The story holds that the rich nations of the OECD give generously of their wealth to the poorer nations of the global south, to help them eradicate poverty and push them up the development ladder. This story is so widely propagated by the aid industry and the governments of the...
The mortuary at Dorchester hospital is in a small, single story building, hidden away in a far corner around the...
Media reporting that heralds the success of global poverty reduction strategies making claims such as "the number of people living in extreme poverty ($1.90 per person per day) has tumbled by half in two decades" is still very much routine. However, articles like Nicholas Kristof's recent piece in the New...
When it comes to international affairs, western politicians love to celebrate their devotion to development. In her flagship speech on development as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton offered stories about US aid transforming the lives of poor people in Indonesia, Nicaragua and South Africa. France’s minister of foreign affairs recently...
The internet is exploding with conversations about the Panama Papers — the largest data dump in history of secret files about rich people hiding and hoarding money. And yet the biggest story of all is hardly getting any attention.
The human mind evolved to deal with singular threats — a lion jumping out of the bushes or a wildfire spreading through the forest. We give cognitive preference to harms that are concrete, immediate, and commonplace in our everyday lives. A consequence of this natural bias toward the individual and familiar is...
Directed by Kusha Sefat, and featuring Manuel Castells and Robert McChesney, Red Ink takes the Occupy Wall Street movement as an entry point to look at the American state apparatus. So doing, it illustrates how politics, money, and media are interwoven in the US. The film also provides a brief...
As negotiators and ministers from the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries meet in Atlanta in an effort to finalize the details of the sweeping new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), some sober analysis is warranted.
A lot of people might agree that the United Nations as a concept is a good one – it’s intended to protect human rights, seemingly uphold some sense of ‘universal’ values and strive for some kind of international cohesion. But can an organisation arguably run by the old rich, (largely)...
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10 times the encyclical on climate change didn’t shy from being outright radical
Rarely do international leader figures acknowledge the fact that capitalism with its extractive industrial model is responsible for causing the crisis of climate change, poverty and inequality. The Pope's encyclical on climate change didn't miss a change to make this this quite clear.
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