Europe is leading the world in cutting carbon emissions. By 2020, the European Union had reduced emissions by an estimated 34 percent compared to 1990 levels, which puts its promised 55 percent reduction by 2030 safely within reach. By (...)
In the face of extractive industries’ enormous economic clout, Central Americans are facing increasing displacement and threats to their democratic rights. Free trade agreements and other neoliberal economic rules grant excessive privileges to (...)
The Great Recession could have killed globalization, but China emerged as the champion of a new global “connectivity.” With the coronavirus, that phase is finished. The Covid 19 pandemic is the second major crisis of globalization in a decade. (...)
Despite well documented abuses in the kingdom, the spigot of aid and arms from the U.S. and U.K. remains open. It’s been nine years since Bahrain’s February 2011 uprising. Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in cities and towns across the (...)
Rich countries embraced trade multilateralism when it suited them, and now they’re abandoning it. That may not be such a bad thing. The World Trade Organization (WTO) is on its last legs now that the Trump administration has blocked the (...)
One telling example was the recent Chinese government-sponsored ‘top Chinese enterprises in Africa’ competition, won by China Road and Bridge Corporation [CRBC]. The aim of the award was officially stated as being ‘to commend the contributions by (...)
In response to the March 26 sinking of the South Korean ship, the Cheonan, allegedly by a North Korean submarine, the United States is poised to adopt even more stringent sanctions against North Korea. Robert Einhorn, the U.S. State Department’s (...)
With their 1994 battle cry, “Ya basta !” (« Enough already ! ») Mexico’s Zapatista uprising became the spearhead of two convergent movements : Mexico’s movement for indigenous rights and the international movement against corporate globalization. (...)
« Even now, I can’t find the words to explain the kinds of horrors that are happening », wrote Nurjan Tulegabylova with El Agartuu, a women’s organization based in Kyrgyzstan. « There are burned houses, but the worst is that corpses of people are (...)
The world’s attention has been riveted in 2008 by election crises in Africa, first Kenya, and now Zimbabwe. In both cases, challenges remain in converting electoral victory to political power. Can a victorious opposition come to power in the face (...)