From tni.org
What does the US election mean for global justice movements? | Transnational Institute
0 1
What does Trump's victory in the US mean for social movements worldwide? How will it change US foreign policy and the trajectory of US imperialism? Will it strengthen far-right forces globally? What new challenges and opportunities does it pose to movements fighting for social and environmental...
on Thu, 10AM
From tni.org
How to Kill an Entire Country | Transnational Institute
0 1
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. While much attention has been given to the devastating effects of the war, little is known about the sanctions regime inflicted against the Iraqi people, which predates the 2003 invasion by over a decade. In this...
on Mon, 2AM
From tni.org
Repackaging Imperialism | Transnational Institute
0 0
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) claims to respect the rights of migrants. But our research shows links between the IOM and serious human rights violations perpetrated against migrants in the Balkans, where its presence is overwhelmingly funded by the EU. Through its...
on Oct 26
From tni.org
Open Letter: Frontex's 20th anniversary should also be its last | Transnational Institute
0 0
October 26, 2024, will mark the 20th anniversary of Frontex, the EU’s border agency. It should also mark the last. In this letter, 85 civil society groups and organisations call for the abolition of Frontex.
on Oct 25
From tni.org
Contra el autoritarismo y el neoliberalismo en Venezuela | Transnational Institute
0 1
A principios de setiembre de 2024, varios investigadores y asociados del Transnational Institute mantuvieron una conversación con Edgardo Lander, un Fellow del TNI con una larga trayectoria académica en las ciencias sociales y de militancia en la izquierda latinoamericana. El objetivo de esta...
on Oct 8
From tni.org
At what cost? Funding the EU’s security, defence, and border policies, 2021–2027
0 0
A guide for civil society on how EU budgets work
on Oct 4
From tni.org
The Transnational Institute (TNI) seeks an OPERATIONS COORDINATOR | Transnational Institute
0 0
Join our team as an Operations Coordinator. We're seeking an organised and hands-on professional to ensure our organisation runs smoothly. If you thrive on efficiency and enjoy collaboration, we want to hear from you.
on Oct 3
From tni.org
0 1
Even a global crisis can provide opportunities for fairer, freer and better ways of organising our world. But too often they can simply become moments to further entrench power, hegemony and undue influence. Unfortunately, as history has demonstrated, global policy making has often shifted in...
on Aug 12
From tni.org
Global Climate Wall | Transnational Institute
0 0
This report finds that the world’s biggest emitters of green house gases are spending, on average, 2.3 times as much on arming their borders as they are on climate finance. This figure is as high as 15 times as much for the worst offenders. This “Global Climate Wall” aims to seal off powerful...
on Aug 2
From tni.org
IGNITE! | Transnational Institute
0 0
Join leading global activists and thinkers, dreamers and doers to chart a path towards a society built on justice, equity, democracy, peace, and liberation. TNI celebrates its 50th anniversary with a festival of radical ideas!
on Jul 19
From tni.org
Transnational Institute | Ideas into Movement
0 0
The Transnational Institute (TNI) is an international research and advocacy institute committed to building a just, democratic and sustainable planet. For more than 40 years, TNI has served as a unique nexus between social movements, engaged scholars and policy makers.
on Jun 28
From tni.org
A transition to where? | Transnational Institute
0 0
Saudi Arabia's national oil company, Aramco, is proof of a major shift that has taken place in the control of world oil over recent decades: the seemingly unstoppable rise of national oil companies (NOCs) run by governments in the Middle East, China, Russia and other large oil-producing states...
on Jun 25
From tni.org
Framing Palestine | Transnational Institute
0 0
An alternative approach to understanding Palestine – one that is framed by the wider region and the Middle East’s central place in our fossil fuel-centred world.
on Jun 24
From tni.org
Partners in Crime | Transnational Institute
0 0
Since the attacks of 7 October, the EU has provided political cover and material support for Israel. This has continued through almost eight months of unrelenting bombardment with almost 40,000 people killed, the forced displacement of 2.3 million people, the fastest descent into starvation of...
