Articles by Transnational Institute
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All Roads Lead to Jerusalem: A Lucrative Border Industrial Complex
Petra Molnar | Transnational Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2024
19 Dec 2023 – Hebron, a laboratory for both technology and violence, reflects the Israeli occupation’s impact on daily life, with sterilized roads, military checkpoints, and settler violence defining the landscape. This journey unveils the complex layers of trauma, dispossession, and dehumanization, challenging preconceptions and raising questions about freedom and oppression.
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Stop Funding Climate Disaster
Transnational Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
2 Nov 2022 – Big Bankers Are Part of the Problem, Not the Solution – Declaration: We cannot save the planet from disastrous climate change without tackling financial markets. As long as trillions of dollars go unhindered to fund yet more fossil fuels and deforestation, it will not be possible to halt climate change or enable communities to adapt.
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The End of the Corporation? Make the Profit-Maximizing Corporation Obsolete
Marjorie Kelly | Transnational Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
Marjorie Kelly makes a bold case for “the end of the corporation”—certainly in its dominant form as a profit-extraction machine designed primarily to enrich shareholders. “What must change is the structural design and ownership of the corporation itself. We need to envisage and create an entirely new concept of the company – a just firm – designed from the inside out for a new mandate: to serve broad wellbeing and the public good. The just firm is the only kind that should ultimately be permitted to exist. The time is coming when society must end the corporation as we know it.”
→ read full articleRevisiting the Lessons of the Battle of Seattle and Its Aftermath
Walden Bello | Transnational Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Walden Bello shares some reflections on the meaning of Seattle for change in knowledge systems, discusses how despite the deep crisis of neoliberalism, finance capital has managed to retain tremendous power, and appeals for a new comprehensive vision of the desirable society.
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Susan George – Transnational Institute,
22 Jun 2015
Hope springing eternal, I didn’t believe that the banks could emerge from the 2007-08 crisis far stronger than before, especially in political terms. Yes, some have paid staggering fines to governments – a total of $178 billion for the US and European banks – but they now consider such outlays as mere ‘costs of doing business’.
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Ben Hayes, Gavin Sullivan, Louise Boon-Kuo and Vicki Sentas – Transnational Institute,
2 Mar 2015
16 Feb 2015 – For those interested in peace and the non-violent resolution of conflict the prognosis is not good. Not just because the war on terror keeps producing enemies with whom, it is said, there is no negotiating, but because the legal and political framework it has engendered has transformed the way in which political violence and armed conflict are understood and managed.
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Susan George – Transnational Institute,
30 Aug 2010
At the Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM) in October, Asian governments should not take any lessons on democracy or economics from the European Union. We have to make common cause between Asian and European social movements, because we are all losing out from current policies. Susan George shared these reflections in the run-up to the Asia-Europe People’s Forum.
→ read full articleNEED-BASED DEVELOPMENT IN A FREE, JUST SOCIETY: THE LASTING LEGACY OF MAHATMA GANDHI
Praful Bidwai – Transnational Institute,
26 Feb 2010
An emphasis on popular mobilisation, essential to enfranchising the millions who were excluded from public life and political processes for centuries, remains one of Gandhi’s epochal successes. Hind Swaraj is an extraordinary tour de force of ideas, which tries to invest the concept of independence for an India freed from the burden and ignominy of […]
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