Podcasts about Transnational Institute

Se les llama “minerales críticos” y lo son. No sólo por su escasez, sino por su coste invisible: el que pagan los territorios, los cuerpos, y el medio ambiente. España es el país con más proyectos mineros estratégicos de la Unión Europea. Pero, ¿quién gana y quién pierde con esta nueva fiebre extractiva? En este Carne Cruda viajamos del litio latinoamericano al subsuelo extremeño, de los móviles que usamos cada día a las armas que marcan la geopolítica global. Con Adriana Espinosa (Amigas de la Tierra), Lucía Bárcena (Transnational Institute), Alicia Valero (CIRCE), Teresa de Fortuny (Centre Delàs) y Mariano Sanz (CCOO), analizamos el mapa de intereses que hay detrás de estos minerales. Un programa en colaboración con Amigas de la Tierra. Más información aquí: bit.ly/MinasCC1520 Haz posible Carne Cruda: ⁠http://bit.ly/ProduceCC

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Echo Chamber Pod we talk with War and Pacification coordinator with the Transnational Institute, Niamh Ní Bhriain about the ongoing political, social and mainstream campaign to do away with Ireland's triple lock system and our longstanding and publicly supported commitment to neutrality. The EU ChatControl Podcast with Simon McGarr is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-125125197 Donate to Dignity for Palestine:https://www.patreon.com/posts/dignity-for-your-124980167

Featuring more analysis from Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay on the shape of global geopolitics and geoeconomics. We discuss: the fault lines of the green energy transition; the US and China battle for dominance while the rest of the world seeks advantage and opportunities for leverage; the US and Russia's full-throttle commitment to fossil capitalism; the IMF's ongoing imposition of neoliberal austerity on the world's poorest countries, which, in opposition to these plans, want to remake the entire world capitalist system. Plus: Why the economic weapon failed against China and Russia, and a lot more. The second in a two-part series. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Subscribe to The Polycrisis newsletter phenomenalworld.org/series/the-polycrisis Download a free copy of The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam Dixon academic.oup.com/book/57552 Transnational Institute reports: The New Frontline: The US-China Battle for Control of Global Networks tni.org/en/article/the-new-frontline Geopolitics of Capitalism: State of Power 2025 tni.org/en/publication/geopolitics-of-capitalism Get 50% off Pirate Care and other books in your first order from plutobooks.com with code ‘DIG50'.

Featuring Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay on a global conjuncture defined by Washington's shredding of the liberal international order's legitimacy amid a panic over decline: the escalating Cold War with China; Gaza genocide; Trump's tariff wars and militarism, and his pivot toward Putin on Ukraine; European defense buildup and fiscal revolution; what this all means for the poor majority of the Global South, and more. Part one of a two-part series. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Subscribe to The Polycrisis newsletter phenomenalworld.org/series/the-polycrisis Download a free copy of The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam Dixon academic.oup.com/book/57552 Transnational Institute reports: The New Frontline: The US-China Battle for Control of Global Networks tni.org/en/article/the-new-frontline Geopolitics of Capitalism: State of Power 2025 tni.org/en/publication/geopolitics-of-capitalism Buy Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal at Haymarketbooks.com Buy Nuclear Is Not The Solution at Versobooks.com

Follow Fr Alex on X @alexdjfrost order his book here https://www.waterstones.com/book/our-daily-bread/father-alex-frost/alastair-campbell/9780008556556 Follow Arun Kundnani on X his website is here https://www.kundnani.org/ Arun Kundnani is a writer interested in race, Islamophobia, surveillance, political violence, and radicalism. A good introduction to his overall political perspective is this article, first published in the Guardian: There are two kinds of antiracism. Born in London, Kundnani moved to New York in 2010 and now lives in Philadelphia. The Guardian has described him as “one of Britain's best political writers.” Kundnani is the author of What is Antiracism? (Verso, 2023), The Muslims are Coming! (Verso, 2014) and The End of Tolerance (Pluto, 2007), which was selected as a New Statesman book of the year, and co-author of Homeland Security: Myths and Monsters (Common Notions, 2024). He has written for the Nation, the Guardian, the Washington Post, and The Intercept. A former editor of the journal Race & Class, he holds a PhD from London Metropolitan University and is an Associate of the Transnational Institute. Kundnani is currently working on a biography of Jamil Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, to be published by Doubleday. The project has been supported with a 2024 Whiting Creative Nonfiction grant, and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at New York Public Library.

History in Action Part 4 talks about the fallout of the financial crises, the rise of new forms of authoritarianism, the new movements that shook the world, and the work against transnational corporate impunity.  Narrator: Shaun Matsheza Interviews conducted by: Denis Burke, Daria Gorshenina and Shaun Matsheza Music: Aleksey Chistilin Interviews with: Walden Bello, Sol Trumbo Vila , Niamh Ni Bhriain, Achin Vanaik, Dorothy Guerrero, Lucía Bárcena, Martin Jelsma Archival audio with: Susan George, Howard Wachtel,  Brid Brennan Find out more about TNI at tni.org Please consider making a contribution to support our vital work at tni.org/donate With thanks to the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam

History in Action Part 1 delves into the founding of the Transnational Institute (TNI) and its origins with the Institute for Policy Studies. We look at the roots of TNI in opposition to the Vietnam War and other global liberation movements. We explore TNI's evolution and its sustained resistance against neoliberal ideologies, its tragedy with the assassination of Orlando Letelier, and its early work on debt, food and alternatives. Narrator: Shaun Matsheza Interviews conducted by: Denis Burke, Daria Gorshenina and Shaun Matsheza Music: Aleksey Chistilin Interviews with: Susan George, Cora and Peter Weiss, John Cavanagh, Achin Vanaik, Anthony Barnett, Susan Buck-Morss, Ariane van Buren, Manuel Pérez-Rocha Archival audio with: John Berger, Isabel Letelier, Orlando Letelier, Eqbal Ahmad, Basker Vashee, Fred Halliday Find out more about TNI at tni.org Please consider making a contribution to support our vital work at tni.org/donate With thanks to the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam

History in Action Part 5 guides us through the multifaceted impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, underscored by increasing corporate power and social injustices—from healthcare privatization and vaccine disparities to the militarization of borders. We talk about green colonialism and the people hijacking the transition to renewable energy for their own profits. We talk about Gaza. Insights from diverse activists and scholars emphasize the need for a collective, just transition and highlight the historical and ongoing struggles for social justice, for international solidarity and for systemic change. Narrator: Shaun Matsheza Interviews conducted by: Denis Burke, Daria Gorshenina and Shaun Matsheza Music: Aleksey Chistilin Interviews with: Arun Kundnani, Niamh Ni Bhriain, Katie Sandwell, Lucía Bárcena, Walden Bello, Sol Trumbo Vila , Achin Vanaik, Dorothy Guerrero, John Cavanagh, Achin Vanaik, Lyda Fernanda Forero, Manuel Pérez-Rocha, Fiona Dove Archival audio with: Abir Kopty, Hamza Hamouchene, Susan George Find out more about TNI at tni.org Please consider making a contribution to support our vital work at tni.org/donate With thanks to the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam

History in Action Part 3 discusses the disastrous war on terror, the rise of China, and the convergence of social movements around the climate crisis, land, and essential public services. Narrator: Shaun Matsheza Interviews conducted by: Denis Burke, Daria Gorshenina and Shaun Matsheza Music: Aleksey Chistilin Interviews with: Arun Kundnani,  Lyda Fernanda Forero, Jun Borras, Walden Bello, Dorothy Guerrero, Fiona Dove Archival audio with: Howard Wachtel, Brid Brennan, Satoko Kishimoto, Fred Halliday Find out more about TNI at tni.org Please consider making a contribution to support our vital work at tni.org/donate With thanks to the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam

History in Action Part 2 dives into the 1990s, focusing on the impact of the Cold War's end, the rise of neoliberalism, the emergence of the Alter-Globalization Movement, and the history of TNI's drugs and democracy programme. Key figures and activists explore significant shifts in global politics, the consolidation of U.S. imperial power, and the resistance of social movements: from the rise of progressive alternatives to the struggle against corporate power and neoliberal trade regimes. Narrator: Shaun Matsheza Interviews conducted by: Denis Burke, Daria Gorshenina and Shaun Matsheza Music: Aleksey Chistilin Interviews with: Susan George, Hilary Wainwright, Walden Bello, Martin Jelsma, Gonzalo Berrón, John Cavanagh, Achin Vanaik, Lyda Fernanda Forero, Manuel Pérez-Rocha, Jun Borras, Fiona Dove Archival audio with: John Berger, Isabel Letelier, Orlando Letelier, Eqbal Ahmad, Basker Vashee, Fred Halliday Find out more about TNI at tni.org Please consider making a contribution to support our vital work at tni.org/donate With thanks to the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam

The election is nearing, and students are going back to school. What does this mean for student organizers demanding a ceasefire in Gaza? For the uncommitted movement? In this episode, Julia facilitates an intergenerational conversation about anti-war organizing. Guests Phyllis Bennis and Roua Daas reflect on campus demonstrations in the spring and share their thoughts on what lies ahead for the ceasefire now movement.Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) Fellow Phyllis Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at IPS, focusing on the Middle East, U.S. militarism, and UN issues. She is also a fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. In 2002, she co-founded United for Peace and Justice, a coalition against the Iraq war. In 2001, she helped found the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights and more recently spent six years on the board of Jewish Voice for Peace, where she now serves as its International Adviser. She works with many anti-war and Palestinian rights organizations, writing and speaking widely across the U.S. and around the world. She has served as an informal adviser to several top UN officials on Middle East issues and was twice short-listed to become the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.Phyllis has written and edited 11 books. Among her latest is the 7th updated edition of her popular Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, published in 2018. She is also the author of Before & After: U.S. Foreign Policy and the War on Terror and Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy U.S. Power.Roua Daas is a Palestinian organizer with Students for Justice in Palestine. She attended Butler University for undergrad, where she co-founded the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter and led several campaigns, including a successful defeat of the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which falsely conflates anti-Zionism and antisemitism, and a campaign against an authoritarian university administration decision to cancel a student-led event featuring abolitionist, scholar, and activist Angela Davis. Currently, she is a graduate student in Pennsylvania State University's Clinical Psychology and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies program, where she organizes with Penn State Students for Justice in Palestine.Their recent work:How we passed a cease-fire resolution in our town, Roua Daas, American Friends Services CommitteeUncommitted voters sending a clear message to Biden about slaughter in Gaza, Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies

