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    Olivier de Schutter: What is agroecological farming? And why should it be upscaled?
    January 2012
    Olivier de Schutter

    The food crisis and the environmental crisis are two sides of one coin, so any solution to hunger and food security must also be sustainable and contribute to ecological integrity.

     

    South of the Sahara dictators tremble
    March 2011
    William Gumede

    The possible domino-effect of the Arab Spring makes African dictators tremble in their boots. What are the parallels and what are the differences? Will an African Spring take place and how will it look?

    When civil-societyism fronts for barbarism
    March 2011
    Patrick Bond

    The Gaddafis close relationship with the London School of Economics exposes yet another case of institutions selling favours to the rich and powerful.

    Secrecy, Truth, & the Struggle for Peace & Justice: Reflections on the WikiLeaks Revelations
    December 2010
    Tom Reifer

    The WikiLeaks saga demonstrates that secrecy plus power results in corruption and crime, and that an informed citizenry is essential to prevent our's from becoming a society where civil liberties are a pipe dream and torture is the norm.

    The USA: Scarecrows on the March
    November 2010
    Atilio Boron

    The U.S. public has accepted as valid and reasonable, affirmations that would have provoked incredulity or hilarity among the most backward and superstitious people in medieval Europe. The clear indication of moral and political decay eating into American Rome.

    Controlling People Through Language
    September 2010
    Boris Kagarlitsky

    Market reforms have given rise to new revisions of the language, and all personal activities are now expressed in terms of buying and selling.

    Physician, first heal thyself
    June 2010
    Praful Bidwai

    One of the greatest failures of governance in India lies in appalling poor regulation of entrepreneur activities in the public interest.

    What are the promising new models of democratic participation?
    February 2010
    Hilary Wainwright

    The institutions that are supposed to reproduce daily life are incapable of acting on behalf of the people any more, so we need to produce our own institutional alternatives based on micro-experiments and universal values.

    Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge launched
    November 2009
    Hilary Wainwright

    An international coalition has launched Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge as a response to the recent agreement of the European Commission on the “protection” of Internet access, brought under the pressure of the lobbies of the culture industry.

    Reclaim the State: Experiments in Popular Democracy (Seagull, 2009)
    October 2009
    Hilary Wainwright

    Reclaim the State sets out on a journey from Brazil to Britain to discover how people are creating new, stronger forms of democracy. The book shows that the foundations for new political directions for deepening democracy already exist, and provides imaginative and practical tools for building...

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