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  • The inclusion of Israel in the European Security Research Programme undermines the EU's commitment to even-handedness in the Middle East.

  • The authorities are looking for scapegoats for failure of the Russian team at the Olympics, but what is going on in sports is only an example of what is going on in other spheres of life - neoliberalism yields the same results no matter where it is applied.

  • The CIA has backed some 600 documented attempts against Castro, while there have been no Havana-backed plots against U.S. Presidents. Should Cuba put Washington on its terrorist list? Long Live Reciprocity!

  • The China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA), went into effect on 1st of January this year. For China, the benefits are clear, but Southeast Asia will be paying a big price for a bad deal.

  • Vice President Joe Biden is in the Middle East this week to promote restarting of the stalled peace talks, but the talks will not lead to anything unless the starting point is equality.

  • India's Finance Minister's first budget has failed to seize an opportunity to raise social spending and reduce In­dia’s obscene rich-poor, inter-sectoral and geographical inequalities.

  • Nelson Valdes

    Instead of Pentagon fighting healtcare for the lion's share of US budget, introducing a National Defense Medicare bill, lodged inside the Pentagon budget, would assume health care as just one more task in the unending challenge of defending our besieged nation.

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  • Alternative socieconomic strategies implemented by countries and peoples of the South could serve as a model for global alternatives to the globalised capitalism.

  • The drugs scene in Colombia is characterized by the fact that it is dominated by a confusion of insufficiently supported statistics and speculative diagnoses which produce policies that reflect this chaos.

  • Diana Esther Guzmán, Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes

    In December 2009, the Congress in Colombia passed a constitutional reform that prohibits the consumption and possession of certain quantities of drugs for personal use, that had previously been legal in the 1991 Constitution. This regressive step is unlikely to reduce consumption and will probably increase overcrowding which plague some of the country’s major prison centres

  • Neoliberal market capitalism has dragged the world into a crisis which
    threatens human civilisation. Climate destruction, resource wars, and
    the replacement of democracy by an oligarchy face us if we don't act
    now to reduce the burden we place on our planet and reorganise society
    on a more egalitarian  basis.

  • Since its beginnings in 1989, the international anti-money laundering regime has not worked as well as intended. After two decades of failed efforts, experts still ponder how to implement one that does work. A bolder initiative is required at the United Nations level, moving from recommendations to obligations, and fully engaging developing nations.

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