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  • Coca leaf: Myths and Reality
    February 2011
    Tom Blickman

    Many myths surround coca. Every day press accounts around the world use the word coca in their headlines, when they refer in fact to cocaine. TNI's Drugs and Democracy Team expose the myths and reality surrounding the coca leaf.

  • Carbon Trading
    September 2009
    Carbon Trade Watch

    A guide to why carbon trading will not work in justly tackling climate change and what alternatives might.

  • TNI and the Pinochet precedent
    August 2009

    On 21 September 1976, Transnational Institute discovered the brutal cost of fighting for economic and social justice, when Chilean secret service agents set off a car bomb in Washington DC killing TNI's director, Orlando Letelier along with Ronni Moffitt, a fundraiser for the Institute for Policy Studies. It has taken more than 30 years of struggle to bring some of those responsible to justice.

  • Foreign Military Bases and the Global Campaign to close them
    July 2009
    Wilbert van der Zeijden

    There are more than a thousand foreign military bases worldwide which have become the infrastructure for imperial wars and have severe social and environmental impacts locally that have prompted growing resistance.

  • Reforming public water services
    June 2009
    Satoko Kishimoto

    Q and As on why reforming public water services is the best way to deliver clean water to all.

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