Topic: Corporate power
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.
Earth’s ‘life support system’ is being destroyed by global business paradigm, UN expert warns
News / 12th March 2024UN expert calls for an urgent and radical shift in how business and the global economy operates to prevent irreversible damage to Earth’s life support system and safeguard human rights.
WTO is unfit for purpose in an era of multiple crises
Blog / 29th February 2024A civil society statement to the 13th WTO Ministerial Conference in Abu Dhabi calls for an alternative international trade framework based on food sovereignty.
‘Taken, not earned: How monopolists drive the world’s power and wealth divide’
Report / 18th January 2024The world’s top companies are using their monopoly power in their markets to hike prices and keep them high amid inflation and a cost of living crisis. In the five years to 2022, for the world’s top 20 companies, the average “markup” has risen to around 50 per cent.
Poor people in the developing world have a right to medicine
Blog / 22nd November 2023People should not die because of their income or where they were born. We must have the courage to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry, writes Bernie Sanders.
Fossil fuel producers ‘literally doubling down’, new UNEP report warns
News / 10th November 2023Contrary to pledges to cut fossil fuel production, government policies worldwide will add up to a doubling of production in 2030, according to a new report from the UN environment agency..