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The best climate change speech you’ll ever read

March 18, 2015 by Martin Kirk 10 Comments
John Ashton was the UK Government lead negotiator in global climate talks for six years. He just gave this speech to an energy industry conference in Paris. He addressed it to Ben van Beurden, CEO of Shell, urging him and his industry to heed the global crisis of climate change.
4 reasons to question poverty eradication story
Commons, Debunking The Gates Foundation Narrative Project, Do we Live on a One Party Planet?, Featured, Ideas, Money, Power, Secrets

4 reasons to question the official ‘poverty eradication’ story of 2015

March 16, 2015 by Martin Kirk 2 Comments
The UN is currently coordinating a grand manoeuver of immense complexity. In order to agree to a new generation of global development outcomes called the Sustainable Development Goals. Unfortunately, even a cursory understanding of the data shows it is little more than hype, designed to rally public support behind a...
Inequality 300 richest have as much as 3 billion poorest
Commons, Featured, Global Economic Inequality Video, Ideas, Money, Power

3 ways humans create poverty

March 12, 2015 by The Rules 19 Comments
This is a big year for anyone interested in, or caught in the teeth of, poverty and extreme inequity. It’s the year of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to be agreed by heads of state in New York in September. Right now, tens of thousands of people—from NGOs, to...
Development doesn't work
Global Economic Inequality Video, Ideas, Money

The death of international development

March 11, 2015 by Jason Hickel 9 Comments
‘Development’ has failed to deliver. The reason, Jason Hickel argues, is that development organisations have failed to address the structural drivers of poverty
TTIP leak
Featured, Money, Secrets

TTIP leak: What’s in this 103-page document that they don’t want us to see?

February 27, 2015 by The Rules No Comments
A 103-page document with details of the TTIP negotiation has been leaked to the BBC. According to the BBC the document includes a list of things the EU wants to exclude from the deal.
Commons, It's The World Vs. The Bank, Money, Power, Themes

The World Bank’s sham conference on land and poverty

February 18, 2015 by The Rules No Comments
The big question is whose interests the World Bank really serves. While they spend considerable time and money painting themselves as champions of the poor, the Bank has a battery of practices and policies that suggest a very different truth.
One Party Planet - the system ruled by neoliberalism
Do we Live on a One Party Planet?, Money, Power, Secrets

Syriza party will ‘never ratify’ TTIP

February 6, 2015 by Swati No Comments
The Syriza party has said that it will ‘never ratify’ the TTIP deal. This will be their ‘gift to all European people’. Georgios Katrougkalos, the new deputy minister for administrative reforms, has confirmed that the party stands by the anti-TTIP stance it had even before it came to power.
Featured, Ideas, Money, Themes

Will you Sign my Petition to ban Online Petitions?

January 7, 2015 by James North 9 Comments
Most of you reading this have probably received numerous emails asking you to sign petitions on various causes over the years, some of them will have even come from us at /The Rules. If you are anything like me the vast majority of them will remain unread, and the cumulative...
Inequality 300 richest have as much as 3 billion poorest
Featured, Money

Eight facts that tell us that global economic inequality cannot be ignored anymore

December 22, 2014 by The Rules 2 Comments
Inequality is not just real, it is a rampant and at the root of what is wrong with our world today. Figures of inequality presented by organisations like Oxfam and Credit Suisse give us sufficient proof that we have a problem as big than the wealth gap.
Neoloiberal ideology rules the world
Do we Live on a One Party Planet?, Featured, Ideas, Money, Power

How Corporate Power Has Achieved A Silent Coup At A Global Scale

December 3, 2014 by James North No Comments
Who rules the world? It’s a very important question for anyone who wants to change the status quo. A new pamphlet released today argues that we live on a One Party Planet, namely that one overarching ideology – Neoliberalism, Freemarket Economics, call it what you will – has taken control...
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The REAL Story of Wealth Creation

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What would you do with 2 trillion dollars?

What would you do with 2 trillion dollars?

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3 ways humans create poverty

3 ways humans create poverty

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The Illusion of Legitimacy: The predatory borrower and inequality

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4 things you probably know about poverty that Bill and Melinda Gates don’t

4 things you probably know about poverty that Bill and Melinda Gates don’t

February 4, 2015

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