Uneven Developments

The G8′s great land-grab

June 11, 2013

More heinous land grabbing in Africa by the G8

What Turkey reminds us about tear gas

June 6, 2013

Tear gas is an inhumane weapon of war. Its manufacturers, most of whom are based in the US, should be […]

Move over God, the biotech companies are here

June 1, 2013

Vandana Shiva on contemporary biotech as a religious discourse

Geobollocks

May 31, 2013

Karl Marx famously wrote that capitalism will turn any boundary it encounters into an opportunity for a fresh round of […]

Shell and the Arctic Oil Rush

May 30, 2013

Industrial livestock production key threat to world’s forests and biodiversity

May 24, 2013

Industrial animal farming is a disaster for the planet, for biodiversity, and for the future of humanity

African women’s organizations oppose development based on markets, resource extraction

May 12, 2013

African women challenge neoliberal development models that dominate at the World Economic Forum-Africa

Occupy Sandy and Emerging Forms of Social Organization

May 11, 2013

I recently attended a forum organized by New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge. The topic was “Occupy Sandy and […]

Death Knell

May 10, 2013

Today atmospheric CO2 levels surpassed the average daily level of 400 parts per million. Carbon dioxide concentrations have probably not […]

Divest!

May 8, 2013

The logic is elementary: If we want to avert civilization-destroying climate chaos, we need to decarbonize the economy as rapidly […]