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  • Colombian President Santos, OAS Chief Insulza to Present New Study on Drug Policy Alternatives

    Washington, D.C.—This Friday, May 17, in Bogotá, Colombia, Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General José Miguel Insulza will present Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos with the outcomes of the hemispheric drug policy review that was mandated by the heads of state at the 2012 Summit of the Americas in Cartagena.

  • Military spending and the EU crisis infographic
    Frank Slijper

    An infographic that accompanies our report, Guns, Debt and Corruption, illustrating the role of military spending in causing and perpetuating the economic crisis.

  • Oscar Lafontaine’s call to return to national currencies
    Trevor Evans, EuroMemo Group / Berlin School of Economics and Law

    Major industrial and financial corporations are organised internationally; at the European level there is a possibility of establishing greater democratic control over their activities; a step back towards the nation state would be a move in the wrong direction.

  • Thatcher’s Voices in the Air
    David Sogge

    Keynes, convinced of the power of ideas over that of “vested interests”, famously held that “Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.” Now there’s little doubt that the social life of ideas helps explain the astonishing persistence of ‘Thatcherism’.

  • Networking against Fracking
    Satoko Kishimoto

    Global networking is key to winning battle against fracking, say activists at WSF.

  • Declaration of the Social Movements Assembly

    As the Social Movements Assembly of the World Social Forum of Tunisia, 2013, we are gathered here to affirm the fundamental contribution of peoples of Maghreb-Mashrek (from North Africa to the Middle East), in the construction of human civilization.

  • The European Spring 2013 – A New Beginning?
    Sol Trumbo Vila

    The European Spring's Days of Action, that targeted the EU Summit and its austerity agenda, provides important lessons on how to develop alliances between trade unions, grassroots movements and civil society organisations.

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Reports

  • Profiting from injustice
    Cecilia Olivet
     Pia Eberhardt

    A small club of international law firms, arbitrators and financial speculators are fuelling an investment arbitration boom that is costing taxpayers billions of dollars and preventing legislation in the public interest.

  • Financing Dispossession
    Kevin Woods
    Tom Kramer

    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.

  • How international rules on countering the financing of terrorism impact civil society
    Ben Hayes

    Making banks and non-profits liable for the acts and social networks of their customers and beneficiaries while holding charities and CSOs responsible for the ‘extremist’ views and actions of their associates stifles freedom of association and expression and promotes self-censorship.

  • Access Denied
    TNI & Burma Centrum Netherlands

    The reform process in Burma/Myanmar by the quasi-civilian government of President Thein Sein has raised hopes that a long overdue solution can be found to more than 60 years of devastating civil war.

  • A Landmark Victory for Justice: Biowatch’s Battle with the South African State and Monsanto
    David Fig
     Rachel Wynberg

    Published by  Biowatch South Africa, this is a book about access to information, the right to know, and action in the public’s interest – a must-read for anyone campaigning for environmental or social justice.

  • The right to say no
    Cecilia Olivet
    Timothé Feodoroff
     Pia Eberhardt, Emma Lui, Stuart Trew

    As European Union (EU) member states consider the implications of environmentally risky shale gas development (fracking), negotiations are underway for a controversial EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) which would grant investors the right to challenge governments’ decision to ban and regulate fracking.

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In focus

  • Ethnic Conflict in Burma

    Whilst a twenty year ceasefire still holds, there is unlikely to be peace and democracy in Burma without a political settlement that addresses ethnic minority needs and goals. The joint Transnational Institute - Burma Center Netherlands aims to stimulate strategic thinking to address ethnic conflict in Burma and give a voice to ethnic nationality groups who have until now been ignored and isolated within the international debate on the country.

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