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Editor's pick: Articles of the week

Obama's policy on Iran: video interview
Phyllis Bennis
Barack Obama's acknowledgement of the need to offer Iran a security guarantee against a possible US invasion puts him on a radically different course from Hillary Clinton, although his approach to Pakistan is still highly militaristic.

 
The great kidney bazaar
Praful Bidwai
The kidney transplantation racket unearthed near Delhi shows the costs of treating human organs like inanimate commodities when there's a huge disproportion between the power of recipient and donor.
 

The Gaza wall comes tumbling down
Phyllis Bennis
The collapse of the Gaza-Egyptian border wall begins power shifts in the international, regional, and internal Palestinian political scenes which could have both positive and dangerous consequences.

 
Rethinking political parties
Hilary Wainwright
The membership and influence of political parties is declining throughout the western world, and most quickly in Britain. Hilary Wainwright examines the role of the party in transformative politics and asks how the left might reimagine this crucial instrument of political change.

 
The Offsets Market in India: Confronting Carbon Colonialism
Tamra Gilbertson
Where does the money for 'clean development' and 'carbon offsets' really go? This new photo exhibition exposes the cruel realities of carbon financing in India, and highlights community resistance to a range of unsustainable and unjust projects.
 


Global outlook stories

Locus focus and Carbon Trade Watch: radio interview
Tamra Gilbertson and Kevin Smith talk about what's wrong with carbon credits, how they do nothing to fight global warming, and even exacerbate the problem.

Stockmarket illusions
Achin Vanaik
The most striking dimension of today's world economy is its huge and uncontrolled financialisation, which is not being invested in production and is merely benefiting a few multi-billionaires.

Growing money on trees
Oscar Reyes
Deforestation is responsible for one-fifth of annual carbon emissions yet a new World-Bank scheme to 'reduce deforestation' could end up rewarding the companies and governments that cause it.

Afghanistan -- the next disaster
Saul Landau
The overwhelming public sentiment against Iraq will turn to Afghanistan as casualty rates continue or accelerate.

Et Tu, New York Times? Where were they when Musharraf sacked the judges?
Tariq Alí
The New York Times' recently awoken sense of justice was dormant when Musharraf sacked the independent-minded judges, whose sin was ordering the release of the 'terrorists' imprisoned without proof or trial.

Musharraf's missiles
John Gittings
Western leaders lecture Pakistan's president on democracy, while downplaying a much greater threat: the country's nuclear arsenal.

Paying a price for launching Israeli spy satellite
Praful Bidwai
The launch of an Israeli spy satellite by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) reveals that US pressure and lucrative arms exports to Israel is undermining India's previous independent foreign policy in the Middle East.

The day of protest
Boris Kagarlitsky
The worldwide day of protests called for by the WSF's International Committee channeled some significant popular discontent in Russia but were largely ignored by the media or exploited by the Communist Party for electoral reasons.

What's on the agenda for 2008?
Boris Kagarlitsky
The end of Putin's presidency has coincided with the slowing down of economic growth which could be damaging for the elites that consolidated riches during his reign, but might be an opportunity for the left.
See also: A primary only the Kremlin could concoct

Paving the way for agrofuels
EU criteria for 'sustainable' agrofuels are set on a collision course with the EU's proposed 10 per cent mandatory target for agrofuel use. This updated edition of 'Paving the Way for Agrofuels' includes additional material on the EU's proposed renewables directive and how Clean Development Mechanism funding is already starting to be tapped by the palm oil industry.

The Kenya case and media bias
Antony Otieno Ong'ayo provides an in-dept analysis of the Kenyan crisis.

Speech found in the mailbox of supreme underdog on Super Tuesday
Saul Landau

Join the Call to Lima for the People's Summit "Linking Alternatives 3"
to be held in May 2008, in parallel to the Summit of the Heads of State and Government from Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Walden Bello named 2008 Outstanding Public Scholar
Walden Bello has been named the Outstanding Public Scholar of 2008 by the International Political Economy section of the International Studies Association (ISA).


Other languages


L'autre Davos
Susan George dans la conférence alternative L'Autre Davos, organisée par Attac Suisse avec le soutien de diverses organisations et syndicats.

Entretien avec Susan George, Le Courrie

Ich will nicht Mutter Teresa sein!
Susan George, WOZ, Die Wochenzeitung

Susan George: ABD için Avrupa'nin önemi kalmadi
Turkish Firat News Agency


En español


Selección del editor

Permiso para contaminar
Oscar Reyes
Lejos de intentar solucionar el problema del cambio climático, los tímidos planes de la UE premian a aquellos que van en la dirección contraria.
 
¿Y tú, New York Times?
Tariq Alí
El repentino sentido de la justicia del New York Times estaba hibernando cuando Musharraf expulsó a todos los jueces independientes, cuyo pecado había sido ordenar la liberación de 'terroristas' encarcelados sin pruebas ni juicio.
 


Perspectiva global

Política en red: Introducción
Repensar la política es el resultado de un proceso colectivo de investigación para replantear la organización política en la era de los movimientos y las redes.

Un mundo en cambio, una explicación de la complejidad: Introducción a La guerra y la paz
Mariano Aguirre
Al tiempo que presenta las escuelas y tendencias de interpretación sobre el sistema internacional, La guerra y la paz llama la atención sobre cuestiones como el nuevo terrorismo, la crisis de los Estados frágiles, el declive de EE.UU. y la marginalización del derecho internacional.

Prólogo a La guerra y la paz
Pere Vilanova
El concepto de seguridad tradicional está en crisis, pero en ausencia de un concepto alternativo, el militarismo se vuelve a colar por la ventana: a falta de una doctrina política de seguridad, tengamos al menos un brazo armado.

Afganistán --el próximo desastre
Saul Landau
El sentimiento mayoritario contra Irak provocará un giro hacia Afganistán a medida que continúe creciendo o se acelere la tasa de bajas.

Discurso encontrado en el buzón del segundón supremo del Súper Martes
Saul Landau



New from our network

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Statewatch European Monitoring & Documentation Centre on Justice and Home Affairs in the EU
Statewatch.org >>

Outro mundo é possível por meio da cultura
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La Endesa que deja Manuel Pizarro genera la destrucción del planeta
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From the archives

TNCs: Employment is not the point
Susan George
February 1999

Whither the Washington Consensus
Howard Wachtel
March 2000

¿Modelos alternativos de integración?
Proyectos neoliberales y resistencias populares

Edgardo Lander
junio 2005

Events

13 January - 7 March
Durban Group for Climate Justice: North America tour

In the media

Dancing at Versailles to the EU Treaty
BBC Euroblog, 5 February

Peace education in school books
The Times of India, 4 February

Plant a tree, jet to Cancun? Offset schemes are not so simple
USA Today, 4 February

Más ideas que acciones
TerraViva / IPS, 4 February

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