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The Political Consequences of Stagnation

Technocratic Keynesian initiatives are not a progressive solution to the world economic crisis – they must be part of a broader vision and program.

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A Burning Wake-Up Call

Russian authorities and much of the Russian public have pretended up to now that there were no costs to privatisation of forests and that there was no climate crisis. We have to hope this year's fires and heatwave causes a change in policy.

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European Union: most anti-democratic and neoliberal in history

At the Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM) in October, Asian governments should not take any lessons on democracy or economics from the European Union. We have to make common cause between Asian and European social movements, because we are all losing out...

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Paris: local authorities regain control of water management

The President of Paris' remunicipalised water utility tells the inspiring story of how water was taken back into public hands, and why this has prompted a major expansion in reinvestment, public participation, and international solidarity...

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The Human Toll of the Drug War: A Pending Issue

Driven by poverty to make ends meet many small drug sellers' are targeted by harsh drug policies, yet their persecution does nothing to tackle the root cause of drug-related crime or addiction.

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Articles

The EU Security-industrial Complex

Ben Hayes

The EU approach to security is starting to eclipse the rule of law, with very little consideration of human rights.
Floods for Pakistan; Floods of Money For its Leader

Tariq Ali

As images of Pakistan coping with the crisis and of its destitute people were being shown on European television, a French air force helicopter was transporting the richest man in Pakistan to his most extravagant European property, a 16th century chateau.
Revenge of the Deficit-Haters

Saul Landau

Ironically, the loudest complainers about paying taxes become the most eloquent advocates of spending more on the military.
The equal and opposite effect

Praful Bidwai

We have never before witnessed such a huge multi-billion rupee racket as the Commonwealth Games in Delhi. Every brick and steel bar that goes into the facilities is lubricated with bribes.
Is Africa still being looted?

Patrick Bond

African elites, together with the West and now China, are still making Africans progressively poorer, thanks to the extraction of raw materials.
Mining for El Salvador's Gold... In Washington

Manuel Perez Rocha

An international tribunal gives the green light to a lawsuit brought by two companies attempting to overcome strong public and government resistance to their destructive gold mining.
New economics for a new administration

Walden Bello

A new government in the Philippines offers the country a rare window to fundamentally shift away from failed economic policies, subordinate to neoliberal ideology and the pre-eminance of illegitimate foreign debtors.

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Reports

Report: GTZ-TNI Southeast Asia Informal Drug Policy Dialogue, Bangkok

Final report on the Southeast Asian Informal Drug Policy Dialogue, an initiative of TNI and the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), that took place in Bangkok, 2010.
Lawyers, Guns and Money: Wall Street Lawyers, Investment Bankers and Global Financial Crises

Tom Reifer

Over the last two centuries corporate lawyers and investment bankers have been central to the undemocratic consolidation of private corporate power.
Assumptions in the European Union biofuels policy: frictions with experiences in Germany, Brazil and Mozambique

David Fig
Jennifer Franco
Lucia Goldfarb
Les Levidow, Mireille Hönicke, Maria Luisa Mendonça

EU biofuels policy is based on the assumption that it will lead to greenhouse gas savings, energy security and rural development, however in-depth research in Germany, Brazil and Mozambique reveals fundamental contradictions between EU policy assumptions and practices in the real world.
A Matter of Substance

Ernestien Jensema

This paper discusses the “substance-oriented approach” Dutch authorities implemented to to scare off potential small-scale cocaine smugglers. The focus was on the drugs, rather than the couriers, and on incapacitating the smuggling route, rather than deterrence by incarceration.
Argentina: Reform on the way?

Graciela Touzé

In August 2009, the Argentina Supreme Court declared legislation criminalizing drug possession for personal consumption as unconstitutional. This briefing discusses the background of that decision, the small steps taken since, but argues that there is still much to do before a genuine reform agenda can be implemented.