Long-term Middle East observer and TNI fellow Phyllis Bennis is one of the most insightful analysts of Israel’s attacks on Gaza:

Richard Falk, professor of international law at Princeton University, is UN special rapporteur for the Occupied Palestine Territories. He was recently detained by Israel who refused to allow him to undertake his work in Gaza and deported him.

From the ashes of Gaza
Tariq Ali
In the face of Israel's latest onslaught, the only acceptable alternative is a single state for Jews and Palestinians alike, in which the exactions of Zionism are repaired.

The Coming Capitalist Consensus
Walden Bello
Economic and political elites from Prime Minister Gordon Brown to Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz are converging on Global Social Democracy as a solution to the current economic crisis. But we need more than better social management of the current financial system: we should aspire to participatory democratic control of both the national and global economy.

A revolution without borders: reappraising Bolivia’s crisis
Samuel Grove and Pablo Navarrete
Western commentators tend to dismiss internal conflicts in Bolivia as signs of a “failed state”. This helps obscure the “threat of a good example,” in other words important economic and political democratic changes that the Bolivian government is daring to introduce despite opposition from conservative elites.

Bases, empire and global response: Introduction
Catherine Lutz
There are over nine hundred US military bases around the world, which have a devastating political, environmental, and economic impact on the surrounding communities across the globe. This free downloadable introduction from the book traces the network of US bases, and describes the campaigns to hold the US accountable for the damage its bases cause in the host countries.

EU Land Policy and the Right to Food
Pascal Bergeret
EU Land Policy Guidelines developed in 2004 contain clear and progressive recommendations to governments and donors to develop policies that defend small-scale family agriculture, and prioritise participation of organisations and movements of poor landless and land-insecure in developing land policies. Although formally endorsed at the highest levels of EU governance (Commission, Council and Parliament), the lack of promotion of the guidelines shows that these guidelines are not actually owned by the EU system and many member countries.

El Gueto de Gaza y la hipocresía occidental
Tariq Ali
La única solución aceptable a este conflicto es un único estado, para israelitas y palestinos, en el cual los crímenes del sionismo puedan al fin ser reparados.
Véase también Los crímenes de guerra de Israel, por Richard Falk y comentario de John Berger

La cooperación internacional financia una paz de monocultivos en un ambiente de militarización en Colombia
Laia Bertran Casanellas y Moritz Tenthoff
El actual gobierno del presidente Álvaro Uribe Vélez ha impulsado, con el apoyo de la cooperación internacional, un modelo de producción que beneficia los intereses de mercado global y que se sostiene en el desplazamiento forzado, las violaciones sistemáticas de los derechos humanos y la militarización de la vida civil.

Más tropas, y más debate sobre Afganistán
Entrevista con Mariano Aguirre
El debate sobre Afganistán en estos momentos consiste en tres cuestiones fundamentales: negociar con la insurgencia, la estrategia de construcción del Estado y el papel de Pakistán.