STWR - Share The World's Resources

The era of the 'Washington consensus' is over, replaced by a new model of letting countries develop in their own way, writes Dani Rodrik.

U.S. presidential candidates need to seriously discuss the role of oil in the Iraq invasion, even if they cannot acknowledge what it really constituted - a supreme international crime, writes Noam Chomsky.

The lesson from the food and financial crises is clear - that neo-liberal market fundamentalism was always a political doctrine serving certain interests, never supported by economic theory, writes Joseph Stiglitz.

Current U.S. trade policy is far from 'free trade', but simply a one-sided protectionism that is designed to redistribute income from less educated workers to more educated workers, writes Dean Baker.

The G8 agreement on climate change, without a baseline for reductions, is effectively a not-quite-a-pledge - and rather meaningless, writes Michael McCarthy.

The problem with the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is that trade isn't really 'free', and North America - at least as portrayed in the summits - doesn't actually exist, writes Laura Carlsen.

The precedent of the United States's great depression and Japan's post-bubble collapse should haunt today's G8 summiteers, says Ann Pettifor.

Recent economic woes are raising new doubts about the benefits of globalization, reports Mark Trumbull.

Climate, oil and food crisis - it's no longer business as usual for world's leaders, writes Larry Elliott.

Twenty-eight years since the Carter Doctrine was established, the time has come to demote petroleum and stand down the troops, writes Michael T. Klare.