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“The Japanese population won’t accept it any longer”
March 2012

On March 11, it’s exactly one year ago that North-Eastern Japan was hit by a major earthquake and a tsunami with giant 15 meter waves. One of the devastating consequences was a meltdown in the Fukushima nuclear power plant – the biggest nuclear disaster in 25 years. How is the situation today?...

Financing Dispossession
February 2012
Tom Kramer
 Kevin Woods

China’s opium crop substitution programme has very little to do with providing mechanisms to decrease reliance on poppy cultivation or provide alternative livelihoods for ex-poppy growers. Financing dispossession is not development.

Drugs&Democracy - Transnational Institute
Ending Burma’s Conflict Cycle?
February 2012

Peace does not just involve the government and ethnic armed opposition groups, but involves all of Burma's citizens.

TNI-BCN Burma Policy Briefing No. 8. February 2012
The Apple Connection
February 2012
Walden Bello

iPad and iPhone are engineering masterpieces, but they also epitomise the social relations of production today where capital is free and labour is repressed.

The Politics of Climate change and the Global crisis
January 2012
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.

Praful Bidwai at the Durban Climate conference, interview with DemocracyNow!
January 2012
Praful Bidwai

Praful Bidwai talks to DemocracyNow!'s Amy Goodman in Durban during the climate conference about the state of the climate negotiations.

Durban’s greenwash outcome
January 2012
Praful Bidwai

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

 
Durban and the climate change deniers
November 2011
Praful Bidwai

The EU could play a valuable role in preventing another flawed climate deal if it neutralises the US and brings other ditherers on board while starting talks on future obligations for the emerging economies.

Japan’s role in global water: big choice ahead
August 2011
Satoko Kishimoto

Japanese water companies should avoid investing in for-profit water service ventures abroad, and should focus on non-profit, public-public partnerships instead.

As authoritarian China loses luster, TNCs flirt with democratic Indonesia and Brazil
June 2011
Walden Bello

Make way China! Here come Brazil and Indonesia as new kids on the block for transnational corporations' investments in their global search for cheap labour and social stability.

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