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Commons, Ideas, It's The World Vs. The Bank

The new shock doctrine: ‘Doing Business’ with the World Bank

May 2, 2014 by Jason 1 Comment
A yearly World Bank report encourages countries to undertake extreme deregulation.
It's The World Vs. The Bank

The Majority Report on The World Bank

April 30, 2014 by The Rules No Comments
Are you angry about this? You should be.
Artivism Lab
Artivism Lab, Ideas

Kenya: Artivists versus the state

April 29, 2014 by Alnoor No Comments
The role of a new type of activist – the ‘artivist’ – is becoming increasingly important in Kenya and beyond.
Commons, REDD, Themes

California air resources board say no to REDD

April 1, 2014 by The Rules No Comments
Please cancel the Rice Cultivation Projects Compliance Offset Protocol and all existing and proposed Compliance Offset Protocols under the Cap-and-Trade Regulation.
General

Forced Relocation of Sengwer People proves urgency of cancelling REDD

March 13, 2014 by The Rules No Comments
Nairobi – The No REDD in Africa Network (NRAN) and hundreds of international allies strongly condemn the massive evictions and forced relocation of the Sengwer People, as well as World Bank-funded REDD, a land-grabbing forest offset scam, in Kenya’s Cherangany Hills.
Ideas, Money, Themes

It’s Time to Shine a Light on the Poverty Creation Industry

February 24, 2014 by The Rules No Comments
It’s about time we called out the great myth that mass poverty just is, as if it were a natural part of some universal moral order. Such thinking is both profoundly untrue and disastrously misleading.
Ideas, Money

‘Free trade’ and the death of democracy

February 21, 2014 by Jason No Comments
“Free trade”. The term itself is a trap — a brilliant framing device that neatly neutralises opposition. If you take a stand against free trade you appear to be taking a stand against freedom itself, which is clearly not a tenable position. In fact, in recent decades the term “free...
Globalization - what does it mean?
Money

Aid in reverse: how poor countries develop rich ones

February 18, 2014 by Jason No Comments
The narrative that poverty rates are declining and that extreme poverty will soon be eradicated has a tremendous amount of institutional backing; it is supported by the world’s most powerful governments and promoted through the United Nations Millennium Campaign. But this narrative is misleading: poverty is not disappearing as quickly...
Money, Themes

The madness of capital

February 17, 2014 by Jason No Comments
Last month the Associated Press reported that the income gap in the United States broke a new record in 2012, with the 1% grabbing a greater share of total household wealth than ever before in history. This news follows on the heels of the fact that the 1% not only...
General

It’s time for a global minimum wage

February 12, 2014 by Jason No Comments
Last April, 1 127 workers were killed when Rana Plaza, a garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh, collapsed. To put this in perspective, that’s more than twice the number of Americans that have been killed in mass shootings since 1983. This unfathomable tragedy reached us around the world in the form...
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