Mass media
Vulcan-economics
IPN News coverage
Caroline Boin discusses the economic impact of the Icelandic volcano on trade and food security
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Social activists celebrate 10 years of flagship movement
IPN News coverage
Alec van Gelder analyses the World Social Forum
Copyright piracy has made it expensive to produce our films
IPN Opinion article
Africa’s creative industries could be great success stories but they are held back by weak copyright protection.
Ecuador wants money not to drill
IPN News coverage
Alec van Gelder comments on a proposal by Ecuadorian President, Rafael Correa, that his country should be paid not to extract oil from the YasuníAmazon reserve.
Food security in East Africa
IPN News coverage
On World Food Day (16 October), Alec van Gelder discusses the drought in East Africa, and how African governments' trade restrictions inhibit food security
East Africa's drought
IPN News coverage
Kendra Okonski discusses how government policy exacerbated the drought in East Africa in late 2009
Overrated: Naomi Klein
IPN Opinion article
Over the past decade, the Canadian writer Naomi Klein has been catapulted from success to success. The author of two best-selling books - No Logo (2000) and The Shock Doctrine (TSD) (2007) - she ranked number 11 on a list of "top global intellectuals", compiled by Prospect and Foreign Policy magazines. The New Yorker went even further, describing her as "the most visible and influential figure on the American Left".
In contrast to the ranting of many anti-trade, anti-business pundits, Klein adopts a more gentle and beguiling manner. But her views are no less absurd, coloured as they are by statist twaddle and pacifist invective.
