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You can’t formulate a sensible international economic policy without the basics: helicopters, snipers, riot police, attack dogs, tanks and miles of chain…
What relation does the price of an item have to its actual worth — an especially pertinent question in the middle of…
[The following is an excerpt from Raj Patel’s new book, The Value of Nothing (Picador, 2010).] If war is God’s way of…
More than a billion people eat fewer than 1,900 calories per day. The majority of them work in agriculture, about 60 percent…
Modern capitalism’s powerful spell means we cannot accept research into world food policy without turning it into an attack on the overweight.…
Food riots in Haiti caused the deaths of five people last week, including a UN peacekeeper, and forced the country’s prime minister…
Democracy is powerful stuff. Its weapons – dissent, voice, inclusion, occupation – are what distinguish it from the feather dusters of ‘participation’…
I – An Environmental Looking Glass The world’s environmentalists are bracing themselves for the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg…
By now we are extremely familiar with the sigh of world leaders trying to turn the spotlight away from their domestic inadequacies…