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HSBC: 'Green Bank' Aids Logging Giant
news
6th March, 2007
HSBC, the UK's largest bank, is helping the Malaysian logging giant Samling list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, despite HSBC's claim to be the "first green bank". more...
Milton Friedman: Architect of Neoliberalism RIP
Paul Kingsnorth
1st December, 2006
Death is rarely something to be celebrated, but I can’t say I shed a tear last week when I heard that Milton Friedman, the father of neoliberal economics, had gone to the great free market in the sky. more...
East India Company: the first multinational corporation
Nick Robins
1st November, 2006
The East India Company was the first multinational corporation - until its abuse of power caused a public backlash. Nick Robins examines its legacy to reveal how it set the corporate blueprint for today's firms to operate unchecked more...Why don't we discuss human population control?
David Nicholson-Lord
22nd September, 2006
David Nicholson-Lord explains why trying to discuss human population growth these days is like placing your head on a stand at a coconut shy more...
Economic growth - the elephant in the room?
Aidan Rankin
1st December, 2005
‘Religion is the opium of the people’ is one of Marx’s best-known aphorisms. It is memorable because it tells us so much about the manipulation of faith in the industrial era more...
Boycott Coca-Cola
Max Keiser
1st February, 2005
Boycott Coca-Cola and make money for the victims of Coca-Cola. How much can we make?more...
I’m the Reverend Billy
Bill Talen
1st December, 2004
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory… I’m the Reverend Billy more...
I’m the Reverend Billy
Bill Talen
1st October, 2004
'I can no longer sit back and allow terrorist infiltration, terrorist indoctrination, terrorist subversion, and the international terrorist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.' Commander George the Ripper Bush at Madison Square Garden more...
Globalisation use it or lose it?
George, Helena,
1st September, 2004
In the past 50 years the global economy has grown by over 500 per cent... the richest fifth of the world now earn 86 per cent of global income… the poorest fifth earn just 1.3 per cent… life expectancy in the world’s most ‘developed’ countries is 79 years… in the least ‘developed’ it is still just 42… we consume 22 million tonnes of oil every day… chop down 1 per cent of the world’s forests every year… and have killed 90 per cent of the world’s big fish. Has the time come to give up on globalisation? more...
Killa Cola
Keith Hyams
1st April, 2004
I’m sitting opposite the large Coca-Cola bottling plant next to the village of Plachimada in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Plachimada is a farming village of about 800 families, many of them tribal. The ugly factory looks rather out of place in such a beautiful setting, the Western Ghats mountains clearly visible in the distance. more...
I’m the Reverend Billy
Bill Talen
1st February, 2004
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory… I’m the Reverend BillyGeorge Bush Does Not Return to Ground Zero! more...
Seeds of Hope
Nicola Graydon
1st December, 2003
Ladakh is framed by the Karakoram mountains to the north and the Himalayas to the south. Yet even in this remote environment the forces of global consumerism are intruding. Nicola Graydon reports on the locals' inspiring defence of their culture more...
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I'm the Reverend Billy.
Bill Talen
1st November, 2003
from the pulpit: We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory… more...
An Illusion of Progress
Kirkpatrick Sale
1st July, 2003
Our sick society and stupid economics are dragging the planet to the edge of apocalypse. Earth’s survival depends on a completely new way of thinking. By Kirkpatrick Sale more...
Playing Dirty at the WTO
Mark Lynas
1st June, 2003
Locked out of some meetings. Not even invited to others. And then all the decisions are made after you’ve left. It’s all in a day’s work for ‘developing’ World delegates at the WTO. By Mark Lynasmore...
Free Trade TM
Derrick Jensen
1st June, 2003
Free trade. So benign sounding a phrase. A concept whose principles no reasonable person would challenge. Trouble is, free trade as we know it – free trade as it is pushed by those who will mass at Cancun, Mexico, in September – is far from free. Think about it. If it truly was free, would they put sanctions on those who don’t want to participate and use police to violently put down protests by those who oppose it? Free trade is really just a euphemism, like ‘peacekeeping’ or ‘forest management’, that hides a far uglier, more brutal reality. Free trade is a brand – Free Trade™, which sells a repackaged product no one in their right minds would buy if they knew what it really was. more...
World Sold
Simon Retallack
1st June, 2003
In September the World Trade Organisation will be holding its fifth ministerial conference in Cancun, Mexico. Simon Retallack explains what is at stake. more... Cancun: Why Should You Care?
Paul Kingsnorth
1st June, 2003
School dinners by McDonald’s. Corporations taking countries to court because their environmental regulations are ‘too tough’. The BBC sold to Rupert Murdoch. Paul Kingsnorth explains why we should be very worried by what is about to go on behind the closed doors of Cancun. more...
Terrorism and globalisation
Fritjof Capra
1st May, 2003
For all its obsession with international terrorism, Washington fails to see how the phenomenon is driven by its own model of globalisation – a model that is itself uniquely vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Fritjof Capra on security and sustainability more...
Cargill: size is everything
Brewster Kneen
1st April, 2003
If you want to understand why globalisation is so destructive, you need look no further than the invisible food giant Cargill. By Brewster Kneen. more...
Economics Senegal
Heiner Thiessen
1st November, 2002
You can ‘structurally adjust’ an economy in a matter of years, but it takes longer to destroy a culture. Heiner Thiessen reports from Senegal on the impact of imposing a Western cash economy on a traditional African barter societymore...
Globalisation: the dream vs the reality
Dele Oguntimoju
1st November, 2002
Globalisation sells Africans the Western dream. Immigration policies tell them they can’t have it. Where, Dele Oguntimoju asks, is the sense in that? more...
Why you can't develop a nation
Gard Binney
11th June, 2000
Gard Binney examines the need for an alternative to the dominant development paradigm of globalisation. more...
ECAs Exposed
Simon Retallack
7th June, 2000
By using taxpayers' money to back environmentally-destructive projects around the world, ECAs are lining the pockets of multinational companies at the expense of the planet. Export credit agencies, explains Simon Retallack, are the worlds largest public financiers of environmental destruction. more...Members
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