on Jun 5
From tni.org
Energy, Power and Transition | Transnational Institute
0 0
The fossil fuel based energy system has shaped capitalism and our geopolitical order. Our 12th State of Power report unveils the corporate and financial actors that underpin this order, the dangers of an unjust energy transition, lessons for movements of resistance, and the possibilities for...
on May 22
From tni.org
Under the Radar | Transnational Institute
0 0
In 2003, the EU deployed its first-ever foreign mission to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. In the 20 years since then it has undertaken more than 40 operations across Europe, Africa and Asia with 24 currently active, 13 of which are civilian, 10 of which are military and are the focus...
on May 22
From tni.org
Settled Habits, New Tricks: Casteist Policing Meets Big Tech in India
0 0
Big Tech is reinforcing and accelerating a system of caste-based discrimination in India and reinforcing the power and impunity of its police.
on Apr 23
From tni.org
Poder digital | Transnational Institute
0 0
Las grandes empresas tecnológicas han concentrado un enorme poder económico con la complicidad de los Estados, lo que ha redundado en una mayor vigilancia, una espiral de desinformación y el debilitamiento de los derechos de los trabajadores. En nuestro informe Poder digital, publicado con...
on Apr 8
From tni.org
Digital Capitalism | Transnational Institute
0 0
AI and digitalisation has become a topic of everyday discussion and debate, but what are its implications for activists fighting for social and environmental justice? This six week course will explore what digital capitalism is, how and by whom is being shaped, its implications for our economy,...
on Mar 29
From tni.org
Beating the Climate Clock | Transnational Institute
0 0
This article explores how organised labor, citizens, and the state can play a transformative role in shaping a low-carbon future.
on Mar 28
From tni.org
Facilitating energy flows, containing humans | Transnational Institute
0 0
Portrayed as a ‘green revolution’, European investments in renewables are extracting energy and profits, while bypassing local communities, strengthening authoritarian governments, increasing indebtedness and privatising economies.
on Mar 2
From tni.org
Dual Power | Transnational Institute
0 0
The failure of a market-led clean energy revolution to either end fossil-fuel use or deliver equitable access to energy requires a dual strategy of confronting fossil-fuel capital and rapidly scaling up public renewables. The experience of the Minnesota valve turners, the Strike MoMA campaign...
on Feb 29
From tni.org
Socialising energy | Transnational Institute
0 0
To regain lost momentum for an energy transition, climate and energy justice campaigners can learn from Berliners’ victorious referendum in support of a radical expropriation housing in 2021. This not only followed a strategy that put the costs on the corporations rather than people, it also...
on Feb 23
From tni.org
Energy revolution | Transnational Institute
0 0
Energy transformations require going beyond technological change to rethinking our entire energy model so that it strengthens community control, minimises waste, increases access to healthy food and clean water, and regenerates our environment. Across Latin America, countless communities are...
on Feb 20
From tni.org
State-Run Oil Companies and the Energy Transition | Transnational Institute
0 0
Colombia’s government is attempting through its state-owned oil company, Ecopetrol, to manage the decline of its oil extraction and to invest in transition to renewable energy. Its path to an energy transition is complex, but it has far more potential than a private-sector led model to be...
on Feb 16
From tni.org
Decarbonising Electricity | Transnational Institute
0 0
Renewable energy private firms are heralded as planetary saviours, yet in both the global North and South, the private-sector model is concentrating corporate power, undermining decarbonisation and dispossessing people of land and power. Yet the energy transition also opens up new possibilities...
on Feb 15
From tni.org
Power-off | Transnational Institute
0 0
Big Oil has been the target of activists for more than two decades as the principal blockage to effective climate action. TNI interviewed two leading climate activists and researchers involved in the campaign against French multinational Total for their assessment of the campaigns and the...
on Feb 14
From tni.org
Negotiating a global energy crisis on our stairwell | Transnational Institute
0 0
Lebanon’s unprecedented economic and energy crisis may have prompted an explosion in small-scale solar energy systems and been heralded as an example of decentralised energy revolution, but a closer look shows it also widened inequality and divided communities. The solution to energy crises is...
on Feb 12
From tni.org
Who profits from the green energy rush? | Transnational Institute
0 0
Derisking is touted as the panacea for delivering finance for expanding renewable energy in the global South, but the experience of renewable energy projects in Senegal and Namibia shows that foreign investors are being furnished with excessive protections from risk with all the financial,...
