Agroecology as Innovation
A UN report on agroecology finds that many farming methods pooh-poohed as traditional offer significant advantages over industrial farming.
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How NGOs in Rich Countries Control their Counterparts in Poor Countries..and Why they Refuse to Resolve it
Many NGOs around the world are fighting inequality between the rich and the poor, but the bigger NGOs are unwilling to fight policies that keep rich NGOs richer.
Read more...Spring Stirrings and Misgivings: Of Autocrats and Uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa
This spring, eight years later, there has been a new set of popular uprisings in northern Africa, from Algeria to Morocco, to Sudan. Let’s hope they have more lasting success than Egypt’s Arab Spring.
Read more...Coping With World Bank-Led Financialization
The World Bank has successfully promoted its ‘Maximizing Finance for Development’ (MFD) strategy by embracing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, internationally endorsed in September 2015.
Read more...Clean Water: UNICEF Shows More Children Die from Diarrhea than Direct Violence in Conflict Zones
Unicef reports diarrhea causes more childhood deaths in conflict zones than outright violence. Bangladesh’s recent history shows even the poorest countries can reduce fatalities from diarrheal disease.
Read more...Climate Change: Hurricanes to Deliver a Bigger Punch to Coasts
Tropical cyclone Idai may be a harbinger of further catastrophic coastal storms; climate change projections suggest the number of intense hurricanes will rise.
Read more...Boeing Crapification: Second 737 Max Plane Within Five Months Crashes Just After Takeoff
Another Boeing 737 aircraft crashed minutes after takeoff in Addis Ababa yesterday, killing all 157 passengers on board, in circumstances similar to last October’s Lion Air crash in Indonesia. Consequences for Boeing depend on what the just-recovered voice and data recorders reveal.
Read more...UN Backs Seed Sovereignty as Defense Against Multinational-Led GMO Projects
The anti-GMO UN declaration was written by and for peasants from every continent.
Read more...How Climate Change Is Increasing Global Hunger
New bad facts on world hunger.
Read more...The CFA Franc Zones: Neocolonialism and Dependency
How France still exerts influence over the CFA franc zone.
Read more...Trump Is Giving Protectionism a Bad Name
A short overview of some protectionism successes.
Read more...Commandos Sans Frontières: The Global Growth of US Special Operations Forces
Why Green Berets and Navy SEALs need to solve national security problems — strategic issues that ought to be addressed by policymakers — is a question that has long gone unanswered: Overview of global deployment of US commandos.
Read more...New York Times: Virtuous McKinsey Defiled by Dark Continent
McKinsey is unhappy that the New York Times did a serious investigative story on a major scandal in South Africa….when the Times pulled some of its punches.
Read more...Back to the Future with Empire Oil
A network of oil companies arond Mayfair, but registered in Britain’s offshore tax-haven network, provides a snapshot of the new imperialism.
Read more...CalPERS CFO Charles Asubonten’s Form 700 Violation and His Unduly Mysterious Private Equity Firm
More on the sketchy history of CalPERS’ new CEO, Charles Asubonten.
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