It has been confirmed. The controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal is designed to give corporations more power over domestic laws, including environment, labour and other safeguards. This and other revelations about the TPP came forth after Wikileaks...
This article originally appeared on The Guardian on March 9, 2015. Written by: Charles Eisenstein Geoengineering has been back in the news recently after the US National Research Council endorsed a proposal to envelop the planet in a layer of sulphate aerosols...
Recently, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged member States to recommit to “collective security” and human rights. He claimed the UN prevented another war but those who suffered from the lethal consequences of the Cold War or the current violence and loss of human...
The article originally appeared on Truthout on March 25, 2015 This week, the World Bank is convening its 16th annual “Conference on Land and Poverty,” which brings together corporations, governments and civil society groups to ostensibly discuss how...
This essay was a talk given by the author at the Economics of Happiness Conference, Portland February 27 – March 1, 2015. Written by: Bayo Akomolafe (PhD). Coordinator, International Alliance for Localization This past year, on an October afternoon, we carefully...
