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Written by Benjamin Dangl
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Monday, 22 February 2010 |
 On a pleasant autumn day in 1890 the Cuauhtémoc brewery was founded in Monterrey, Mexico. This brewery, which also specialized in ice production, went on to become Mexican Economic Development Inc. (FEMSA), brewing such beers as Dos Equis, Tecate and Sol. Recently the Dutch brewing giant Heineken bought FEMSA, bringing over half of the world’s beer production into the hands of just four mega-corporations. One Mexican columnist wrote of the merger in La Jornada, “Just a bit more globalization and we will all be lost.” |
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Written by John Lasker
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Thursday, 18 February 2010 |
 Rwandan Soliders in Congo |
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Written by Sandy LeonVest
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Wednesday, 17 February 2010 |
 When officials in Marin County, California announced they would form their own public power agency in order to offer residents a cleaner energy mix than the state’s mega-utility, Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation (PG&E), local community activists were glad. |
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Written by Democracy Now!
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Wednesday, 17 February 2010 |
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Written by Jason Hickel
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010 |
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 ‘Environmental determinism’ – the theory that Africa’s development has been hindered as a result of ‘the environmental conditions that Africans inhabit’ – does not accurately explain Africa’s poverty. Environmental determinism is both ahistorical and apolitical: "Poverty is not a problem of nature, it is a problem of power." To tackle the real issues behind Africa’s slow development and poverty would mean to go against Western economic interests and to radically change the world system in which we exist.
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