Pirate Fish on European Plates? No Thanks!
Are you sure the fish on your plate is not pirate? ...
Read more ›Weaving a Better Future, One Cotton Thread at a Time
Cultivating the indigenous brown cotton has brought economic empowerment to the women of Adaklu in Ghana and their families. ...
Read more ›Nairobi’s Lady Mekanikas Turn Pain Into Power
How Nairobi's Lady Mekanikas challenge gender stereotypes, or Economic empowerment in a garage: a successful social entrepreneurship story. ...
Read more ›Beyond London 2012 Olympics: Blood in Sochi 2014
When the Black Sea resort of Sochi (Russia) won the bid to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, Circassians were not celebrating. How could they? The 22nd Winter Olympiad will take place on the 150th anniversary of the events Circassians describe as genocide. This was committed by imperial Russia against the indigenous people of Caucasus, to whom the land belonged. To rub salt in the wounds, Olympic athletes are ...
Read more ›Who is Going to Win at the London Olympics?
How corporations with dodgy social and environmental records are using London OIympics for greenwashing the public. ...
Read more ›Toxic, Toxic Debt: Let the Sumerians Teach Us a Lesson
In ancient Babylon, kings would periodically announce a “Jubilee”, a day when all excessive debts were cancelled, and the most chronic debtors could breathe freely again (until next time perhaps, but still). This is a simple concept which 21st-century political élites in the Global North still fail to grasp, even in the face of incontestable evidence. ...
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