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    Reclaiming public water 10 years after the 'Water War'

    The Reclaiming Public Water (RPW) Network held its first global strategy seminar since the network was launched in autumn 2005. See the inspiring and informative video debate amongst global social movement leaders as they assess progress and...

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  • Venezuela's CANTV: What should a 21st century "socialist” telecommunications company look like?

    Venezuela's revolution has often been tied to the slogan “Socialism in the 21st Century.” What might that might mean concretely in changes under way in the renationalised state telecommunications company, CANTV?

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  • Ending the US War in Afghanistan

    The recent civilian casualties demonstrate, for any who doubted it,  that this is a war against a vast population of Afghanistan, and the only way to stop killing civilians is to stop the killing. That means to stop all offensive actions and...

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  • Perspectives on regional integration

    The current paradigmatic crisis needs to be dealt with at the regional level. In this respect, Latin American movements have already mobilised and placed different models of development and integration at the centre of their struggle. However,...

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  • Countering illicit and unregulated money flows

    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...

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Articles

  • Should the EU subsidise Israeli security?
    Ben Hayes

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

  • Russia's failure in the Olympic games
    Boris Kagarlitsky

    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.

  • Reciprocity!
    Saul Landau

    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!

  • China Lassoes its Neighbors

    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.

  • Israeli construction in East Jerusalem threatens renewed peace talks
    Phyllis Bennis

    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.

  • Equity: the unaddressed agenda
    Praful Bidwai

    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.

  • Department of Defense, Inc.
    Saul Landau
     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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Reports

  • ‘The Crisis’ and the Crises of Global Capitalism - Challenges for, and Alternatives from 'The South’
    Dot Keet

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

  • The Statistics Bazaar
    Ricardo Vargas

    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.

  • Prohibition, a backwards step
    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

  • The World Crisis and Beyond - Building a New Global Solidarity

    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.

  • Countering illicit and unregulated money flows
    Tom Blickman

    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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