STWR - Share The World's Resources

The global financial crisis provides a unique opportunity to change, quickly and profoundly, the way the majority thinks and feels and acts. I can see only one way out: the coming together of people, business and government in a new incarnation of the Keynesian war economy strategy, says Susan George.

As the world becomes increasingly multi-polar, U.S. influence is likely to decline not only in Latin America but in the rest of the world. This financial crisis will also see the influence of neoliberal ideas, which have their strongest base in the U.S, emerge significantly weaker, writes Mark Weisbrot.

The banking crisis has diverted attention from the billions of dollars of public money being spent to help car manufacturers go green. The greenest thing governments could do is to allow these multinationals to go under, says George Monbiot.

For the first time in half a millennium, South America is beginning to take its fate into its own hands. The problems which persist have to be addressed through regional and global solidarity along with internal struggle, writes Noam Chomsky.

With progress towards primary health care still slow three decades after the Alma-Ata declaration, an effective alliance of global and country actors is needed to set positive and realistic paths to implement the declaration’s intentions, argues Anthony Seddo.

As Africa grapples with the question of food insecurity, biotechnology buffs seem to have an answer: genetically modified crops that could feed a continent vulnerable to famine and food deficits. But environmentalists warn of new dangers. Reported by Busani Bafana.

While 9/11 changed the way we view the world, the current financial crisis has changed the way the world views us. And it will also change, in some very fundamental ways, the way the world works - what historians might deem a true global watershed: the end of one period and the beginning of another, says David Rothkopf.

The failure of development reflects a crisis in the economic theory that has driven the World Bank's policies since 1980, largely due to a set of neoliberal economists who gained influence at the Bank in the late 1970s. It is now time to go beyond the Bank's neoliberal agenda that has driven it for far too long, argues Howard Stein

Ideology, self-interest, populist politics, and sheer incompetence have left the U.S. economy on life support. As we attempt to resolve the present crisis, careful balancing is required. If decisive action is taken today, we can shorten the length of the downturn and build a durable foundation for economic health, writes Joseph Stiglitz

The new "securitization" of the NAFTA agreement is not about keeping the citizens of the United States, Canada, and Mexico safe from harm, but simply protecting the neoliberal economic model - with terrible implications for Mexican civil society, says Laura Carlsen.