Assessing the Georgian crisis
Richard Falk
The confrontation over South Ossetia represents a collision of US and Russian geopolitical logics which poses great dangers for regional and world peace, as well as to the wellbeing of the peoples of the world.
See also Bad habits are contagious, by Boris Kagarlitsky, and The Georgian dogs of August - or shmucks of our time, by Saul Landau

Haiti: unravelling the knot
Mariano Aguirre and Amélie Gauthier
Haiti's interlocking crises - from food-security to social violence, inequality to judicial corruption - make it one of the most challenging arenas in the world for establishing the right mix of international and domestic policies.

Toward a new American isolationism
Walden Bello
The Bush administration's imperial and corporate misadventures over the last decade have proven that the world would be much better off without the US interference. China, as the new rising power, should be wary not to replicate the West's old patterns of domination.

The FAO and its work on land policy and agrarian reform
Sofia Monsalve Suárez
Could the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) provide the space for developing alternatives to the World Bank´s neo-liberal approach to land policy and agrarian reform?

From September 17th to 21st 2008 the fifth European Social Forum will be held in Malmö, Sweden. It is by far the biggest meeting place for social movements and a progressive civil society in Europe - with the aim to create a better Europe and a better world. See TNI activities at the Forum.

Originalidad y desafíos para Obama
Mariano Aguirre
Obama es el primer aspirante a la presidencia de Estados Unidos que hace una campaña global para ganar una elección local, pero no puede vencer con ciudadanos globales que no votan, como tampoco sólo con la población mestiza y parte de la negra
>Escucha el analisis de la convención republicana

Narcotráfico y políticas sobre drogas en el Perú: sin novedad en el frente
Ricardo Soberón Garrido
Contribución al Acuerdo Nacional, en el marco de un debate organizado por el gobierno peruano.

El socialismo del siglo XXI: notas para su discusión
Atilio Borón
No hay una formula universal para construir el socialismo, tampoco un único sujeto. Partidos y movimientos representan dos modos complementarios de articular los intereses del campo popular: en el marco de las instituciones políticas y en el seno de la sociedad civil.