The Tragedy of The Private, The Potential of The Public | The Transnational Institute

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April 29, 2014

New study by The Transnational Institute, posted as part of Heathwood's Global Voice project. The Transnational Institute has published a new report by Hilary Wainwright on the struggle against privatisatio... Read More...

I Am a Woman and a Human: A Marxist-Feminist Critique of Intersectionality Theory

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April 9, 2014

Key Series: Race, Class, Gender, Ability: Cultural Studies and Critical Intersections By Eve Mitchell In the United States, during the late 20th and early 21st centuries, a specific set of politics among th... Read More...

IPCC Report: On the risks to life and livelihood from climate change – now and in the future

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March 31, 2014

New report by the IPCC on Climate Change - posted as part of Heathwood's Global Voice project. "A United Nations report raised the threat of climate change to a whole new level on Monday, warning of sweeping... Read More...

Radical New UN Report ‘On The Right To Food’: Promoting Democratic Control of Food and an End to Corporate Domination

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March 28, 2014

New report by the UN on 'The Right to Food'. Posted as part of Heathwood's Global Voice project. * * * By Sonali Kolhatkar, A new report submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council on the “Rig... Read More...

Noam Chomsky: The U.S. behaves nothing like a democracy

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March 27, 2014

The following is a transcript of a recent speech delivered Noam Chomsky in Bonn, Germany, at DW Global Media Forum, Bonn, Germany. It was previously published at Alternet. Posted as part of Heathwood's Global V... Read More...

How corporations and lawyers are scavenging profits from Europe’s crisis countries – Transnational Institute

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March 24, 2014

New report by The Transnational Institute, posted as part of Heathwood's Global Voice project. The following is a report by Cecilia Olivet and Pia Eberhardt, published by the Transnational Institute, on how ... Read More...

State of Power 2014 – Transnational Institute

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February 17, 2014

New report by The Transnational Institute. Posted as part of Heathwood's Global Voice project. "In its third annual ‘State of Power’ report, The Transnational Institute uses vibrant infographics and penetrat... Read More...

Working for the Few: Political capture and economic inequality – A report by Oxfam

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January 22, 2014

New report on inequality by Oxfam International, posted as part of Heathwood's Global Voice project. Authors: Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva, Head of Research, Oxfam GB; Nicholas Galasso, Research and Policy Advis... Read More...

Study of World Protests (2006 – 2013) by the Initiative for Policy Dialogue

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January 4, 2014

New study of World Protests by the Initiative for Policy Dialogue. Published as part of Heathwood's Global Voice project. The following is a study of world protests (2006-2013) by the Initiative for Policy D... Read More...

The Great European Fire Sale – Graphic by the Transnational Institute

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January 2, 2014

Graphic by The Transnational Institute, posted as part of Heathwood's Global Voice project. Below is an infographic created by the Transnational Institute. It illustrates among other things the extent of pri... Read More...

The Alternative Trade Mandate – Transnational Institute

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December 29, 2013

New report by The Transnational Institute. Posted as part of Heathwood's Global Voice project. The Transnational Institute released a new, interdisciplinary report that sketches out the rough horizon of a po... Read More...

United Nations Trade and Environmental Report (2013): An Alternative Agricultural Paradigm

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December 17, 2013

New report by the UN, published as part of Heathwood's Global Voice project. (If the PDF doesn't display properly, please refresh the page) ... Read More...

Judith Butler: Can one lead a good life in a bad life?

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August 18, 2013

A transcript of Judith Butler's speech during her acceptance of the Adorno prize, where she discusses Adorno's ethical project and the problem of 'leading a good life in a bad one'. Also check-out our f... Read More...

Political Ideology: Its Structure, Functions, and Elective Affinities

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August 5, 2013

The following is a study by John T. Jost, Christopher M. Federico, and Jaime L. Napier published by The Annual Review of Psychology. Posted as part of Heathwood's Global Voice project. Key Series: Racism, Ra... Read More...

Social Dominance Orientation: A Personality Variable Predicting Social and Political Attitudes

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July 23, 2013

Paper by Felicia Pratto, Jim Sidanius, Lisa M.Stallworth, and Bertram F. Malle on introducing social dominance theory. Published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (1994). Posted as part of Hea... Read More...

15 Facts about U.S. Inequality

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May 13, 2013

Graphic by The Stanford Centre for the Study of Poverty and Inequality. Posted as part of Heathwood's Global Voice project. The following infographic is based on a data set from The Stanford Centre for the S... Read More...

Report: The failure of austerity and why we need a new, alternative macroeconomic strategy

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May 2, 2013

The following is a summary by senior economist James Meadway, which discusses a recent report by the New Economics Foundation (see below). The report outlines why austerity economics is essentially baseless and... Read More...

Guns, debt and corruption: Report on military spending and the EU crisis

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April 26, 2013

Below is a summary by Frank Slijper, which gives a great account of a recent report published by TNI (also by Slijper). The report highlights the disaster of european military spending and corrupt arms deals in... Read More...

Millennials & Economic Inequality

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April 24, 2013

Graphic illustrating the findings of the Millennial Values Survey by the Berkley Center. Published as part of Heathwood's Global Voice project. The Millennial Values Survey, conducted by the Berkley Center a... Read More...

Annual income of richest 100 people enough to end global poverty four times over

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April 16, 2013

The annual 2012 income report by Oxfam shows that the $240 billion (£150bn) net income of the richest 100 billionaires would be enough to end global poverty four times over. The report, which you can find here,... Read More...