Economy
Corporations
Gigantic, global corporations form an ever-pervasive presence in our lives. Here, you will find out coverage of corporate power in sectors ranging from agriculture to tech. We also consider corporations in the context of the climate crisis, highlighting the fossil fuel shareholders receiving record pay outs and the mining giants continuing to extract the planet’s finite resources.
‘Our culture is vanishing’
In the Amazon rainforest, remote communities descended from enslaved African people, are taking on the palm oil production that threatens their land. Miguel Pinheiro reports.
Trapped in the state-corporate nexus
Villagers in the Indian state of Odisha are fighting a major steel plant development, in the face of intense repression – yet again. Aritra Bhattacharya reports.
The self-help myth
Political theorist Neil Vallelly on why the state keeps passing the buck to the individual.
Pyromaniac president, international pariah
Leonardo Sakamoto writes plainly about the suicidal drives and fake patriotism behind the culling of the Amazon rainforest.
The Amazon effect: sweat, surveillance and exploitation
Jeff Bezos must be stopped, writes Mark Engler.
The almighty investor
Lavinia Steinfort on the insidious 'investor protection mechanisms' stacking the odds in favour of corporations.
Watch out McDonald’s, the ‘McStrike’ is coming
Twenty-year-old McDonald’s worker Annalise Peters warns that workers plan to hold the fast food giant accountable.
From Venezuela to the US: People power
The state may still be the primary oppressor of civil society rights, but transnational corporations now have a greater impact, writes Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah.
The company they keep
Big NGOs and big corporations – Ian Brown finds they are getting a bit too close.
When did fair trade become a consumerist concept?
Tim Gee argues for fair trade’s return to the heart of the global justice movement.
Defending people’s milk in India
A vibrant network of small producers and milk co-operatives is threatened by free trade agreements and liberalized investment policies.
Corporates cashing in on mental-health diagnosis
Some of the experts who put together a popular psychiatry manual have fingers in Big Pharma pies, reports Adam McGibbon.
Introducing... The Eight Great Greenwashers
Ahead of the Rio +20 Earth Summit, Danny Chivers exposes the canny, crafty and plain deceitful claims of corporations co-opting 'sustainability'
iSlave
Electronics giant Foxconn employs over a million people in China – in conditions that drive them to despair, reports Jenny Chan.
The best influence money can buy - the 10 Worst Corporate Lobbyists
Dirty cash and dirty tricks – our rogues’ gallery of lobbyists who get governments to dance to their tune.
Globalization: An Alternative View
You don't have to see the world through the eyes of the market, says David Ransom.
