After eight years of investigation into allegations of corruption, BAE Systems has reached settlements with UK and US regulators totalling almost US$500 million. Is this outcome an encouraging move towards corporate accountability, or an affront to justice?
Building a new economy requires a radical rethink of the education system. Not only must future graduates be prepared to serve institutions that support ecological balance, shared prosperity, and living democracy, they must also be enabled to create them. By David Korten.
La Via Campesina is the leading transnational movement opposing the corporate domination of food production. How has such a movement arisen and how has the notion of food sovereignty forged a shared identity among its members? By Maria Elena Martinez-Torres and Peter M. Rosset.
Since colonial times, commercial and political interests have profited from the DRC’s mineral resources with devastating consequences for its people and environment. Is the government's new ‘deal of the century’ with China a continuation of the same pattern? By Khadija Sharife.
The financial crisis has created a newfound
recognition that global problems cannot be solved by nation-states acting alone
or solely on the basis of self-interest. Governments and non-state actors must cooperate
to address shared concerns and collective threats, writes David Held.
Building local resilience in the face of climate change and
peak oil requires radical changes to individual lifestyles and the global
economy. Does the Transition movement offer a way forward for communities to
meet these overwhelming challenges? By Frankie Colmane.
Blaming
underdevelopment in Africa on climate, geology and natural resources ignores
the structural causes of inequality in the global economic system. Development
technocrats should address poverty as a problem of power, not a problem of
nature, says Jason Hickel.
For the first time in forty years, some of the most powerful business leaders and politicians at the World Economic Forum are questioning the value of globalisation. But will this change in rhetoric lead to a more credible vision of human progress?
Thanks to the currently widespread disillusionment with market fundamentalism, the commons paradigm is being adopted by many differing social movements and schools of thought. Promoting this shared idea could build a diverse and coherent movement for change, writes Silke Helfrich.
A growing body of evidence indicates social and economic inequality as the real driving force behind many environmental problems, including global warming. For its true causes to be addressed, climate change must be redefined as a social justice issue, argues Bob Hughes.
