England is two countries. One is dominated by London, the other remains in its shadow. When I first arrived from Australia, it…

What is to be done, in the wake of Warsaw climate summit’s conclusive failure to cap emissions last weekend? The answer: walk…

1. Smiles Beverly is a middle-aged homeless woman who survives day-by-day on the streets of Chicago. I learned about her from my…

Colombia is booming, we are told. The security improvements of the last decade have opened up the country to investment, allowing it…

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Narrow it down to the real power-brokers and decision-makers—the CEO's of fossil fuel companies or the energy ministers from the largest petro-states—says…

The Left commentator Edward S Herman once (applying a phrase from the anthropologist Lisa Peattie) usefully described a key function of the…

The great corporate myth-making machine has been hard at work of late, attempting to create the false impression that US corporations are…

What makes a movement turn into a landlord? Over the past two years in Catalonia, Spain, more than 700 people have made…

In the thirty six-years I have been a lawyer, I have seen many people take brave moral actions. I have represented hundreds…