on Feb 9
From tni.org
Power switch | Transnational Institute
0 0
Energy based on fossil fuels is at the heart of a capitalist system that has concentrated power and wealth and threatens life on Earth. For our opening essay, TNI brought together an expert on Big Oil in the Middle East, an academic and activist working for a just energy transition, and a...
on Feb 8
From tni.org
No More Business as Usual | Transnational Institute
0 0
Almost 100 days in to Israel’s genocidal war on Palestine, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) convened in the Hague on 11 and 12 January following proceedings brought by the Republic of South Africa against the State of Israel under the 1948 Genocide Convention. The Convention, which...
on Jan 23
From tni.org
Ideas into movement | Transnational Institute
0 0
If you enjoy our work, please consider making a donation. No amount is too small. Your contribution will ensure our independence and sustain the Transnational Institute's mission: strengthening international social movements with rigorous research, reliable information, sound analysis and...
on Dec 21
From tni.org
“All Roads Lead to Jerusalem” | Transnational Institute
0 0
Hebron, a laboratory for both technology and violence, reflects the Israeli occupation's impact on daily life, with sterilized roads, military checkpoints, and settler violence defining the landscape. This journey unveils the complex layers of trauma, dispossession, and dehumanization,...
on Dec 19
From tni.org
Markets, power, and potatoes | Transnational Institute
0 0
Despite Egypt's substantial agricultural sector, it grapples with severe food insecurity, relying heavily on volatile global wheat imports. Climate change exacerbates threats to agriculture, impacting small-scale farming in North Africa. High poverty rates, worsened by the 2016 economic crisis,...
on Dec 15
From tni.org
An ocean drowning in capital | Transnational Institute
0 0
This issue brief critically analyses Guyana's ocean economy. Focused on oil and gas, it explores the three circuits of capital, emphasising the severe impacts of the booming oil and gas industry on marine environments and coastal communities. Through interviews, research, and consultation with...
on Dec 13
From tni.org
Digital Ecosocialism | Transnational Institute
0 0
We can no longer ignore the role of Big Tech in entrenching global inequality. To curtail the forces of digital capitalism, we need an ecosocialist Digital Tech Deal.
on Nov 9, 2023
From tni.org
Israel’s war on Gaza | Transnational Institute
0 0
Since the deadly attacks by militant group Hamas on 7 October, Israel has launched an indiscriminate bombing campaign of the besieged enclave of Gaza and imposed collective punishment on its 2.3 million residents cutting off water, food and vital fuel supplies – acts that constitute war crimes...
on Nov 3, 2023
From tni.org
Green Hydrogen in Morocco: Just transition or Greenwashing Neocolonialism? | Transnational Institute
0 0
Morocco’s heavy reliance on imported fossil fuels for over 90% of its energy needs makes securing domestic energy supplies a top priority. Yet, the country's plans to export more than 70% of its green hydrogen production to Europe by 2050 raise questions about this commitment. In Guelmim-Oued...
on Nov 2, 2023
From tni.org
Cannabis policy in Thailand – a way forward | Transnational Institute
0 0
Last year on 9 June 2022 the Thai government implemented what can be considered a u-turn in cannabis policy. After decades of strict control the government removed the cannabis plant from the list of controlled narcotics. The Minister of Public Health even handed out one million seedlings and...
on Oct 30, 2023
From tni.org
Climate crossfire | Transnational Institute
0 0
NATO’s goal of 2% spending of GDP on the military will accelerate climate breakdown by diverting billions of dollars from climate finance and increasing greenhouse gas emissions. This year alone, NATO members spent $1.26 trillion on their militaries. This report shows that this could have paid...
on Oct 29, 2023
From tni.org
Blue Finance: How much debt can the ocean sustain? | Transnational Institute
0 0
Conservation finance claims that the climate and biodiversity crisis must be solved through private financial investors. But can debt save the oceans? This brief looks at what is taking place in bond markets, including blue and sustainability-linked bonds, as well as debt swaps. Although most...
on Oct 19, 2023