In this episode, Petra Molnar - Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Lauren Hawker Zafer is joined by Petra Molnar. Lauren and Petra shape a critical conversation in which they redefine what ethical AI really means, especially when human lives and freedoms are at stake. Who is Petra Molnar? Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specializing in migration and human rights. A former classical musician, she has been working in migrant justice since 2008, first as a settlement worker and community organizer, and now as a researcher and lawyer. She writes about digital border technologies, immigration detention, health and human rights, gender-based violence, as well as the politics of refugee, immigration, and international law. Petra has worked all over the world including Jordan, Turkey, Philippines, Kenya, Colombia, Canada, Palestine, and various parts of Europe. She is the co-creator of the Migration and Technology Monitor, a collective of civil society, journalists, academics, and filmmakers interrogating technological experiments on people crossing borders. She is the Associate Director of the Refugee Law Lab at York University and a Faculty Associate (and former Fellow) at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Petra's writing has been featured in outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, The Transnational Institute, and Just Security. Her first book, The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in The Age of Artificial Intelligence is out now! #redefiningai #techpodcast #ethicalai #responsibleai

Season Three - Spotlight Ten Our tenth spotlight of this season is a snippet of our upcoming episode: Petra Molnar - Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Join host Lauren Hawker Zafer as she engages in an important discussion with Petra Molnar. Don't miss this critical conversation redefining what ethical AI really means when human lives and freedoms are at stake. Who is Petra Molnar? Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specializing in migration and human rights. A former classical musician, she has been working in migrant justice since 2008, first as a settlement worker and community organizer, and now as a researcher and lawyer. She writes about digital border technologies, immigration detention, health and human rights, gender-based violence, as well as the politics of refugee, immigration, and international law. Petra has worked all over the world including Jordan, Turkey, Philippines, Kenya, Colombia, Canada, Palestine, and various parts of Europe. She is the co-creator of the Migration and Technology Monitor, a collective of civil society, journalists, academics, and filmmakers interrogating technological experiments on people crossing borders. She is the Associate Director of the Refugee Law Lab at York University and a Faculty Associate (and former Fellow) at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Petra's writing has been featured in outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, The Transnational Institute, and Just Security. Her first book, The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in The Age of Artificial Intelligence is out now! #redefiningai #techpodcast #ethicalai #responsibleai

In a milestone win for civil society, the EU will withdraw from the climate-wrecking Energy Charter Treaty (or ECT). The ECT was designed in the 1990s to favour industry's interests, and was a powerful weapon to obstruct the kind of phaseout of fossil fuels needed to avoid catastrophic climate change. It should never have existed in the first place.In this episode of EU Watchdog Radio, Joana Louçã talks to Pia Eberhardt, former campaigner and researcher at CEO, and Lucía Bárcena, Project Coordinator at the  Transnational Institute, or TNI, to celebrate the decision of the EU to finally leave the Energy Charter Treaty.WHO WE AREThis podcast is produced by CEO and Counter Balance. Both NGOs raise awareness on the importance of good governance in the EU by researching issues like lobbying of large and powerful industries, corporate capture of decision making, corruption, fraud, human rights violations in areas like Big Tech, agro-business, biotech & chemical companies, the financial sector & public investment banks, trade, energy & climate, scientific research and much more…You can find us wherever you listen to your podcasts. Stay tuned for more independent and in-depth information that concerns every EU citizen!

Marcos Arruda is an economist, professor and author. He is an associate and co-founder of the PACS Institute – Alternative Policies for the Southern Cone, Rio de Janeiro since 1986 and an associate of the Transnational Institute, in Amsterdam, since 1975. Arruda is the co-founder and former director of IBASE – Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic Analysis, Rio de Janeiro, a former member of the Institute of Cultural Action, in Geneva and a consultant in youth and adult education and development for the Ministries of Education of Guine Bissau and Nicarágua. He is also a former professor of Philosophy of Popular Education at IESAE – Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro (1983-1992), as well as a professor and lecturer at universities in Brazil and abroad. Arruda is a member and collaborator of several organizations linked to human rights and environmental issues. He is the author and co-author of more than 10 books and hundreds of articules, published in Brazil and abroad, including A Mother's Cry: A Memoir of Politics, Prison, and Torture under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship.Brazil is going through challenging times. There's never been a more important moment to understand Brazil's politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren't easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Just in Time - the urgent need for a just transition in the Arab region. The newly published book Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate justice in the Arab Region (Pluto Press, 2023) edited by Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell questions the development of sustainable energy production in the middle eastern and north African region. Positioning itself as part of a wider discussion of just transition, it provides wonderful insight into the colonial and capitalist narratives used to legitimise projects coming from the Global North. Furthermore, it highlights the fact that there is a need to deconstruct environmental orientalism to tackle questions of power at a local, regional, and international level. Hamza Hamouchene is a researcher, activist and the programme coordinator for Africa at the Transnational Institute, based in the UK. Originally from Algeria, he brings wide understanding of climate and social justice.  Sarah Vogelsanger is a master student at SOAS in "Environment, Politics, and Development" and passionate about feminist approaches to social justice and political ecology.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Just in Time - the urgent need for a just transition in the Arab region. The newly published book Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate justice in the Arab Region (Pluto Press, 2023) edited by Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell questions the development of sustainable energy production in the middle eastern and north African region. Positioning itself as part of a wider discussion of just transition, it provides wonderful insight into the colonial and capitalist narratives used to legitimise projects coming from the Global North. Furthermore, it highlights the fact that there is a need to deconstruct environmental orientalism to tackle questions of power at a local, regional, and international level. Hamza Hamouchene is a researcher, activist and the programme coordinator for Africa at the Transnational Institute, based in the UK. Originally from Algeria, he brings wide understanding of climate and social justice.  Sarah Vogelsanger is a master student at SOAS in "Environment, Politics, and Development" and passionate about feminist approaches to social justice and political ecology.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/middle-eastern-studies

Just in Time - the urgent need for a just transition in the Arab region. The newly published book Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate justice in the Arab Region (Pluto Press, 2023) edited by Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell questions the development of sustainable energy production in the middle eastern and north African region. Positioning itself as part of a wider discussion of just transition, it provides wonderful insight into the colonial and capitalist narratives used to legitimise projects coming from the Global North. Furthermore, it highlights the fact that there is a need to deconstruct environmental orientalism to tackle questions of power at a local, regional, and international level. Hamza Hamouchene is a researcher, activist and the programme coordinator for Africa at the Transnational Institute, based in the UK. Originally from Algeria, he brings wide understanding of climate and social justice.  Sarah Vogelsanger is a master student at SOAS in "Environment, Politics, and Development" and passionate about feminist approaches to social justice and political ecology.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

Just in Time - the urgent need for a just transition in the Arab region. The newly published book Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate justice in the Arab Region (Pluto Press, 2023) edited by Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell questions the development of sustainable energy production in the middle eastern and north African region. Positioning itself as part of a wider discussion of just transition, it provides wonderful insight into the colonial and capitalist narratives used to legitimise projects coming from the Global North. Furthermore, it highlights the fact that there is a need to deconstruct environmental orientalism to tackle questions of power at a local, regional, and international level. Hamza Hamouchene is a researcher, activist and the programme coordinator for Africa at the Transnational Institute, based in the UK. Originally from Algeria, he brings wide understanding of climate and social justice.  Sarah Vogelsanger is a master student at SOAS in "Environment, Politics, and Development" and passionate about feminist approaches to social justice and political ecology.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/geography

Just in Time - the urgent need for a just transition in the Arab region. The newly published book Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate justice in the Arab Region (Pluto Press, 2023) edited by Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell questions the development of sustainable energy production in the middle eastern and north African region. Positioning itself as part of a wider discussion of just transition, it provides wonderful insight into the colonial and capitalist narratives used to legitimise projects coming from the Global North. Furthermore, it highlights the fact that there is a need to deconstruct environmental orientalism to tackle questions of power at a local, regional, and international level. Hamza Hamouchene is a researcher, activist and the programme coordinator for Africa at the Transnational Institute, based in the UK. Originally from Algeria, he brings wide understanding of climate and social justice.  Sarah Vogelsanger is a master student at SOAS in "Environment, Politics, and Development" and passionate about feminist approaches to social justice and political ecology.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/economics

Jullie zien het goed: er staat een éxtra aflevering online! En daarin duiken we in de wapenindustrie. Sinds het begin van de oorlog in Oekraïne is in heel Europa het besef gekomen dat er méér geïnvesteerd moet worden in de eigen defensie-industrie. Maar hoe profiteert die wapenindustrie daar precies van, en zijn daar ook kritische noten bij te kraken? Daarover Mark Akkerman, verbonden aan het Transnational Institute, en oprichter van Stop Wapenhandel. Fragmenten uit aflevering: Op 30 oktober staan we in het theater, in Tivoli Vredenburg in Utrecht, met niemand minder dan Iris de Graaf! Tickets zijn hier te verkrijgen (https://www.vpro.nl/evenementen/2023/Europa-draait-door-live.html) Reportage van Deutsche Welle over de wapenindustrie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjiFzmYVG7w) Generaal Onno Eichelsheim over het investeringen in de wapenindustrie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr0m_FZuCJc) Sibelius: 13 Pieces Op.76－No.2 Étude: Andsnes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_G96IQmgw8)

En esta interesante charla hablamos sobre el mercado del trabajo y los cambios profundos (o no) que pueden venir de la mano del desarrollo tecnológico. Sofía es economista. Miembro del Instituto del Mundo del Trabajo Julio Godio. Directora del Observatorio de Impactos Sociales de la IA de UNTREF. Investigadora asociada al Transnational Institute. F5 es el nuevo podcast de Faro Digital que indaga sobre temas vinculados a las tecnologías, la cultura, la educación y la ciudadanía digital. Suscribite a nuestro canal para enterarte de cada estreno.

