Topic: Corporate power
A brief history of global AI governance
Article / 8th September 2026Flagging the limits and dangers of unregulated Artificial Intelligence, Anita Gurumurthy and Nandini Chami call for international cooperation to align AI with the collective interests of humanity, not corporate profiteering.
The century-old legal fiction costing America $35.5 billion a year
Article / 27th August 2026One of the stranger features of the modern economy is that we no longer disagree about what a multinational corporation is—until the conversation turns to tax.
How the global food economy is killing children
Report / 10th July 2026New findings from the World Health Organisation are an indictment of a global food order that continues to expose millions to preventable illness and death.
ISDS is a threat to our collective future
Article / 28th April 2026Over 340 civil society organisations have signed an open statement calling on governments around the world to build a coalition to “free themselves” from a little-known international system of secretive tribunals.
Inequity’s deadly hold at COP30
Report / 15th November 2025A new civil-society report delivers a stark verdict at COP30: governments are still protecting profits over people - shielded by elite capture and fossil-fuel disinformation.
If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then?
Blog / 1st September 2025Even if AI's promise of material abundance is realised, will it be rightly shared? By Ben Spies-Butcher for the Conversation
How Trump weaponised the US budget bill overseas
Blog / 9th July 2025US headlines have been dominated by coverage of the many ways President Trump’s budget bill will gut healthcare programs and deepen economic inequality in the United States if it is passed into law.
Who should pay for climate loss and damage?
Blog / 22nd November 2024Who should pay for climate loss and damage? The big oil and gas industry who are most responsible for the crisis—it’s fundamentally an issue of climate justice, says Abdoulaye Diallo for IPS news.
More than £494bn subsidies a year in developing world harmful to climate
Report / 3rd October 2024More than $650bn (£494bn) a year in public subsidies goes to fossil fuel companies, intensive agriculture and other harmful industries in the developing world, new data has shown.
Oxfam accuses rich corporations of ‘grabbing’ water from Global South
Report / 22nd March 2024In a new report, Oxfam accuses major global corporations of 'grabbing' vital water resources at the expense of local populations, particularly in the Global South.