The food crisis in the poor world and the problems of overconsumption and waste in the richer world cannot be resolved without addressing the global corporate food system. This is the real root cause, says Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

War on Want condemns the Prime Minister’s ‘Business Call to Action’ on global poverty, for including corporations which have been responsible for deepening global poverty.

The Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) has lost an appeal to keep secret its meetings with business lobbying group the Confederation of British Industry. John Oates discusses the implications.

Naomi Klein once again provides us with an engaging and easy to read account of the rise and rise of neoliberalism. However, her limited historical and analytical scope left Becca Fisher disappointed.

What more can the government shut down, asks George Monbiot. Oh yes, doctors’ surgeries.

Despite the recent introduction of the Corporate Manslaughter Act, it remains virtually impossible for a company director whose negligence causes the death of a worker to be jailed. This needs to change, says the Morning Star

Becca Fisher looks behind the Scenes of the Arab-British Chamber of Commerce (A.B.C.C)

The Iraq war was never about buying Iraq’s oil, says Tom Mills, it was about selling it. The international oil corporations are hanging in there for the biggest prizes.

Corporate Europe Observatory reports on how industry is using the European Biofuels Technology Platform (EBTFP) to push for a bigger guaranteed market in biofuels, to the detriment of the environment and the world’s poor.

Prem Sikka contends that the financial crisis is a systemic one and so institutional reforms are essential.

The ALTER-EU report "Secrecy and corporate dominance - a study on the composition and transparency of European Commission Expert Groups" reveals that industry controls a number of the Commission’s most controversial Expert Groups, including advisory groups on issues such as “biotechnology”, “clean coal” and “car emissions”.

The World Development Movement reports on a successful campaign to stop the Asian Development Bank from financing an open-cast mine in Bangladesh.

The Higher Education Funding Council wants loyalty from academics to their institutions. Alexandre Borovik suggests that academics should be loyal above all to their disciplines and their communities.

Schnews is not too hopeful that the ‘disastrous’ opening of Terminal 5 will do anything to halt massive growth in air travel. The chaos at Terminal 5 is a mere blip for the monstrous British Airways.

It started with an article on a private security company in Bosnia. Solomon Hughes then became drawn into an investigation which was to expose the ever growing profits made from the privatisation of war.

Corporate tax dodging places a greater burden on those least able to pay. It’s time we made the multinationals play by new rules, says Prem Sikka

SchNews looks at the increasing corporate control over seeds, and some of the initiatives to bypass that control.

Chris Grimshaw goes on the trail of toxic contamination on commercial jet airliners. He finds few people ready to answer his questions.

The European Transparency Initiative, set up to improve the transparency of lobbying of the EU, is in danger of creating a lobbying register that would achieve nothing of substance, write the the steering committee of ALTER-EU in an open letter to EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barrosso.