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Olympic rings Pyrrhic Olympic victory for China
Boris Kagarlitsky
The 2008 Summer Olympic Games were supposed to mark China's incredible achievements and its advancing status as a new global leader. But the country's economic model remains inherently vulnerable and unstable.
 

After Doha: the need for new trade architecture
After Doha: the new need for new trade architecture
Walden Bello and Mary Lou Malig ask if the Doha round of negotiations, like Dracula, will come back from the dead? Myriam Vander Stichele puts forward proposals on what could replace the World Trade Organisation.

 
Manta base demonstration

US loses another staging post in “its backyard”
Wilbert van der Zeijden
The US military base in the Ecuadorian harbour town Manta is like all others: A fenced off, barb wired area guarded by angry looking men in uniform. It is special in one way too: Attached to its front gate is an announcement of eviction, signed by the Ecuador government.

 

Mexico's Oil Referendum
Manuel Perez-Rocha
Mexico's ruling National Action Party (PAN) attempts to start privatising the country's oil industry have caused a huge public outcry, showing popular support for defending the country's resources from transnational corporations.

 


New website

Carbon Trade Watch website

Integration of the Peoples in Latin America (Video)
The documentary presents the state of the debate on alternatives for regional integration as this unfolds among social movements and civil society organisations throughout the continent.

 
Carbon Trade Watch website

The www.carbontradewatch.org site has been updated and rebuilt with more resources and archives on carbon trading. In addition, the new multimedia section hosts several new films, photo essays and audio programmes on issues around Environmental and Climate Justice which can be streamed or downloaded.

 


Global outlook stories

Going MAD: ten years of the bomb in South Asia
Zia Mian
India and Pakistan have been talking peace since 2003, yet they have continued to expand their nuclear arsenals and have threatened to use them in two military confrontations in 1999 and 2001-2002.

U.S. military interests reign supreme in Italy
Stephanie Westbrook
Italian High Court resorts to laws enacted under Mussolini to approve work on a second US military base but grassroots opposition is growing and determined to stop the base in Vicenza

Carbon trade-off - How the carbon market in Asia isn't working
Kevin Smith
Commentators are starting to draw attention to the parallels between the recent sub-prime mortgage credit crunch and the carbon market, both of which involve enormous pressure to push through large numbers of transactions regardless of the quality of the deals being done.

The waste-pickers of Delhi
Daphne Wysham
The original Delhi recyclers have turned garbage into cash for decades. Now, a carbon-credit-generating incinerator may put them out of business.
See also: Why carbon offsets backfire

Attack Iran? Yes they can
Phyllis Bennis
With US threats, Israeli military exercises and Iranian missile tests, it seems like a carefully choreographed build up to the next Middle East conflagration is under way. But can the US really risk a strike on Iran ?

Pakistan Crisis: the General in his labyrinth

Praful Bidwai
With Pakistan's ruling coalition asking President Pervez Musharraf to resign or face impeachment, the people's will might finally be upheld - but it might also precipitate a chain of negative events.


India/US: Racing to clear last lap of Nuke Deal

Praful Bidwai
The US and India’s attempts to use coercive diplomacy to secure international backing for a nuclear cooperation deal makes a mockery of non-proliferation commitments.

UN ‘clean development’ money sought for dam that threatens World Heritage Site in Panama
A new hydroelectric dam in Panama that will displace indigenous peoples and cause environmental damage could receive funding from the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism.

Is she going to be India's next PM?
Praful Bidwai
Bahujan Samaj Party's Mayawati, a Dalit and a single woman, has been catapulted to the national forefront. But could she be a future Indian Prime Minister?

Abu Dis - a city divided (Video)
Phyllis Bennis reports.
Israel has done what 2000 years of history could not, block the Silk Road from the sea.

Mediterranean mirage: Europe ’s sunken politics
Fred Halliday
Nicolas Sarkozy's multinational and cross-cultural Mediterranean summit looks less impressive in light of the current flaws and failings of European governance and leadership.

The Revolution 55 years after Moncada
Saul Landau

Remarks at 40th Anniversary of the Union for Radical Political Economics

Howard Wachtel

 

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Selección del editor

Integración de los Pueblos (video)
Este documental tiene el objetivo de presentar el estado de debate de los movimientos sociales y las organizaciones de la sociedad civil sobre alternativas de integración regional en América Latina.

 

El código Chávez: Reunión Lula, Chávez y Fernández
Atilio A. Borón
La Argentina sigue siendo el reino del “cortoplacismo”: ningún gobierno desde la restauración democrática hasta aquí ha pensado más allá de la próxima coyuntura electoral.

 

Los caminos del narcotráfico
Aída Palau y Eduardo Febbro
Más allá de las conclusiones de la cumbre de Cartagena consagrada a la lucha contra el narcotráfico conviene preguntarse cuáles son sus orígenes, sus rutas de tránsito, los Estados más vulnerables y la forma en que gigantescas sumas de dinero se licuan en los circuitos financieros legales

 

Público, privado y otros debates
Joan Subirats
Las obligaciones del sector público no son sólo la eficiencia o la calidad de sus servicios, sino también la equidad en el acceso y la no discriminación

 


Nueva Página Web

Carbon Trade Watch website

El nuevo sitio www.carbontradewatch.org ha sido actualizado y rediseñado con más recursos y archivos sobre el comercio de emisiones. Asimismo, la nueva sección multimedia contiene nuevos filmes, fotorreportajes y programas de audio sobre temas relativos a la justicia medioambiental y climática que pueden ser descargados o utilizados online.

 


Perspectiva global

Tan importante como fugaz: Cumbre regional antidrogas en Colombia
Luisa Fernanda Lópe
En la cumbre regional antidrogas realizada en Cartagena, con la participación de seis presidentes latinoamericanos, fue poco lo que se propuso y avanzó en la definición de una política regional que permita encarar la propagación por el continente del problema del narcotráfico.

La Revolución, 55 años después del Moncada
Saul Landau
El socialismo cubano, a pesar de la constante agresión estadounidense, ha defendido durante cincuenta años la revolución y ha establecido un sistema social y derechos único, pero el programa de reformas en la isla es imparable.

 


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Beijing: the carbon cheating games
World Rainforest Movement

Fracaso de la Ronda de Doha de la OMC: bofetada contra las políticas comerciales internacionales
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Amandla: taking power seriously
South African Left Monthly Magazine

Events

European Social Forum
Malmo, Sweden, September 2008

Asia Europe People's Forum
Beijing, China, October 2008

From the archives

Agrocombustibles: Una revisión crítica de nueve puntos clave
Marzo 2008

Agrofuels: Towards a reality check in nine areas
July 2007

 

In the media

AES Corporation busca beneficios con bonos de carbono en Panamá
Burica Press, 6 August 

We the people review
Political Affairs Magazine, 5 August 

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