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...
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...
Every year for the last fifteen years, the World Bank has organised “The Conference on Land and Poverty,” ostensibly to discuss how to “improve land governance.” And every year, the World Bank Group has been accused of financing projects that support often brutal...
Reality, when served with the right amount of humour, becomes easy to digest. The issue of income inequality and the widening gap in America received this very special treatment from John Oliver. On Last Week Tonight’s July 13 2014 episode, John Oliver picked every...
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. Nobody outside Russia, it seems, has trouble roundly condemning Russian President...
