Features

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.

The NI guide to how you can take action for climate justice, whether you’re in Copenhagen, in a major city or online.

Corporations have taken over the climate agenda. Oscar Reyes reveals who, how and why.

Copenhagen is not the only game in town. There are other ideas for how to keep fossil fuels in the ground. The NI catches up with one of the boldest: Ecuador's Yasuní initiative.

Will the Copenhagen conference deliver effective action on climate change? Not a chance, argues Jess Worth. So what's the alternative?