As the impacts of the climate crisis escalate, there is a growing trend for securitised responses that foreground the role of militaries in tackling the fallout. But whose interests do these militaries serve and what role have they played in bringing about environmental catastrophe.In this episode we speak with Nick Buxton, a communications specialist with 20 years experience in climate sustainability and international development, to pick his brain on the intersection between climate change, the military and security. Nick has produced an incredible body of work for the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute, covering climate change, border securitisation, Big Tech and much more. Follow this link to read Nick's  Primer on Climate Security | Transnational Institute (tni.org). You can also follow him on Twitter via @nickbuxton.Support the show via the Warrior Nation Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/WarriorNationOr follow us on Instagram (@forceswatch) and Twitter (@ForcesWatch).Sign-up to our newsletter.You can discover Housmans Bookshop's amazing selection here: https://housmans.com/Music by Esion Noise.Support the show

Topic: Ukraine has been trending in the news again - and not necessarily for good reasons. Earth has evidently “crept its closest to Armageddon”, With Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the specter of nuclear weapon use. And ironically so - because after 11 months during which Ukraine has won repeated and decisive victories against Russian forces, things are currently actually at a stalemate. However, it seems that the war is about to enter a new more deadly and fateful phase as both sides are now said to be bracing for a fierce new round of offensives in the late winter or spring. Phyllis Bennis - author, activist and director the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies – joins Tavis to talk about this seemingly interminable war and unpacks why we should even care about this conflict. Bio: Fellow Phyllis Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, focusing on Middle East, U.S. wars and UN issues. She is also a fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. In 2001 she helped found the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and now serves on the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace. She works with many anti-war and Palestinian rights organizations, writing and speaking widely across the U.S. and around the world. She has served as an informal adviser to several top UN officials on Middle East issues and was twice short-listed to become the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Phyllis has written and edited eleven books. Among her latest is the just-published 7th updated edition of her popular Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. She has also written Before & After: US Foreign Policy and the War on Terror and Challenging Empire: How People, Governments and the UN Defy U.S. Power.

What is the future of ownership? Is it "The Great Reset" or "Feudalism 2.0"? In this episode we look into the direction we're headed, and the existing theories commonly shared around. Learn More:8 predictions for the world in 2030 - YouTubeThe Great Reset | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)Fact check: The World Economic Forum does not have a stated goal to have people own nothing by 2030 | ReutersWho does the World Economic Forum really represent? | Transnational Institute (tni.org)U.S. Wage Growth Fails To Keep Up With Rising Prices For 17 Consecutive Months (forbes.com)America is Becoming a Nation of Renters | 37th Parallel (37parallel.com)Housing affordability collapses at fastest clip on record (axios.com)Household debt soars at fastest pace in 15 years as credit card use surges, Fed report says (cnbc.com)https://www.worldhistory.org/Feudalism/https://www.firstthings.com/article/2022/01/our-neo-feudal-futureSupport the show

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing how the weapons business is making dramatic use of the war in Ukraine. Our guest, Niamh Ni Bhriain, is the War and Pacification Programme Coordinator at the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Transnational Institute and Stop Wapenhandel have a new report out called "Smoke Screen: How States Are Using the War in Ukraine to Drive a New Arms Race." The report is available here: https://www.tni.org/en/publication/smoke-screen

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing how the weapons business is making dramatic use of the war in Ukraine. Our guest, Niamh Ni Bhriain, is the War and Pacification Programme Coordinator at the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Transnational Institute and Stop Wapenhandel have a new report out called "Smoke Screen: How States Are Using the War in Ukraine to Drive a New Arms Race." The report is available here: https://www.tni.org/en/publication/smoke-screen

Edgardo Lander, sociólogo venezolano, profesor en la Universidad Central de Venezuela e investigador asociado del Transnational Institute, participó a fines de septiembre pasado en Bogotá, Colombia, del encuentro “Transiciones Justas Latinoamericanas” organizado por OXFAM América Latina, CLACSO, la Escuela de Ciencias Humanas y la Universidad del Rosario de Bogotá. En ese marco, analizó para CLACSO.tv el contexto regional actual tanto geopolítico como en lo concerniente al medioambiente donde “nos encontramos en un momento crítico… No sabemos si es ya demasiado tarde pero es obviamente una posibilidad”. Y dejó definiciones como que “no es que los pueblos indígenas hayan aprendido a convivir con la selva, los pueblo aborígenes han construido la selva”. Entrevistó Gustavo Lema

Between 2013 and 2021, the world's richest countries spent $9 trillion on the military, compared to $244 billion on climate finance for the world's most vulnerable countries, according to the Transnational Institute.

The environmental and social effects of the industrial capitalist system have long been obvious to marginalised communities forced to live in the garbage dumps of production while their resources are pillaged for raw materials. However, today, the systemic effects are increasingly visible to all. It's clear, to save humanity and complex life on our precious planet, we need a major course change.  If we're to survive, we need to figure out how to leave fossil fuels in the ground, and  how to adapt to the already changing climate while moving towards renewable energies, sustainable levels of energy use and other social transformations.  Billions will be spent on trying to adapt – finding new water sources, restructuring agriculture and changing the crops that are grown, building sea walls to keep the saltwater out, changing the shape and style of cities – and on trying to shift to green sources of energy by building the required infrastructure and investing in green jobs and technology. But whose interest will this adaptation and energy transition serve? And who will be expected to bear the heaviest costs of the climate crisis, and of the responses to it? Since the 1990s the alter-globalisation and food sovereignty movements have advanced large-scale critiques of neoliberal capitalism. In the 21st century a wide variety of movements have adopted a shared language of system change, arguing that human rights abuses, political and social harms, and the climate crisis can be addressed only by a transformation of our entire social, cultural, political, and economic system. However, whatever transition happens must not come at the price of the destruction of lives and livelihoods. Justice has to be a key factor.  The movements often use an intersectional lens, arguing that sexism and patriarchy, racism, and other forms of violence and systems of oppression are fundamental features of the capitalist system, and must be addressed.  Increasingly, these different calls are beginning to come together under the banner of Just Transition. But what do we mean by a Just Transition, and how do we orient ourselves and our social movements towards a such a Transition?  On this episode of the SOP podcast, Hamza Hamouchene unpacks a vision for a Just Transition, with a specific focus on North Africa. Hamza has done research on extractivism, energy democracy, food sovereignty and environmental and climate justice in the North African context. He is also the coordinator for North Africa at the Transnational Institute, where he has recently put together a dossier, a collection of essays from multiple authors, focusing on different dimensions of the energy transition in North Africa. With this year's UN conference of the parties, COP27 taking place in Egypt, there seems to be no better time to put a spotlight on the region.  Episode Notes: Just Transition in North Africa https://longreads.tni.org/just-transition-in-north-africa From Crisis to Transformation: What is Just Transition?https://www.tni.org/en/publication/from-crisis-to-transformation Extractivism and resistance in North Africa https://www.tni.org/en/ExtractivismNorthAfrica

Phyllis Bennis - Author, activist and director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies focusing on Middle East, U.S. wars and UN issues. She is also a fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. She joins Tavis to talk about where things currently stand six months after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.

Receive the most important news & analysis on Israel/Palestine straight to your inbox! Sign up to our newsletter, Deep Dive Daily: https://bit.ly/3LrCUxE Twitter: @pdeepdive Instagram: @pdeepdivegram   20th November 2020: A DeepDive into the Biden administration's potential foreign policy towards Palestine/Israel, the wider Middle East and further afield. Mark Seddon is live with: Chris Doyle is Director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu). Phyllis Bennis is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC, and of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. Focusing on issues related to the US policy in the Middle East and the United Nations, her books include Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. She currently serves on the boards of Jewish Voice for Peace and the Afro-Middle East Center in Johannesburg. Dr. Ghada Karmi is a leading Palestinian activist, academic and author of three books, the most recent of which is Return: A Palestinian memoir (2015). Dr. Karmi has practiced as a doctor of medicine, served as vice chair of the Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu) and was a research a fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic studies at the University of Exeter.

How are mass surveillance, biometric data, and other high-tech border measures affecting refugees and migrants? In this episode of Fixing Aid, host Alae Ismail speaks to a Latinx community organiser and migration researchers on the use of border and surveillance technology aimed at stopping refugees and migrants from crossing European and American borders. She also hears from people on the move who share what it feels like to be watched and tracked at all times.   Guests: Cinthya Rodriguez, national organiser at Mijente; Niamh Ni Bhriain, War and Pacification coordinator at the Transnational Institute; Petra Molnar, lawyer associated with the Migration and Technology Monitor and associate director of the Refugee Law Lab at York University.

In this episode, Malek Lakhal is speaking to Hamza Hamouchene about how to conduct fieldwork with very little time and how to make sure your research is available to the general public. Hamza is a London-based Algerian researcher-activist and commentator. He is the programme coordinator for North Africa at the Transnational Institute.  Hamza has a PhD in cancerology, but he made a U-turn to work on environmental justice in the Arab Region, focusing on energy and extractivism.

April 7, 2022--Loreto Rojas and Cal Winslow return with “Talking About California” and an interview with Phyllis Bennis. Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at Institute for Policy Studies, focusing on Middle East, U.S. wars and UN issues. She is also a fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. In 2001 she helped found the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and now serves on the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace.

