STWR - Share The World's Resources

The food crisis is actually a convergence of two crises - that of speculation driving a 'bubble economy', and the crisis of global agriculture created by international financial institutions, writes Sameer Dossani.

There is no cheap alternative to a green economy - and no trade off possible between the economy and ecology. What we need is a green industrial revolution and a 'new New Deal', writes George Monbiot.

The history of America took a sharp turn after the millennium into a chamber of horrors. What we may be seeing is the end of the Anglo-American Empire, and the birth of a multi-polar and more compassionate world, writes Richard C. Cook.

The spirit of the 1968 protests has been subsumed by the supposed inevitability of capitalism - and now demands the mobilization of those excluded in the slums of the developing world, writes Slavoj Žižek.

As the credit crunch deepens and prices spiral upwards, the antics of the hedge fund managers are making our lives even worse, writes Will Hutton.

We do not yet know the dominant energy source of the post-petroleum era, but it must revolve around renewable, climate-friendly and domestically-produced supplies, writes Michael T. Klare.

Speech by Andrew Simms, policy director and head of the climate change programme at nef (the new economics foundation), to the UN ECOSOC special session on climate change and the MDGs in New York.

We have entered a new geological era marked by growing environmental and social turbulence, the largest transfer of wealth in modern history, and a future defined by overdue questions on how to redress - or further embed - a world of unmanageable inequalities, writes Mike Davis.

Despite contrary views from economists, the soaring price of oil  is due to one outstanding factor: speculation.  This sobering picture calls for new licensing regulations limiting oil-market participation, writes Thomas Palley.