Global Outlook
A New Cold War or Dangerous Multipolarity?
Mariano Aguirre
There are signs of a return to a Cold War between Washington and Moscow. This is not, however, an ideological confrontation but rather a sign of rising tensions between a number of global and regional powers in which the United States and Russia are no longer the only significant players.
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"The U.S. desire to crush Cuba ... failed"
Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada interviewed by Saul Landau
Saul Landau recently spent some time in Cuba. During his stay he was able to interview Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada, president of the Cuban Parliament.
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Also by Saul Landau:
47 years later in Havana
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Angola: empowerment of the few
David Sogge
For many decades, war and other kinds of violence brought wretchedness and early death to millions of Angolans. What difference has Western action or inaction made for the those affected by the war? Have donors helped or hindered their empowerment?
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CEO-driven capitalism is bad news
Praful Bidwai
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's warning about sky-high corporate salaries amounts to a frank acknowledgement of the skewed nature of India's post-1991 growth. But will he manage to put the neo-liberal genie back into the bottle, asks Praful Bidwai.
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Last-minute hitch over US-India deal
Praful Bidwai
High-level official talks between the United States and India to clinch the nuclear cooperation deal initialled in July 2005 have failed to narrow mutual differences and produce an agreement.
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China by the book
John Gittings
Among many new writings on China, two works exploring the country's recent past and its changing present stand out.
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Savage Repression in Chhattisgarh
When the state turns lawless
Praful Bidwai
The detention of a noted human rights activist Binayak Sen, under the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act, for his legitimate visits to the jailed Maoist leader Narayan Sanyal, puts Indian democracy under a question mark.
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Skeletons in the cupboard
When the state turns lawless
Boris Kagarlitsky
The demand from an Estonian MP that Moscow officially condemns the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact - which actually has already been done - only serves to increase tensions in the current political stand-off.
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Water giant Suez looks east to Croatia for profits
Olivier Hoedeman interviewed by Tena Erceg
As Croatian city Split considers handing over its water services to French multinational Suez, Olivier Hoedeman of Corporate European Observatory gives an overview of the failures of water privatisation worldwide and why Split should reconsider.
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