Můžou se fosilní korporace změnit a pomoci nám zabránit klimatickému rozvratu? Nebylo by prostě jednodušší je zrušit? Budoucnost po pádu Shellu ukazuje, jak by zánik ropného giganta pomohl pracujícím, stejně jako místním lidem. Poslechněte si rozhovor s Nielsem Jongeriusem, jež působí v Transnational Institute a v koalici Future Beyond Shell. https://www.tni.org/ https://futurebeyondshell.org

Air Date 3/24/2022 Today we take a look at the desperate state of refugees fleeing war, strife and climate disruption as well as the response of governments around the world that espouse liberal platitudes of humanitarianism while hardening their borders against those seeking refuge. Be part of the show! Leave us a message at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com  Transcript BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Get AD FREE Shows and Bonus Content) Check out Democracy Decoded wherever you get your podcasts! Join our Discord server! What is Discord? SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: Fortress Europe: Who gets to come in? - The Real Story - Air Date 11-9-21 The European Union is at loggerheads with Belarus over the arrival of thousands of migrants. It alleges that President Lukashenko has created a deliberate crisis by facilitating the migrants' travel into Belarus and onwards to the country's borders Ch. 2: War in Ukraine - Humane Ukrainians & A Major Refugee Crisis - The Daily Show - Air Date 3-4-22 As Russia's war on Ukraine continues, compassionate Ukrainians come to the aid of Russian soldiers, and Trevor weighs in on the implications of how European countries are welcoming refugees. Ch. 3: Afghanistan in Freefall: Deadly U.S. Sanctions Blamed for Shocking Humanitarian Crisis - Democracy Now! - Air Date 1-14-22 As Afghanistan faces a dire humanitarian crisis, we look at how more Afghans may die from U.S. sanctions than at the hands of the Taliban. The U.S.'s attempts to block support for the new de facto government have prevented vital funding from flowing Ch. 4: Resettlement Support and Legislative Challenges Facing Afghan Refugees - The Takeaway - Air Date 2-18-22 It's been more than six months since the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Since the withdrawal, more than 76,000 Afghans have resettled across the U.S. We check in on resettlement efforts, the challenges facing Afghan refugees, and more Ch. 5: Fortress Europe - Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast - Air Date 2-2-22 In this week's episode, host Maryam Tanwir and panelist Yasmin Homer discuss the role of technology in the securitization of European borders with MEP Patrick Breyer and researcher Ainhoa Ruiz. Ch. 6: Border walls and the climate crisis w/ Nick Buxton - This Is Hell! - Air Date 11-3-21 The Transnational Institute's Nick Buxton on the report "Global Climate Wall" Ch. 7: Ilhan Omar on Ending War, Global Refugees, Russia Sanctions & Why More Saudi Oil Is Not the Answer - Democracy Now! - Air Date 3-8-22 As the U.S. considers a ban on importing Russian oil as part of sanctions for its invasion of Ukraine, senior advisers to President Biden are reportedly planning to visit Saudi Arabia to secure more oil to make up the shortfall. MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S) Ch. 9: Border walls and the climate crisis w/ Nick Buxton Part 2 - This Is Hell! - Air Date 11-3-21 Discussing the connection between climate policy and the entities who stand to profit the most by fortifying against climate refugees FINAL COMMENTS Ch. 12: Final comments on small-government conservatives' authoritarian tendencies TAKE ACTION! New way to help defeat fossil fuel allied politicians, no matter their party: Jane Fonda PAC Help Refugees Around the World:  Global Empowerment Mission International Rescue Committee Refugees International  Anera (Middle East focus) UN Refugee Agency Doctors Without Borders House Refugees in Your Home: Room for Refugees (US, UK, Canada) Refugees at Home (UK only) EDUCATE YOURSELF & SHARE 8 Ways to Solve the World's Refugee Crisis (Amnesty International) The Great Climate Migration Has Begun (NYTimes, 2020) Climate Change Refugees - the world's forgotten victims (World Economic Forum) #AfricansinUkraine (Twitter hashtag) Climate Change and Disaster Displacement (UNHCR) Refugee Environmental Protection Fund (UNHCR) Curated by BOTL Communications Director Amanda Hoffman    Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

In today's episode, we speak with Leona of the Louise Michel, a refugee rescue ship funded in part by the elusive British street artist Banksy. During the Louise Michel's last mission in the central Mediterranean in January this year, the crew witnessed the EU-supported Libyan Coastguards shot at the people they had intercepted as they tried to swim away from them.  Leona tells us all about that, as well as the Louise Michel's previous missions: one earlier this year which saw fossil fuel giant Shell help send refugees stuck on one of its oil rigs to Tunisia, and how in 2020, the Maltese authorities abandoned the Louise Michel's crew with over 130 shipwreck survivors within its search-and-rescue zone.  --- Show notes --- For more on Louise Michel, visit: mvlouisemichel.org Follow Louise Michel on Twitter:  @MVLouiseMichel For more on Banksy, check out: banksy.co.uk or check him out on Instagram. For more on Louise Michel, the French anarchist and feminist, you can find some of her writings on the Anarchist Library, here: bit.ly/3tb5xaG. Zoe Baker has a great video about her here: bit.ly/3t9s87n. And I'd really recommend this graphic novel, The Red Virgin and The Vision of Utopia, too: bit.ly/3BT2sjo. Read this written interview with Louise Michel crew member Lea from 2020 here: bit.ly/3tfTA3g. Fossil fuel giant Shell and EU maritime authorities accused of complicity in Mediterranean refugee ‘pullback': bit.ly/3vgBGjM. For more on the situation in Libya, check out episode 15 of The Civil Fleet podcast for an interview with European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights's Silvia Rojas-Castro and Lawyers for Justice in Libya's Elise Flecher. Leona mentions the Seabrid and Calibri 2 in the interview. These are two activist run reconnaissance plans, the first operated by Sea-Watch and the other by Pilotes Volontaires. Check out episode 1 of The Civil Fleet podcast for an interview with Sea-Watch's Felix about the Seabird and Moonbird planes.  Don't know what Alarm Phone is? See episodes 3 and 5.  For more on Mediterranea's Mare Jonio rescue ship, see episode 18.  Leona mentions that she was Rhib at one stage in the interview. A Rhib is an acronym for Rigid-hull Inflatable Boat - the kind of boat you'd see launched from a larger ship during rescue operations. Check out The Civil Fleet's glossary for more terms like this one: bit.ly/3Hnd2QP. For more on Europe's walls, read this 2018 report by the Transnational Institute, which points out that EU member states "have constructed almost 1,000km of walls, the equivalent of more than six times the total length of the Berlin Walls, since the nineties to prevent displaced people migrating into Europe:" bit.ly/3HlAkGJ. Get in touch: @FleetCivil info@civilfleet.com Support:  ko-fi.com/civilfleet 

In this this episode of Conjuncture, Jordan T. Camp speaks with public intellectual Arun Kundnani about racial capitalism, counterinsurgency, Islamophobia, surveillance, and national security policies in the United States and the United Kingdom. Conjuncture is a monthly web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton for the Trinity Social Justice Initiative. It features interviews with activists, artists, scholars, and public intellectuals. Taking its title from Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall's conceptualization, it highlights intellectual work engaged in struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments. Amidst a global crisis of hegemony, this web series curates conversations about the burning questions of the conjuncture. Arun Kundnani is an Associate of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam and a public intellectual. He is the author of The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror (2014), The End of Tolerance: Racism in 21st Century Britain (2007), and is currently completing a new book, Resistance is Not Enough: Radical Anti-Racism in a Neoliberal Age. Jordan T. Camp is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Social Justice Initiative at Trinity College.

Last month, the recently elected coalition government in Germany announced their initial plans to legalise cannabis for recreational use.There has understandably been a lot of excitement about this news, so on this week's episode Alfredo Pascual from Seed Innovations, Franziska Katterbach from Khiron Life Sciences, and Tom Blickman from Transnational Institute join me to discuss how the upcoming legislation may disrupt and revolutionise the recreational and medical markets within Germany and Europe on a wider scale.About Our GuestsAlfredo PascualVP of Investment Analysis, Seed Innovations Based in Germany, Alfredo is a prominent cannabis industry analyst who has been identifying opportunities and generating unique insights for businesses and investors in Europe and Latin America since 2016. He is currently VP of Investment Analysis of Seed Innovations Ltd (LON: SEED), the AIM quoted company investing in fast growing and industry leading businesses with a focus on the medical cannabis, health and wellness space. Before joining Seed Innovations, Alfredo worked as International Analyst at Marijuana Business Daily (MJBiz), the US-based business news and information resource, where he focused on covering how cannabis markets and investments were evolving internationally. Alfredo has an academic background in business and public policy.Connect with Alfredo on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alfrepTom BlickmanSenior Project Officer, Transnational InstituteTom Blickman (1957) is a Senior Project Officer at the Transnational Institute (TNI), based in Amsterdam. Since 1997, he has been working for TNI's Drugs Programme, specializing in international drug control policy and the UN conventions, drug markets, alternative development, money laundering and organised crime. More recently he is closely following cannabis regulation policies in Europe and elsewhere. Tom is a regular speaker at international policy conferences and advises on developments in the drugs field. He is co-editor of the TNI Drug Policy Briefing series.Connect with Tom on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-blickman-2941a046/Franziska KatterbachPresident, Khiron Life SciencesFranziska Katterbach is an accomplished business executive and legal expert (zugelassene Rechtsanwältin) who brings extensive experience working within Europe's emerging cannabis industry. After completing her legal studies at Universität Leipzig and Landgericht Darmstadt, Franziska joined the corporate law firm Dentons, where she was involved in high-profile deals in the cannabis sector across multiple jurisdictions. Franziska later served as Director of Legal for Canopy's European operations, before joining Khiron. With 8+ years of regulatory expertise and 4+ as business executive in the European emerging cannabis industry, Franziska has well rounded knowledge in the industry. Franziska is considered a pioneer of the medical cannabis market in Germany, working in the medical cannabis industry in Europe on executive level since the very beginning in 2016.Connect with Franziska on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/franziska-katterbach-438878a9

