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How the war on piracy became big business

Is a private security boom really the route to safer seas? asks Hazel Healy.

1 Sep 2013 7 minute read

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Seafarers in the firing line

Shipwrecks and piracy are just two in a long list of problems facing sailors in a cut-throat shipping industry, reports...

1 Jul 2013 12 minute read

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Debt – a global scam

The actions of creditors are key to debt crises, argues Dinyar Godrej.

2 May 2013 3 minute read

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Bring workers’ rights back into fashion

Angered by the avoidable tragic factory collapse at Rana Plaza, Bangladesh, Mari Marcel Thekaekara looks at...

PODCAST: Vanessa Baird and Owen Jones on the feral rich

29 Jan 2013 1 minute read

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PODCAST: Vanessa Baird and Owen Jones on the feral rich

The super rich are gaining from the economic crisis while the poor get the blame – what can be done to stop them?

1 Dec 2011 3 minute read

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Can Zambia stand up to China?

Many Zambians feel that the flood of money from China has done nothing to improve their lives, as Andrew Bowman...

Who profits from the 7 billion population frenzy?

1 Nov 2011 4 minute read

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Who profits from the 7 billion population frenzy?

Vanessa Baird on why, when it comes to human numbers, nothing sells like fear.

Climate Camp lives on in the Occupy movement

31 Oct 2011 3 minute read

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Climate Camp lives on in the Occupy movement

The climate justice movement, like the current #Occupy protests, placed the need for real democracy at its heart, says...

98 of the FTSE 100 addicted to tax havens

18 Oct 2011 1 minute read

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98 of the FTSE 100 addicted to tax havens

Chris Jordan of ActionAid UK presents an interactive map showing the true extent of tax haven use by the UK's...

25 Jul 2011 4 minute read

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Back to the future, Genoa revisited

A decade on from the G8 summit at Genoa, when anti-globalization activists were viciously mistreated by Italian police,...

18 Apr 2011 2 minute read

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You can’t block the bucks

Starbucks arrives in Guatemala – and shakes up the country’s coffee culture.

14 Mar 2011 3 minute read

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The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization

"It seems to me we have a choice to make if we want to change things for the better in this world. And the rich aren’t going...

1 Mar 2011 13 minute read

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The Great Rebellion

The Great Recession may have stunned the Minority World, but the Majority World has survived more or less unscathed. David...

22 Jul 2010 1 minute read

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Winners of globalization

グローバル化の勝ち組になりたい

2 Mar 2010 9 minute read

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Globalization on the rocks

*David Ransom* argues that a corporate shipwreck lies behind the collapse of financial markets.

Deglobalization - reflections of a Filipino MP

2 Mar 2010 6 minute read

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Deglobalization - reflections of a Filipino MP

For a decade *Walden Bello* has known what really has to be done.

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