TNI in the news

TNI fellows, staff and consultants who are quoted, interviewed, featured or published in other media outlets. Please note that as many of our network also work for other organisations, we do not assume to take credit for all of these media "hits."

L a rencontre prévue le 1er octobre, à Genève, entre l'Iran et les représentants
L'Humanité Dimanche

L a rencontre prévue le 1er octobre, à Genève, entre l'Iran et les représentants du groupe des Six, composé de l'Allemagne et des membres du Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU (États-Unis, France, Russie, Chine, Grande-Bretagne) sur le nucléaire iranien apparaît comme une première étape tendue.

October 2009
Scepticism chic
HIMAL

The Indian media’s approach to climate change the result of a tendency to follow the leader.

September 2009
Public service privatisation is a fast track to corruption and higher costs
The Guardian

Public services must become the universal badge of social solidarity and citizenship they should be, not a second-class safety net for the poor.

September 2009
EU water policies in the developing world
EurActiv.com

As water shortages in developing countries become more acute due to climate change, the EU is backing policies to manage the demands of all sectors, prioritising health, sanitation and cooperation between states.

September 2009
Land Grabs - Another Scramble for Africa
AllAfrica.com

How is it possible that in the 21st century the world has the capacity to feed every single human being on the planet, yet the majority of people in Africa and the rest of the Global South go rampantly hungry?

September 2009
NeoConOpticon – new report on Europe’s ‘security research’ sector
NUJ Brussels

The NeoConOpticon report, published by the Transnational Institute (TNI) and Statewatch, is probably the most significant independent assessment of Europe’s emerging “security research” sector to date.

September 2009
Burma's Junta Intensifies Bid For Unification
The Washington Post

The maps say that the town of Mong La is located in Burma, but to the casual observer, it could be China.

September 2009
The Neoconopticon
The Telegraph

Statewatch has, in conjunction with the Transnational Institute, issued a report on the new arms race. The guns in this new arms race are pointing inwards at societies instead at outside at potential threats.

September 2009
Burma’s ethnic militias play waiting game
Financial Times

The maps say the town of Mong La is located in Burma but to the casual observer it could be China.

September 2009
Latin America breaks ranks in US war on drugs
Christian Science Monitor

Many countries in the region – most recently Mexico – have decriminalized small amounts of drugs for personal use. The moves have followed decisions by left-leaning governments to limit cooperation with the US in recent years.

September 2009
"Armeen dienen nicht mehr der Abschreckung"
Frankfurter Rundschau
Friedensforscher Jochen Hippler über den Waffen-Mix im 21. Jahrhundert und neue Anforderungen an Soldaten angesichts regionaler Konflikte.

Herr Hippler, Atomwaffenteststopp, Nicht-Weiterverbreitung von nuklearen Waffen - so viel Abrüstung war lange nicht. Dürfen wir uns freuen, oder werden moderne Armeen für den asymmetrischen Krieg umgerüstet?

Zuerst einmal darf man sich freuen. Schließlich wird die politische Eiszeit unter Bush abgelöst durch eine mindestens diskursive Politik, die auch dadurch ermöglicht wird, dass ein US-Präsident über Abrüstung spricht.

September 2009
First Person: Bomb blasts and an ‘encounter’
Hard News

It has been almost a year since police randomly picked up young Muslims from a Muslim ghetto in Delhi full of aspiring students and youngsters from small towns seeking a professional career.

September 2009
Walden Bello: Structural Adjustment Programmes dictated by the IMF and World Bank destroyed African agriculture
Allafrica

How is it possible that in the 21st century the world has the capacity to feed every single human being on the planet, yet the majority of people in Africa and the rest of the Global South go rampantly hungry?

September 2009
500 gather for summit of the people
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

With delicate enunciation and an urgent message, Anna Pinto brought sections of a scattered crowd to its feet on the first day of the People's Summit yesterday.

The daylong gathering drew about 500 people to the 20th Century Club in Oakland, among them Ms. Pinto and an international cast of activists.

September 2009
Protesters gather in Pittsburgh for People's Summit
The Globe and Mail

Liberal, progressive and socialist activists, along with community leaders, gathered in Pittsburgh Saturday for a People's Summit ahead of next week's Group of 20 world economic summit.

September 2009
Government announces green IT savings at carbon-creaking event
Click Green
Tamra Gilobertson

The UK government has announced it has slashed its IT carbon footprint...

September 2009
Argentina Legalizes Personal Marijuana Use
Narcosphere
Cites Martin Jelsma/TNI

On August 25, Argentina's Supreme Court struck down a dirty war-era law criminalizing possession of even the smallest quantities of marijuana.

September 2009
EU militarisation: TNI report reveals the emerging EU miliarty-industrial complex
The Guardian

The 10-year term of the EU's foreign policy chief has been marked by warmongering and lack of principle

Few sights and sounds can be more nauseating than those of politicians paying tribute to each other. I fear, then, that my stomach will not be able to cope this autumn when Javier Solana steps down as the European Union's foreign policy chief.

September 2009
Banking crisis: Lessons from a man-made tragedy
The Guardian
Cites Hilary Wainwright

Two global events will define this decade, and they hang on either end of it in a rough and ghastly symmetry. First came the terrorist attacks on America on 11 September 2001. The second fell on 15 September last year: the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and the climax of the international banking meltdown. The chain of events that triggered the worst financial chaos since 1929 is revealed in the investigation we are publishing this weekend.

September 2009
Feminism and Lubna Hussein
BBC Radio 4
Hilary Wainwright participates

Lubna Hussein faces forty lashes for wearing trousers. Should we be doing more?

The Sudanese journalist Lubna Hussein is facing forty lashes for wearing a pair of trousers. Her case has sparked world wide condemnation. She’s due back in court on Monday.

September 2009