Air Date 11/20/2021 Today we take a look at the state of international climate negotiations and the intersection of capitalism and colonialism in the role of indigenous peoples around the world in stewarding the lands in a climate-friendly way. Be part of the show! Leave us a message at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com  Transcript BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Get AD FREE Shows & Bonus Content) BestOfTheLeft.com/Refer Sign up, share widely, get rewards. It's that easy! SHOP BOMBAS BestOfTheLeft.com/Advertise Sponsor the show! SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: Promises to Help the Climate Keep Breaking Part 1 - The United States of Anxiety - Air Date 11-15-21 We talk to journalist Elizabeth Kolbert about this history the COP Ch. 2: Is COP26 Set To End in Failure? Part 1 - TyskySour - Air Date 11-12-21 Negotiations in Glasgow are going down to the wire, yet few believe world leaders will get us anywhere near limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees. Is COP26 heading for failure? We speak to Simon Lewis. With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani. Ch. 3: Promises to Help the Climate Keep Breaking Part 2 - The United States of Anxiety - Air Date 11-15-21 Coming off of COP26, we talk to journalist David Wallace-Wells about the real cost of the climate crisis and who is paying the price. Ch. 4: COP26 Closes Out What Comes Next - The Brian Lehrer Show - Air Date 11-15-21 Negotiations at COP26 have been formalized into the Glasgow Climate Pact and already faces criticism. Julian Brave NoiseCat, climate activist, writer and fellow at New America and the Type Media Center, discusses disappointment in the agreement. Ch. 5: Is COP26 Set To End in Failure? Part 2 - TyskySour - Air Date 11-12-21 Ch. 6: Young Activists At U.N. Climate Summit 'We Are Not Drowning. We Are Fighting' - Consider This from NPR - Air Date 11-12-21 Thousands of youth activists from all over the world gathered in Scotland this week for the COP26 UN climate summit. They say climate change is already transforming their countries and that their generation has the most to lose. Ch. 7: Promises to Help the Climate Keep Breaking Part 3 - The United States of Anxiety - Air Date 11-15-21 MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S) Ch. 8: Is COP26 Set To End in Failure? Part 3 - TyskySour - Air Date 11-12-21 Ch. 9: Border walls and the climate crisis Nick Buxton - This is Hell! - Air Date 11-3-21 The Transnational Institute's Nick Buxton on the report "Global Climate Wall" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen judges a costume contest. FINAL COMMENTS Ch. 10: Final comments with an update on shifting conservative baseline syndrome MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions): Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr  Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent Activism Music: This Fickle World by Theo Bard (https://theobard.bandcamp.com/track/this-fickle-world) Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent SHOW IMAGE:  Description: At night, a white light projection on a stone monument in Glasgow, Scotland (UK) reads “Reject False Solutions”. Credit: “COP26 light projection in Glasgow by Backbone and friends” by Backbone Campaign, Flickr | License | Changes: Cropped   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Listen Anywhere! BestOfTheLeft.com/Listen Listen Anywhere! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com

The Transnational Institute's Nick Buxton on the report "Global Climate Wall" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen judges a costume contest. https://www.tni.org/en/publication/global-climate-wall

Today, we go over some key highlights from a policy commentary published by the Transnational Institute that explores other kratom bans in recent history and their outcomes, what the ECDD is taking into consideration as it considers a recommendation on kratom this week, and what are the 4 potential scenarios resulting from the ECDD's decision! Check out the commentary here: Kratom - The Creation of a Threat: A policy commentary on the WHO pre-review of kratom Check out the Everything Kratom Discord channel here! or on Reddit! r/EverythingKratom Join Robinhood here and support this podcast for free! Start investing in stocks and crypto! And please consider making a donation to directly support this podcast! Thank you all so much for listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/everything-kratom/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everything-kratom/support

Sylvia Kay and Hamza Hamouchene on the report "Towards a Just Recovery from the Covid-19 Crisis: The urgent struggle for food sovereignty in North Africa" for Transnational Institute. https://www.tni.org/en/publication/towards-a-just-recovery-from-the-covid-19-crisis

Der Kampf gegen Arbeitslose ist eine Konstante im bürgerlich-faschistoiden Österreich. Die Abwertung und Dämonisierung von arbeitslosen Menschen ist jedoch kein österreichisches Spezifikum, sondern eines, das die Klasse der Kapitalist*innen eint. Schließlich geht es um die Zerschlagung des Netzes, das es Menschen ermöglicht, ohne Lohnarbeit zu leben - wenn auch nur temporär. Studie des Transnational Institute über den Zusammenhang von EU-Waffenexporten und Fluchtursachen: https://www.tni.org/en/publication/smoking-guns Nicole Schöndorfer lebt als freie Journalistin und Vortragende in Wien. Seit 2019 gibt es ihre feministischen Inhalte auch im Audio-Format. Interesse an Werbung im Podcast? Dann sendet ein E-Mail an info@darfsiedas.atMusik: Roxy Grill 

Today we are looking at so called, "junk agroecology" and what's behind the transition towards a sustainable agricultural narrative in agroecology circles. We will dig into a report released in 2020 titled “Junk Agroecology: The corporate capture of agroecology for a partial ecological transition without social justice.”Yes, it is Food Sovereignty, Agricultural Practices, Corporate Cooption and social justice today on Dirt Radio with a special report featuring an interview with Katie Sandwell from Transnational Institute of the Netherlands (TNI) recorded by our sister show, Friends of the Earth International's Real World Radio who also wrote today's script (used under Creative Commons licence).Please email phil.evans@foe.org.au if you want to find out more about food sovereignty work, or to get involved.

Since April of 2020, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has been bringing in-the-moment updates of our work responding to community needs and addressing issues around the world through our weekly series of Facebook Live conversations. AFSC On the Issues revisits those conversations in podcast form to help you stay informed and stay engaged with our work to build peaceful and just communities. In this episode, AFSC staff members Tori Bateman, Dov Baum, and Pedro Rios are joined by the Transnational Institute’s Nick Buxton to discuss a report released by AFSC, TNI, and Mijente explores the financial campaign contributions of the leading US border security contractors and how they have shaped a bipartisan approach in favor of border militarization for more than three decades. What does this industry influence means for the future of US immigration policy and the prospects for change under President Biden? To learn more, visit AFSC online at www.afsc.org, and connect with us on social media.

Many believe that COVID-19 has exposed everything that’s wrong with decades of the world’s governments betting on militarism, competition, and wealth creation. But is a better world really possible after this crisis? Author John Feffer collected insight from dozens of the world’s leading thinkers and activists to answer this question, and he joined us to discuss the opportunity for transformative change. Offering an analysis of our current moment, collected in his book The Pandemic Pivot, Feffer shared the global issues through eight in-depth discussions with a brain trust: Green recovery, the global economy, migrants and refugees, budget priorities, and more. Feffer’s analysis offered an actionable framework that endeavors to demonstrate how equity and cooperation aren’t just nice principles—they’re survival strategies for the future of humanity. As vaccines introduce a light at the end of this pandemic tunnel, and the world imagines what we can look like after this and prevent the next crisis, this conversation is more urgent than ever before. John Feffer is director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. He is the author, most recently, of The Pandemic Pivot: A Report from the Institute for Policy Studies, The Transnational Institute, and Focus on the Global South, and Aftershock: A Journey into Eastern Europe’s Broken Dreams. He is the author of several other books, and his articles have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, USAToday, Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, and many other publications. Buy the Book: https://www.elliottbaybook.com/book/9781644210932  Presented by Town Hall Seattle. To become a member or make a donation click here. 

Janina Hirth + Markus Rhein on their article "Algorithmic assembly lines: Digitalization and resistance in the retail sector" for The Transnational Institute. https://longreads.tni.org/algorithmic-assembly-lines-digitalization-and-resistance-in-the-retail-sector

Todd Miller is the author of the books Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World (2019), Storming the Wall (2017), and Border Patrol Nation (2014). He is co-author of the recent report for the Transnational Institute "Biden's Border: The Border Industry, The Democrats, and the 2020 Elections."

In this month's episode: we know the world’s broken. Apparently we need $9 trillion to fix it. We find out how we can pay for the pandemic and a just transition with Ben Tippet of the Transnational Institute. Plus: Casino Capitalism: what really happened with the Gamestop frenzy and what does it tell us about 'investment?' You can read the Transnational Institute report here: https://longreads.tni.org/paying-for-just-transition Transcript of the show available here: https://www.taxjustice.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Taxcast_trascript_Feb21.pdf

Nas últimas semanas, tem se debatido um projeto de lei que trata da regulamentação do cultivo, pesquisa e produção de cannabis para fins medicinais. Os opositores dizem que o projeto “abre porta para as drogas”, enquanto apoiadores dizem que não há riscos e sim benefícios para milhares de pacientes que sofrem com convulsões e outras doenças. E você: é a favor ou contra? Convidados: LUCIANO DUCCI Deputado federal, é médico pediatra e relator do projeto que propõe a regulamentação do plantio da cannabis para fins medicinais e industriais. Foi prefeito de Curitiba (2010-12) e relator do orçamento da educação 2019/2020 PEDRO A. PIERRO NETO Neurocirurgião funcional, com especialidade em dor, transtornos de movimentos, epilepsia e doenças psiquiátricas tratadas com cirurgia. Prescreve cannabis para fins medicinais há mais de 6 anos, com mais de cem pacientes atendidos e em tratamento. Participa de congressos e cursos sobre o tema no Brasil e no exterior CIDINHA CARVALHO Bancária, é mãe de Clárian, portadora de síndrome de Dravet e paciente de cannabis terapêutica. Presidente da Associação Cultive, é membro da PBPD (Plataforma Brasileira de Política de Drogas) e coordenadora do núcleo de saúde do Instituto Luz do Faroeste. É a primeira mãe a obter na Justiça paulista o direito de cultivar cannabis para fins medicinais EMÍLIO FIGUEIREDO Advogado, é consultor jurídico de associações de pessoas que fazem uso terapêutico da cannabis e de iniciativas públicas e privadas que buscam a regularização da produção no Brasil. Foi aluno no programa Drug Policy Reform do Transnational Institute de Amsterdam e é mestrando no Instituto de Estudos Comparados em Administração de Conflitos da Universidade Federal Fluminense Mediação: VALÉRIA FRANÇA Jornalista com passagem por Veja, Estadão e Forbes, é autora do Blog Cannabis Inc (Folha) SERGIO FAUSTO Cientista político, é diretor da Fundação FHC

The Transnational Institute's Niamh Ni Bhriain on the crises of capital and Covid-19 under the global external border regime, and her article "The deadly politics of colonial borders under COVID-19" for ROAR. https://roarmag.org/essays/colonial-borders-covid-19/

