Over the next couple of months, the rhythm of /The Rules will be slowing down for a period of rest and reflection. Before we do, we'd like to look back over the past year and forward to future adventures. We're very grateful for your solidarity and support this year. Thank...

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 to "improve land governance."

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.

Poverty and inequality are creations of an unjust economy. Here, the rules are rigged to favour those who are already wealthy.

News from Brussels on July 28 and from Washington on July 29 that both the EU and US are stepping up sanctions on Russia have been met with a general “it’s about time” from the world.