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Global Outlook
Remembering Tiananmen
Chaohua Wang
Although the young generations are unaware of the events of 1989, the officially imposed silence cannot prevent the commemoration of the mass political movement that was genuinely interested in democracy, not in overthrowing the government. Chaohua Wang remembers the events leading to Tiannanmen Square.
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Wishful thinking clouds independent assessment in UN World Drug Report
TNI press briefing, 26 June
UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa claims that there is a clear correlation between UN-led drug control efforts and a perceived 'recession' in the drug economy. The World Drug Report, however, fails to document the existence of a recession. Other market studies also fail to detect any significant impact of drug control efforts.
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Life after Putin
Boris Kagarlitsky
With Vladimir Putin the only official in Russia with real national popularity and authority, the country's bureaucrats are doing their utmost to extend his term of office in the hope that this will save them from cataclysms in future.
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Left balance-sheet
Praful Bidwai
India's Left Front has completed 30 years in power in West Bengal - a monumental achievement. Never before has a political alliance, leave alone an ideology-driven coalition, governed any Indian state for so long.
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For a Radical Ethics of Equality
Ezequiel Adamovsky
One of the biggest shortcomings of the left tradition is to be found in the lack of an ethical dimension to political action. This essay attempts to analyse the reasons behind this inherited ethical vacuum and its impact on left practices.
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The 'Black Ops' of America
Trevor Paglen interviewed by Oscar Reyes
The US military spends $30 billion annually on classified military programmes, ranging from spy satellites to 'extraordinary rendition'. These secret 'black operations' leave a mark on our everyday landscapes and legible traces in public data.
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Never Mind The Baluch
Ben Hayes
While Pakistan and Iran terrorise their Baluchi minorities, the British government has designated the Baluchistan Liberation Army as 'terrorist'.
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US naval call gives India sinking feeling
Praful Bidwai
The arrival of a US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in Chennai has exposed a yawning gap between India's non-aligned foreign policy and its practice of cultivating a close military and political relationship with the US.
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Lebanon, Gaza, Iraq: three crises
Fred Halliday
The explosion of violence in Lebanon and Palestine is the culmination of long-term shifts in the balance of power between states and armed groups in the Middle East. It is ever more clear that the outcome in Iraq will be decisive for the region's future.
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A Farewell to Agreement
Boris Kagarlitsky
Increasing diplomatic failures (G8, WTO talks, EU constitution) are no more than the secondary symptoms of the general crisis of globalisation and the self-destruction of the new capitalist order created at the beginning of the 1990s.
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Blame the puppet
Saul Landau
By blaming the Iraqi government - a puppet of the US - for failure to make progress, Hilary Clinton has shown she has adopted the Bush logic.
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J.Lo investigates the Juarez murders
Saul Landau and Sonia Angulo Chaidez
The mass murders of women in Juarez have origins in the dissolution of social fabric brought by globalisation, not the individual morality, as J.Lo suggests, but her movie will at least make millions of movie goers aware of the tragedy.
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A new nuclear reaction
John Gittings
Margaret Beckett's speech on non-proliferation was a departure from Britain's traditional stance. Does this signal a new Brown-era approach?
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