C'est l'objet d'un nouveau rapport de l'association Pleine Mer et de Transnational Institute. Cette étude montre comment l'industrie de la pêche peut avoir un impact sur l'émergence de nouvelles routes migratoires. On a contacté Thibault Josse pour en parler, ingénieur agro-halieute et un des deux auteurs du rapport. Si le lien entre surpêche et migrations est peu familier du grand public, c'est pourtant un phénomène bien connu dans le secteur de la pêche. Non-dit et opacité n'ont rendu possible aucune véritable analyse systémique avant celle-ci. C'est ce lien que pointe le rapport. La pêche industrielle sur les côtes d'Afrique de l'ouest est une cause de migration. Les personnes migrantes, qui peuvent se retrouver à travailler dans le secteur en Europe, utilisent souvent des bateaux de pêche pour traverser la mer méditerranée. Thibault Josse, coauteur du rapport, pointe du doigt les accords de pêche avec l'Europe, et les accords bilatéraux entre les pays d'Afrique de l'ouest et d'autres pays. Il nous explique que quand un pays n'est pas capable d'exploiter au maximum ses stocks de poissons, d'autres Etats, ou même d'autres entreprises, peuvent pêcher dans la zone économique exclusive de ce pays. Il s'agit de bateaux gigantesques, pouvant atteindre plus de cent mètres, à l'image du Margiris. Ces chalutiers géants, qui ne subissent aucun contrôle sur leurs techniques de pêches ou sur les quantités de poissons ramassées, participent à l'épuisement de ces ressources. Conséquence : les filets des artisans pêcheurs d'Afrique de l'Ouest sont presque vides. Au Sénégal par exemple, où près de 20% de la population vit de la pêche, c'est toute une économie qui est menacée. Poussés à la faillite, ils sont nombreux à migrer vers l'Europe. Ce rapport, qui cite plusieurs enquêtes du Guardian ou du Globe and Mail met également en évidence des réseaux de rackets. En Irlande par exemple, certains armateurs font venir des migrants en leur faisant miroiter un visa, un travail et un salaire. Une fois arrivés, aucune des promesses ne sont tenues et une prise d'otage se met alors en place : soit la personne reste, illégalement, sans droits et avec un salaire très faible voire inexistant, soit l'armateur la dénonce à la police. Un véritable esclavage moderne. ▶ Soutenez Le Média :

Phyllis Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies (ISP), focusing on Middle East, U.S. wars and UN issues. She is also a fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. In 2001 she helped found the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and now serves on the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace. She works with many anti-war and Palestinian rights organizations, writing and speaking widely across the U.S. and around the world. She has served as an informal adviser to several top UN officials on Middle East issues and was twice short-listed to become the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Phyllis has written and edited eleven books. Among her latest is the just-published 7th updated edition of her popular 'Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.' She has also written 'Before & After: US Foreign Policy and the War on Terror' and 'Challenging Empire: How People, Governments and the UN Defy U.S. Power.' Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PARCMEDIA Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vince_EmanueleFollow Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1713FranklinSt/Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parcmedia/?... #PARCMedia is a news and media project founded by two USMC veterans, Sergio Kochergin & Vince Emanuele. They give a working-class take on issues surrounding politics, ecology, community organizing, war, culture, and philosophy.

A great global panel of activists, social movement leaders and thinkers discuss how to make this pandemic a turning point towards system change that we need not just to deliver social justice but increasingly to defend our very survival. The very insightful conversation examined what can we learn from previous major global mobilisations, how can we build cross-sectoral and intersectional movements and what strategies and tactics we need to confront entrenched corporate power and authoritarian governments? Panellists: * Thenjiwe McHarris, Movement for Black Lives (USA) *  Hakima Abbas, Assocation for Women's Rights in Development (Senegal) *  Rafeef Ziadah, Palestinian performance poet/Professor at SOAS *  Josua Mata, Secretary General, SENTRO trade union, Philippines *  Vrinda Grover, Human rights lawyer, India Moderator: Hilary Wainwright, author of A New Politics from the Left (2018) This webinar was organised by Transnational Institute with Focus on the Global South and co-sponsored by Alternative Information Development Centre.

In this podcast we discuss the work of Murray Bookchin, relating it to the experiences and debates around municipalism and wider left political practices and theory. With our guests (Blair, Hilary and Kate) we focus the discussion on the recent edited collection of Bookchin's work: The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy (Verso), edited by Debbie Bookchin and Blair Taylor. Reflecting, but going beyond, the broad range of topics addressed by Bookchin in the book, we cover a lot of ground, such as the role of the state in left politics, sources of transformative change, 'reason', 'knowledge' and politics, popular democracy, the new municipalism in Barcelona and municipal socialism in 1980s London. **Blair Taylor** Program director of the Institute for Social Ecology, a popular education center for ecological scholarship and advocacy founded in 1974. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the New School for Social Research, and has written on U.S. social movements, contemporary far-right politics, political ecology, and the history of the left. His work has been featured in Les Temps Modernes, American Studies, and City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action. He is co-editor of the Murray Bookchin anthology The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy (Verso, 2014). He lives outside Seattle, Washington, and is active with West Sound Democratic Socialists of America. **Hilary Wainwright** Co-editor, Red Pepper: www.redpepper.org.uk (if you don't yet subscribe why not look at the RED PEPPER PAY-AS-YOU-FEEL SUBSCRIPTION? go to the website and click 'subscribe' for an unmissable offer) Fellow, Transnational Institute:www.tni.org

In this episode, Jean Blaylock, trade campaigner at Global Justice Now is joined by Sharon Treat, senior attorney at the Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy in the US, Cecilia Olivet, co-ordinator of the trade and investment programme at the Transnational Institute, and Nick Dearden, director of Global Justice Now. They discuss how trade rules underpin the corporate structure of the global economy, what the Trump administration's trade agenda is, and how the pandemic could lead to a new wave of corporate court (ISDS) cases – and what we can do to change this. Music: Music: Brylie Christopher Oxley, Remnants of Effervescence

With dozens of countries having legalized medical marijuana and full legalization gaining speed across the globe, it's easy to forget how the war on drugs drove so much foreign policy for so long — and how ravaging it was for mostly impoverished communities in countless countries.That has been overwhelmingly positive — in some ways revolutionary, says Pien Metaal, a Senior Project Officer at the Transnational Institute's Drugs and Democracy program.“[Those changes] have made it possible for patients who are ill to access cannabis as a medicine,” Metaal said on The Cannabis Enigma podcast. “What we still have not seen is these benefits also going to the communities that have been so affected by its prohibition.”Of course, that is not true across the board. Some Caribbean countries “have made a real effort to involve the traditional farmers — to give them licenses, to provide for amnesty that they can become legal producers for a medical market,” turning it into a development opportunity, Metaal explained.In Uruguay, cannabis legalization was framed by the government as a human rights issue — or at least as a clash between international drug treaties and human rights obligations.In Morocco, there are efforts to find ways for traditional growers and manufacturers of hash oil to gain access to medical marijuana or wellness markets in other countries.“The treaties on drugs have forced them to criminalize their citizens because they use a certain substance,” Metaal said. “They have forced [the government] to put them in jail and take some rights away from them because of the fact that they use these drugs. So the balance between drug treaties and human rights is a very delicate one, and has not been taken into account up until now. This is something that is now starting to change.”The problem with that is “there's never been a real scientific evidence-based research on why cannabis should be a prohibited substance. It has been based on a series of assumptions that cannabis would lead to other drugs, but also that it would have effects on the morality of the people who use it” — often with explicit racist motivations and undertones.  What is the prospect of change in the international system's approach to the prohibition of cannabis? As of now, it is still listed as a Schedule I drug, which is usually categorized as having a high level of abuse and no accepted medical use.Even now that global attitudes toward marijuana are changing, “this whole system is [still] based on these assumptions,” Metaal said.Edited, produced, and mixed by Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man with technical assistance from Elana Goldberg. Music by Desca.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed like never before the perils of governments handing over our right to health and life to corporations. The privatisation of our health has made millions of people vulnerable to infectious diseases and undermined the integrated public systems needed to coordinate an effective response. This webinar brings healthcare experts together with activists at the forefront of struggles for equitable universal public healthcare from across the globe. Panelists speak about the changes that will be needed in terms of access to medicines, the pharmaceutical industry, healthcare systems, and the global governance of health. Organised by TNI and co-sponsored by AIDC, Focus on the Global South, Corporate Accountability International, People's Health Movement (PHM), Public Services International, Global Justice Now (GJN), RedLAM-Red Latinoamericana Acceso a Medicamentos, ABIA-Brazilian AIDS Interdisciplinary Association, and GTPI/Rebrip - Working Group on Intellectual Property. Panellists: • Susan George, President of the Transnational Institute and author of 'Shadow Sovereigns: How Global Corporations are Seizing Power' (2015). • Kajal Bhardwaj, health and human rights lawyer, India • Mark Heywood, Co-founder of Treatment Action Campaign, South Africa • Baba Aye, Health Office, Public Services International (PSI) • David Legge, People’s Health Movement representative

