Features

Zoe Cormier meets two indigenous people for whom this fight couldn’t be more personal.

Vast reserves of the black stuff are bringing the country nothing but trouble, argues *Andrew Nikiforuk*.

Leading Canadian activist Maude Barlow explains how trade agreements are driving the death of nature.

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

Books, websites, contacts on Democracy.

The facts about globalization, world trade, unemployment, economic activity and the bailouts.

Richard Swift finds some traces in Egypt and Latin America.

A sorry saga since corporate globalization got going in 1971.

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

The upside of markets that failed, suggests Indian economist Jayati Ghosh, is the chance to do better.

Setting out towards a post-corporate, post-carbon world – Rowenna Davis reports.

Is hell really other people? Vanessa Baird concludes with some sobering facts and reflections on equality.

Jonathon Porritt and the Corner House offer two very different perspectives on one of the big debates of the day.

Some Pacifc islands are already being evacuated. Bangladesh stands next in the climate change frontline. The difference is, it has a massive and growing population.

China and Iran: two ways to do family planning.

How ‘abstinence’ is pushing up the abortion rate.

Includes a murky past.

The average age of the population is increasing – people are living longer. Also, women are having fewer children. But is this greying of nations really a ‘crisis’?

Why tiny Timor Leste is undergoing a baby boom.

Vanessa Baird wonders why the demographers aren’t panicking.