STWR - Share The World's Resources

A detailed analysis of nuclear weapons related developments in south Asia since 1998 - and the contradiction of amassing nuclear arms in a bid to establish peace, by Zia Mian and M. V. Ramana.

Moral panic over knife crime in the UK ignores the link between rampant consumer capitalism and social disintegration, writes Jeremy Seabrook.

With oil supplies peaking in the coming years and uranium following a similar path, the weight of humanity's needs will increasingly fall on coal - and our salvation lies in finding a way back to the pre-ICE era, writes Dilip Hiro.

The G8 climate communique showed that it is trying hard to avoid the necessary radical controls on growth, consumption, profits, and the market that a viable strategy to stave off the looming climate catastrophe will necessitate, writes Walden Bello.

The world economic crisis is at an early stage, manifesting itself primarily in the area of finance, but it will spread from the US to the "new industrial countries" and the global contraction in production will lead to stagflation.

The shift from consumptive, life-threatening growth to improved wellbeing and real quality of life is the key to an environmentally and socially sustainable future - and one which politicians must acknowledge, writes Jonathon Porritt.

Global levels of inequality threaten to halt progress toward economic development and efforts to alleviate deprivation such as the Millennium Development Goals, argues a new report.

As the world's need for grain soars, America's misguided attempt to wean itself off oil is exacerbating the food crisis, writes Lester Brown.

The relentless demand for raw materials will lead to the destruction of the world’s forests - and result in a global land grab that will leave millions of forest people impoverished and homeless, a new study warns.

The flaws of laissez-faire economics are again evident in the latest set of financial debacles - requiring fundamental reforms in global finance, writes Hazel Henderson.