Tras dos años de negociación, México y la Unión Europea completaron la semana pasada el proceso de modernización de su tratado de libre comercio, que databa del año 2000. El nuevo TLCUEM deberá pasar por un largo proceso de ratificación pero ya levanta críticas por parte de organizaciones sociales. La versión modernizada del tratado de libre comercio entre México y la Unión Europea (UE) incluye nuevas disciplinas como energía y materias primas, desarrollo sostenible y comercio electrónico, entre otros. Otra novedad es que permite a las empresas transnacionales europeas acceder a los mercados de contratación pública de 14 estados mexicanos. Sin embargo, para la investigadora Cecilia Olivet, de la ONG Transnational Institute, con sede en los Países Bajos, esta nueva versión profundiza las asimetrías que ya establecía el primer acuerdo comercial, en vigor desde el año 2000. "No sólo lo decimos nosotros, la misma Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), de Naciones Unidas, ha recientemente estipulado que este tipo de modelo de libre comercio e inversiones no ha llevado a una diversificación de la matriz productiva en los países de la región, no ha traído conocimiento, no ha llevado a que se agregue contenido nacional a las exportaciones, no ha llevado a encadenamientos con pequeñas y medianas empresas", afirma Olivet. "Los países de América Latina se han estancado en gran parte por el modelo del libre comercio reinante en esta dependencia de una exportación de productos primarios donde el empleo que se ha generado ha sido principalmente empleo precario", agrega. Monopolios europeos Hasta el momento, algunos países, por ejemplo Francia o Alemania, habían negociado con algunos de los estados mexicanos un monopolio para sus empresas automotrices, a cambio de instalar -con beneficios fiscales y tarifas preferenciales en los servicios básicos- sus fábricas en dicho territorio. Con esta versión modernizada del TLCUEM, este monopolio se negociará ahora para todo el bloque europeo y se aplicará también en los sectores de agricultura y energías limpias, explica a RFI el economista mexicano Ignacio Martínez. "La Unión Europea, bajo el nuevo acuerdo, presiona al gobierno mexicano para que, en una entidad determinada, no pueda haber inversión que no sea más que la eurocomunitaria." Una práctica que tienen también países como Estados Unidos, Japón o Corea del Sur, precisa el coordinador del Laboratorio Análisis en Comercio, Economía y Negocios de la UNAM. Según el economista, una de las ventajas es que esto haría que aumente la inversión. Otra es que las universidades se alimentan de este tipo de proyectos, destaca: "Por ejemplo en Puebla, la inversión alemana automotriz ha provocado que haya más colaboraciones entres las universidades locales y universidades alemanas". Otra ventaja es que "se impulsa la mano de obra calificada: el trabajador automotriz en Puebla tiene un mejor ingreso que el trabajador normal en el sector manufacturero tradicional", detalla. La desventaja en cambio, subraya Ignacio Martínez, es que "no permite el desarrollo de cadenas, lo que podríamos denominar 'clusters', para la industria nacional, ya que la empresa no permite que haya desarrollo propiamente de empresas nacionales vinculadas a este sector". "Las empresas que tienen producción es porque trabajan directamente para esas empresas", añade. Tribunales privados de arbitraje Organizaciones sociales y algunos eurodiputados también critican que el nuevo TLCUEM amplíe la posibilidad de recurrir al sistema de arbitraje en tribunales privados, a los inversionistas de todos los países europeos, cuando éstos estiman que sus intereses han sido dañados. "México es el tercer país más demandado de América Latina y el Caribe y el quinto país más demandado a nivel mundial en términos de casos de arbitraje inversor/Estado", advierte Cecilia Olivet, del Transnational Institute. Con este nuevo acuerdo, México se expone a muchísimo más demandas. "El tipo de medidas políticas que pueden llevar a demandas por arbitraje son incontables: medidas en relación a la salud pública, medidas en relación a poner impuestos a determinadas empresas, medidas que toman los gobiernos para proteger el medio ambiente, por ejemplo revisando contratos que hayan dado a empresas mineras o de explotación de petróleo", detalla. "Las empresas transnacionales no tendrían derecho a demandar por ejemplo bajo la legislación nacional o internacional, solo este tipo de tratados de protección de inversiones les concede estos derechos extraordinarios que, desde nuestra perspectiva, no deberían existir", critica. Estos controvertidos tribunales privados estuvieron en el corazón de la resistencia ciudadana en Europa al famoso CETA, el acuerdo de libre comercio de la UE con Canadá.

This episode is an extract from the first in our series of webinars focused on Covid-19, which featured a presentation by Sonia Shah, author of Pandemic: Tracking contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond (2017), as well as contributions from experts on public health systems and activists on the frontlines responding to the crisis in the Global South. Images from Italy of the army unloading coffins, exhausted doctors and fearful citizens in ever more countries  shocked the world and pushed even recalcitrant politicians into action. But the real health disaster could still be ahead of us as the pandemic spreads in countries in the Global South, impoverished by decades of policies of neoliberal austerity, with weak public health systems and people already in highly precarious conditions. It will not be enough to respond at only a community or national level. How can social movements mobilise an internationalist response? Panellists:  - Sonia Shah, award-winning investigative science journalist and author of Pandemic: Tracking contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond (2017). - Luis Ortiz Hernandez, public health professor in UAM-Xochimilco, Mexico. Expert on social and economic health inequities. - Benny Kuruvilla, Head of India Office, Focus on the Global South, working closely with Forum For Trade Justice. - Mazibuko Jara, Deputy Director, Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education, helping to coordinate a national platform of civic organisations in South Africa to confront COVID-19. This webinar, organised by Transnational Institute and co-sponsored by Alternative Information and Development Centre, South Africa and Focus on the Global South/Asia, is available in full:  www.tni.org/webinars 

Esta semana en nuestra “Sección principal” regresa mi adorada “The Walking Dead” y como cada año os traigo mi opinión sobre los primeros 8 episodios de esta 10ª temporada. Además en la sección, “Rodajes malditos” os traigo el movidito rodaje de una de esas películas generacionales, clásico de la década de los 80 que es “La historia interminable”. Finalmente en la sección “¿Qué fue de?” os hablo esta semana de la presidenta del comité de planificación del Transnational Institute de Ámsterdam, filósofa y analista política, Susan George. Tiempos: Sección principal: del 00:02:48 al 06:35:35 Sección “Rodajes malditos”: del 06:35:36 al 07:31:33 Sección “¿Qué fue de?”: del 07:31:34 al 08:33:10 Presentación, dirección, edición y montaje: Asier Menéndez Marín Diseño logo Podcast: albacanodesigns (Alba Cano) Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Nick Buxton is the co-editor of The Secure and the Dispossessed: How the Military and Corporations are Seeking to Shape a Climate-Changed World and a communications consultant at The Transnational Institute, an international research and advocacy institute committed to building a just, democratic and sustainable world.   In this podcast episode, (which is PART 2 of this interview—make sure to listen to PART 1, episode 175, first!), Nick sheds light on the environmental impacts of the U.S. military-industrial complex; how an era of permanent war between countries led by our political leaders may be taking away the resources and attention needed to address the real crises that people on the grounds are facing on a day-to-day basis; and more.   Episode notes: www.greendreamer.com/176 Weekly solutions-based news: www.greendreamer.com  Support the show: www.greendreamer.com/support  Instagram: www.instagram.com/greendreamerpodcast

Nick Buxton is the co-editor of 'The Secure and the Dispossessed: How the Military and Corporations are Seeking to Shape a Climate-Changed World' and a communications consultant at The Transnational Institute, an international research and advocacy institute committed to building a just, democratic and sustainable world.   In this podcast episode, Nick shares why the prominent use of the term 'security' (such as water security, food security, border security) may be at odds with our goals to seek for climate justice; how large corporations and our government already have lesser-known plans to address climate change, but not in the ways we would want nor expect; and more.   Episode notes: www.greendreamer.com/175 Weekly solutions-based news: www.greendreamer.com  Support the show: www.greendreamer.com/support  Instagram: www.instagram.com/greendreamerpodcast

Building a new Eskom: Fully Public and Serving the People with Daniel Chavez, Sean Sweeney and Brian Ashley The crisis at ESKOM must not be used to further liberalise and privatise the energy sector. The proposal to break-up ESKOM into different companies WILL lead to greater privatisation of the energy sector. Electricity will become more expensive and jobs will be lost. Another strategy is possible and necessary. A “New Eskom” is necessary. Eskom must remain publicly owned, but it must be radically transformed and the process of corporatization and marketization that began in the late 1980s must be reversed. AIDC together with NUMSA, NUM and other trade unions, supported by Trade Unions for Energy Democracy and Transnational Institute are developing proposals for addressing the crisis of ESKOM in ways that enhance energy democracy and a just transition to a low carbon development path. With inputs from Daniel Chavez (TNI), Sean Sweeney(TUED) and Brian Ashley (AIDC)

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 (https://www.stopcorporateimpunity.org/binding-treaty-un-process/) . This episode of the State of Power podcast outlines some of the violations against people and the environment, perpetrated by Transnational Corporations in South Africa: Cases such as the massacre of protesting miners at the Marikana mine in August 2012, and ongoing attempts to evict rural communities in Pondoland from their land to facilitate titanium mining serve to underline the need for a binding international legal mechanism. The episode shows some of the efforts by local activists to hold perpetrators accountable, and briefly outlines the history of The Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity. (https://www.stopcorporateimpunity.org/binding-treaty-un-process/) Guests: Joseph Mathunjwa, President of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) Siyabonga Ndovela, Amadiba Crisis Committee Brid Brennan, Transnational Institute, Global Campaign.  Photo: ACC marching, Commemoration 21 march 2017 (https://www.facebook.com/amadibacrisiscommittee/photos/a.153939858426521/205249256628914/?type=3&theater) Credit: Amadiba Crisis Committee (https://www.facebook.com/amadibacrisiscommittee/?tn-str=k%2AF)

