STWR - Share The World's Resources

Noam Chomsky, the renowned US academic, author and political activist, speaks to Avi Lewis on Al Jazeera's Inside USA. They discuss whether the US election this year will bring real change, the ongoing conflict in Iraq and why Americans should look to their Southern American counterparts for political inspiration.

Add an extra zero to the ranks of the millionaires club. The number of people around the world with at least $1 million in assets passed 10 million for the first time last year, according to a new report. And their bank accounts are growing even faster.

The one-size-fits-all model of development pushed by the ongoing Doha round of WTO negotiations is against the interests of small farmers, agricultural labourers and livlihood security, writes Mritiunjoy Mohanty - and the solution is to place development back into their hands, as demonstrated by the problems of NAFTA policies in Mexico.

Crime is down, convictions are down, but the prisons are bursting. So what is the link between all the statistics?  The answer is inequality, argues George Monbiot.

The principle of nonintervention is not an ideal, but rather commonsense, writes Robert Scheer, although cutting the U.S. military budget faces great obstacles from powerful vested interests.

Oxfam gives a stark warning upon launching their 10-year manifesto for tackling global inequality, titled 'From Poverty to Power,' by Duncan Green.

Barack Obama may represent a hope for reviving American democracy, writes Zeki Ergas, but only if he challenges the overwhelming influence of big business, neoliberal globalization and the interests of American imperialism.

It's time to embrace the huge challenge of weaning society from its addiction to 'black gold', writes Dick Nichols, through unions and environmentalists taking a united stand against the Big Oil corporations.

As the power of the U.S. dollar declines, Michael Hudson proposes a radical solution to development in the Middle East - to completely break with the U.S. diplomatic sphere, and to buy out the U.S. bases under construction at fair market value.

Privatisation, free trade and market forces. . . the rich world insists poor states play by our rules. But they don't work. Is it time to let countries determine their own destinies, asks Duncan Green.