Counterrevolution, the countryside and the middle classes: lessons from five...
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Counterrevolution, the countryside and the middle classes: lessons from five countries
Counterrevolution, the countryside and the middle classes: lessons from five...
A dangerous liaison? Harnessing Weber to illuminate the relationship of democracy and charisma in the Philippines and India
A dangerous liaison? Harnessing Weber to illuminate the relationship of democracy and charisma in the Philippines and...
Derailing Doha Trade Deal Essential to Saving Climate
There is something surreal about the ongoing World Trade Organization talks in Geneva , which aim at coming up with a...
Japan Follows Singapore in Dealing with Foreign Activists
(Sapporo, July 6, 2008) Trade, climate change, skyrocketing oil prices, and debt have been the topics of discussion in...
Will Capitalism Survive Climate Change?
There is now a solid consensus in the scientific community that if the change in global mean temperature in the 21st...
How to Manufacture a Global Food Crisis: Lessons from the Philippines, Mexico, and Africa
When tens of thousands of people staged demonstrations in Mexico last year to protest a 60 percent increase in the...
We’re at an Impasse…
Faizel Ismail is the head of the delegation to the World Trade Organization of South Africa's Permanent Mission in...
A Very Capitalist Disaster: Naomi Klein’s Take on the Neoliberal Saga
Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism is very impressive indeed. This is, however,...
The day after…
(Bali, Dec. 16). A day after the dramatic ending of the Bali climate talks, many are wondering if the result was...
Players and plays in the Bali climate drama
With 48 hrs to go before the Bali climate conference comes to a close, it is now universally expected that the COP...
The Environmental Movement in the Global South:
The developing world’s stance towards the question of the environment has often been equated with the pugnacious...