US President Donald Trump and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un, have completed their second denuclearization summit. At a news conference immediately following that first summit, Trump told reporters that denuclearization “will go pretty quickly.” His National Security Advisor John Bolton said on July 1 last year that the North could dismantle its weapons of mass destruction and ballistic-missile programs “in a year.” The headline in today's Washington Post is: "Trump and Kim Abruptly Cut Short Summit After Failing to Reach Nuclear Deal." The headline in the Asia Times is: "North Korea-US Summit Collapses Without Agreement." Despite good vibes between Kim and Trump, the two sides may have attempted to do too much. Was it a collapse, as described in the AT, or more of a natural end without the anticipated signing? Did they try to do too much? Israeli Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit announced today his intent to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bribery in a blockbuster decision that could decisively impact the April 9 election. Mandelblit said that Netanyahu will be indicted for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three cases. In Case 4,000, Netanyahu is alleged to have fired a Communications Ministry director-general and hired his loyalist and ex-campaign manager to ensure a government policy that improperly favored one of Netanyahu's friends. In Case 1,000, Netanyahu is accused of, and admits to, receiving a range of expensive cigars, champagne and other items. In Case 2,000, Netanyahu is accused of trying to make a deal with the publisher of Yedioth Ahronoth - a national daily newspaper in Tel Aviv - which would see the paper offer him favorable coverage in exchange for the prime minister using his influence to damage Israel Hayom, an Israeli national Hebrew-language free daily newspaper and competitor of Yedioth Ahronoth. Netanyahu's Likud party claims that this is a “witch hunt.” What does this mean for the upcoming elections in Israel and the politics of the region going forward?Journalist Jon Jeter's recent Truthout piece, "Flat Broke, Black Voters Want More Than Just Another Black President," he writes, "Cory Booker's announcement on February 1 that he is entering the 2020 presidential race brings the number of African-American Democrats seeking their party's nomination to two, making the crowded primary field the 'most diverse in history,' according to The New York Times. But while The New York Times, cable news and other liberal pundits exult in the White House bids of Booker and California's junior US Sen. Kamala Harris, African Americans, ironically enough, have not uniformly mustered nearly as much enthusiasm for either candidate." He adds, "Not since a severe financial downturn shuttered the Freedman's Bank in 1874 have African Americans lost as much of our wealth as we did during Barack Obama's eight years in office ... As African Americans reflect on their losses over the last decade, many have begun to question the loyalty of Black political leadership that is increasingly seen as complicit in covering up the crime of the century. Booker has been criticized as being a champion of charter schools, a foe of lowering prescription drug prices and a sock puppet for the same moneyed interests responsible for the subprime debacle." What's really at stake in the 2020 election, and who will and won't be the best candidate for African-Americans?GUESTS:Brian Becker — Co-host of Loud & Clear on Sputnik News. Phyllis Bennis — Fellow at the Transnational Institute in AmsterdamJon Jeter — Author and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist with more than 20 years of journalistic experience. He is a former Washington Post bureau chief and award-winning foreign correspondent.

Joining us to discuss her long history on the socialist left is Hilary Wainwright, founding member and co-editor of Red Pepper political magazine and fellow at the Transnational Institute. In this episode, which will be relevant for all leftists regardless of nationality, we discuss Wainwright’s history in the 1960’s women’s movement, the Bennite socialist left, and her attempts to democratize the Greater London Council in the 1980s. 

Wainwright’s latest book, A New Politics from the Left, focuses on doing socialist politics by way of a deep organizing model, which emphasizes building the capacities and self-activity of the masses over simply mobilizing voters. 

We discuss the notion of being “in and against the state” or what’s often referred to as the “inside-outside” strategy for democratic socialist transition. This is relevant for all socialist movements, from the Corbyn movement to the Bernie wave and beyond. 
 Check out Red Pepper here: https://www.redpepper.org.uk/ Find out more about her latest book: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/A+New+Politics+from+the+Left-p-9781509523634

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Public ownership is back on the agenda. Opinion polls show high levels of support for taking all kinds of things back into public hands, from the railways to water to energy, and the Labour party is committed to a vast expansion of public ownership. But if privatisation has failed, what kind of public ownership should replace it? As the critics of nationalisation are quick to say, British Rail wasn’t that great. What should be done differently this time? If these services were nationalised, would the state even know how to run them? And are there other ways of putting them back in public hands? Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Cat Hobbs, director of We Own It campaign, Hilary Wainwright, co-editor of Red Pepper magazine and fellow of the Transnational Institute, and Sahil Dutta, lecturer in political economy at Goldsmiths University. Enjoying the show? Tweet us your comments and questions @NEF! Produced by James Shield. Music this week is by Podington Bear, used under Creative Commons licence. The award-winning Weekly Economics Podcast is brought to you by the New Economics Foundation – the UK's only people powered think tank. Find out more at www.neweconomics.org

"Cities accumulate capital, people, aspirations, and power. But, whose power? Whose aspirations? How can we find in the city a place of possibility?" These are the questions from Laura Flanders' opening statements at the Transnational Institute's convening on Transformative Cities in Amsterdam during July 2018. Music spotlight: disco remake of Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" by Jason Eli Featuring Nathan Haines-Flute/Horns & Cherie Mathieson-vocals.  Support theLFShow

Hilary Wainwright, co-editor of Red Pepper magazine and fellow of the Transnational Institute, has been a significant figure on the left of the Labour Movement since the heyday of the GLC. Her latest book A New Politics from the Left (Polity) reflects on the recent reinvigoration of the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn, and presents a grass-roots up vision of the future that is both profoundly radical and entirely practical. She was in conversation about her book, and the future of the left in Britain, with journalist, activist and author Melissa Benn, and Alex Nunns, author of The Candidate (OR Books). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/OTG-DEC29-2017-DISTS-SMALL.mp3 This is our final, jam-packed show for 2017. Extended conversations about this year-- the notorious 017 --with media critic Janine Jackson an geopolitical analyst Gerald Horne. Headlines on progressive victories in the U.S. and abroad from Food and Water Watch, the Transnational Institute, Common Dreams and One DC.

This week on Talk Nation Radio: Climate chaos and militarism. We're joined by Nick Buxton, who is the co-editor of an important book called The Secure and the Dispossessed - How the military and corporations are seeking to shape a climate-changed world. Nick Buxton is a communications consultant, working as a publications editor and supporting online learning and support of activist scholar communities for Transnational Institute. He works actively on issues of climate change, militarism and economic justice. He has been based in California since 2008 and prior to that lived in Bolivia for four years.

Comenzamos el programa con la Llamada de Actualidad al Transnational Institute, que nos han adelantado “El negocio del rescate”, el informe más completo sobre cómo se rescataron los bancos en toda Europa. Desde Amsterdam el investigador Sol Trumbo nos habla de este análisis que revela que el rescate ha sido un negocio multimillonario para unos pocos pagado con el dinero de la mayoría. El machismo en las canciones. Ese es el segundo plato del menú del programa del miércoles. Hablamos con la musicóloga Laura Viñuelas, especializada en pop y feminismo que en 2005 puso en marcha la empresa Espora, consultoría de género para empresas y se encarga de impartir un taller para desmontar el amor romántico en un instituto de Mieres. Pop, rock, reggeatón, canción de autor, nada se escapa del discurso machista. El menú se completa con la poeta Ajo y el espectáculo que realiza junto a Judit Farrés, “Cultivando brevedades”. Micropoemas, directos, breves y crudos para tus oídos. __ Carne Cruda, el programa de radio que tú haces posible. La República Independiente de la Radio. Existimos gracias a las aportaciones de los oyentes. Difunde nuestros contenidos y si puedes: hazte productora o productor de Carne Cruda. Aquí tienes más información: http://carnecruda.es/hazte_productor/

Comenzamos el programa con la Llamada de Actualidad al Transnational Institute, que nos han adelantado “El negocio del rescate”, el informe más completo sobre cómo se rescataron los bancos en toda Europa. Desde Amsterdam el investigador Sol Trumbo nos habla de este análisis que revela que el rescate ha sido un negocio multimillonario para unos pocos pagado con el dinero de la mayoría. El machismo en las canciones. Ese es el segundo plato del menú del programa del miércoles. Hablamos con la musicóloga Laura Viñuelas, especializada en pop y feminismo que en 2005 puso en marcha la empresa Espora, consultoría de género para empresas y se encarga de impartir un taller para desmontar el amor romántico en un instituto de Mieres. Pop, rock, reggeatón, canción de autor, nada se escapa del discurso machista. El menú se completa con la poeta Ajo y el espectáculo que realiza junto a Judit Farrés, “Cultivando brevedades”. Micropoemas, directos, breves y crudos para tus oídos. __ Carne Cruda, el programa de radio que tú haces posible. La República Independiente de la Radio. Existimos gracias a las aportaciones de los oyentes. Difunde nuestros contenidos y si puedes: hazte productora o productor de Carne Cruda. Aquí tienes más información: http://carnecruda.es/hazte_productor/

Susan George is an internationally renowned political scientist and author of over a dozen widely translated books. She was born in the Midwest during the Great Depression, but moved to France in the 1960s and subsequently took French citizenship. She still lives in Paris. Susan George achieved prominence in 1976 with her first ground-breaking book, How the Other Half Dies: The Real Reason for World Hunger (available as a free download via this link). After hunger she went on to study debt and poverty, as reflected in books such as The Debt Boomerang and A Fate Worse than Debt. George is president of the board of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, an international network of scholar-activists committed to social change. Before we talked about her new book on our current predicament, Whose Crisis, Whose Future?, I asked her about the values she grew up with. Had the great collective effort made by the US in World War Two been particularly influential? [To listen to this section of the interview, click here.] Turning to her new …

In this podcast, a feature interview with activist and academic Phyllis Bennis. Phyllis Bennis has spent a lifetime working toward peace in the middle east. She is a fellow of both the Transnational Institute and the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., where she is the director of the New Internationalism Project. She specializes in  U.S. Foreign Policy Issues, particularly involving the Middle East and the United Nations. But she is watching Canada's role in Afghanistan as well. rabble.ca blogger and podcaster John Bonnar wasted no time calling her up when she arrived to speak in Toronto just before Halloween. They had a long chat, and we thought we could feature it here. Bennis started by talking about Canada's role in Afghanistan.

Early November 2008 Phyllis Bennis gave a lecture in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, about the future of the USA and the world under president Barack Obama and about her new book titled: 'Understanding the US-Iran crisis'. The Bush administration spent years threatening Iran – for its alleged nuclear ambitions, support for terrorism, and ambitions in the middle East – and war has often seemed only a step away. How did relations between the US and Iran come to be in this state? Are these dire claims even true? Is Iran in fact a serious threat? This primer provides an essential history and analysis of US-Iranian relations. Bennis's illuminating discussion responds to calls for aggression toward Iran with alternative strategies for defusing the crisis. This book is invaluable for anyone trying to prevent a new war in the Middle East. Phyllis Bennis is a fellow of the institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC and of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam.

Interview with the American author Phillys Bennis, fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC and the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. Her latest book is 'Challenging Empire. How people, governments and the UN defy US power.'