STWR - Share The World's Resources

The claims that a bailout of Wall Street would mark unprecendented "American Socialism" are unfounded. Rather, the $700 billion in banking subsidies rejected by the US Congress are as American as apple pie and obesity, argues George Monbiot.

Contemporary marketing tactics have all but obliterated the boundaries between advertising and editorial content, and raise the twin specters of manipulation and invasion of privacy, argue Jeff Chester and Katbryn Montgomery.

U.S. taxpayers shell out 20 billion dollars a year to pad business chiefs' earnings and to prop up the world's most lopsided corporate pay scales, say activists seeking to highlight inequality in this election year. By Abid Aslam.

The push for more trade to solve the food price crisis is actually aimed at bringing more profits for a handful of multinational corporations rather than providing food to hungry millions, says Devinder Sharma.

Huge areas of the Amazon rainforest are being cut down to satisfy global demand for soya. But how did this crop and a handful of others come to dominate our diet so completely? In an extract from her new book, Felicity Lawrence investigates the faceless trading giants who really decide what goes on our plates, writes Felicity Lawrence.

PM Gordon Brown may be passionate about reducing poverty, but he remains unwilling to address the real problem of 'business as usual'.