STWR - Share The World's Resources

As food and fuel prices continue to increase, writes Joseph Stiglitz, the world must look to new patterns of consumption and production.

If we want to understand where the environment is heading, writes John Feffer, then we only need look to the example of North Korea - the world's climate change canary.

A response to Peter Mandelson’s recent pro-globalisation article in the Guardian from Kamran Mofid, founder of Globalisation for the Common Good Initiative.

Guantánamo has proved a useful distraction from the secret detention camps run by the US around the world, writes George Monbiot.

The food crisis is threatening to "destroy years, if not decades, of economic progress" as "100 million people are being pushed back into absolute poverty", according to former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan.

The World Bank's response to the food crisis is a 'fire-extinguisher' approach that fails to address its root causes, argues Eurodad - namely the unregulated process of trade liberalisation, structural adjustment and stringent conditionality implemented by the World Bank and the IMF in the first place.

To speak of a second Gilded Age is now a cliche - but as it draws to a close, the real question is 'what happens next?', writes Doug Henwood in The Nation magazines special issue on the New Inequality.

Lookout, warns Naomi Klein - Barack Obama has openly declared himself as a pro-growth, pro-free trade guy who "loves" the open market.

Despite a history of colonial repression and exploitative modern-day trade deals with the EU, African civil society movements are beginning to win through.

Banks need reining in - and to be punished for their stupidity and recklessness, says The Guardian's economics editor Larry Elliott.