Indigenous Organizers Halted Plans for Oil Drilling in the Amazon
Sustained demonstrations in Ecuador got the government to back down—at least for now.
Make Corporations Pay for the Green New Deal
A Green New Deal will require trillions of dollars of investment. But the government doesn’t actually need to put up all the cash — we can make corporations pay.
Why Free Trade is Simply the Corporate Capture of International Trade
"I am all for trade. But I am not for 'free trade,' because it’s a bad idea and bad policy." - Walden Bello
The Price of Austerity in England
Savage cuts in social services have put county councils in crisis.
We Can Do Better Than Capitalism
In America today, three people control as much wealth as the bottom half of us. So, are we stuck in this deadly spiral toward ever greater concentration of economic power? No, we can do better. We know we can because some of us already are. Worldwide, one in 10 employed people works in a co-op; and 1 billion in 96 countries are members of coops.
UN Security Council Members: Preaching World Peace by Day, Peddling Lethal Weapons by Night
The world’s five largest arms exporters in 2014–18 were the United States, Russia, France, Germany and China. Together, they accounted for a hefty 75 percent of the total volume of arms exports during that period.