Martin Kirk

Martin Kirk works for /The Rules, a worldwide network of activists, artists, writers, farmers, hackers, spiritualists and dreamers, linking up, pushing the global narrative in a new direction. Follow him on Twitter @martinkirk_ny.

Op-Ed

Growing, Growing, Gone: Transforming the Global Economy Before It’s Too Late

If the rules of the growth-oriented system are to be changed, we cannot expect the system to autocorrect. We must change it.

By: Alnoor Ladha &; Martin Kirk ,; Truthout

March 14, 2016

Op-Ed

Beware the Best of Times

The UN, large corporations and NGOs want us to believe poverty has been halved in the last 15 years. Are their claims justified?

By: Martin Kirk ,; Truthout

February 3, 2015

Op-Ed

From Buy Nothing Day to Independence Day

We need to reframe Buy Nothing Day and include the Global South in the international day of boycott against multinational corporations.

By: Martin Kirk &; Alnoor Ladha ,; Truthout

November 26, 2014

Op-Ed

World Versus Bank: The Return of the World Bank and the People’s Resistance

Farmers' groups and peasant movements in developing countries, and think tanks and activist groups globally, are uniting behind a new resurgence against the World Bank.