market and communities; but what matters most for a socio-economically and politically sustainable solution, is that the policy is genuinely 'pro-poor'.

    A Coup D'Etat in the European Union?
    October 2011
    Susan George

    European Union workers’ pretentions to better pay and working conditions, shorter working lives, munificent retirement benefits, long holidays and time off for this and that have got to be brought under control!  Enough is enough! 

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