It’s time to resurrect a global anti-fascist consensus to name, shame, and throw these guys out of the game.
Beating Back the Far Right Globally
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The TPP Trades Public Interest for Corporate Profits
From her home in Berks County, Pennsylvania, Karen Feridun is helping stage a growing citizen pushback against the expansion of natural gas extraction. But a far-reaching global deal recently signed halfway around the world may make her job much harder. Feridun got...
When Diplomats Misbehave: Standoff Between Malaysia and New Zealand
Diplomatic immunity has long been a staple of good-faith diplomatic relations between governments in the modern state system. But although the privilege was designed to reduce the incidence of conflict between states, its abuse has often had the opposite effect. The...
Open Fire and Open Markets: The Asia-Pacific Pivot and Trans-Pacific Partnership
The struggle for food sovereignty in the Pacific got a major boost last December when Billy Kenoi, mayor of Hawai’i's Big Island, signed a law that prevents farmers from growing any new genetically engineered crops (with the exception of papaya). This follows a...
Annotate This: The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Last month, after 30 years of advocacy by Indigenous Peoples, the United Nations finally passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. This Declaration is more than a hard-won victory for Indigenous rights. It embodies a progressive global approach to issues that confront us all, including the environmental crisis that is poised to spiral into ecological collapse if we do not slow global warming.