State of Power

This episode of the State of Power podcast examines the case of the resistance against the TAP pipeline in Salento, Italy.  Expected to bring 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas a year from Azerbaijan, the pipeline has been hailed as an impressive feat of engineering that will help solve Europe’s energy needs. However, there is no overstating how much the local populations along the pipeline de...

When Transnational Corporations violate the rights of people and communities, it can be almost impossible to hold them to account. That’s why TNI is a long term supporter of the process towards a United Nations Treaty on Transnational Corporations with regard to Human Rights . This episode of the State of Power podcast outlines some of the violations against people and the environment, perpetrated...

In 2008, as financial markets fell into chaos, the world got an acute reminder of the limitations of the current neoliberal financial system.  We need a systemic reversal, to ensure that public resources serve people and planet, and enhance collective and individual well-being. For this to become reality, we must pursue radical but doable proposals and practices, showing how progressive (local) au...

The financial crisis of 2008 revealed the limitations of our current neoliberal financial order. As banks and other financial institutions lost their grip on financial markets across the world, it was the world’s governments that stepped in and saved the system on the backs of their taxpayers.  If they have the capacity to create public money to save the banks, why don’t democratically elected gov...

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