Profiting from injustice
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.
Video Documentary: Global Crises, Regional Solutions
Activists from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe argue that regional integration is the only viable response to the convergence of economic, climate, food and energy crises.
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
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
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.
Access Denied
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.
The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources
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The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources
Public lecture by Michael Klare organised by the Transnational Institute
June 9
19:00-21:00
De Brakke Grond (Tuinzaal)
Nes 45, Amsterdam
The right to say no
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.
Political Reform in Burma/Myanmar and Consequences for Ethnic Conflict
While there have been undeniably positive trends in Burma over the past year, these have not yet been translated into ethnic peace and justice.
Thatcher’s Voices in the Air
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’.
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