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Global Outlook
"Terrorist lists" still above the law
Ben Hayes
The EU's reform of its terrorist lists amounts to little more than window dressing. Secret intergovernmental committees continue to act as judge and executioner and those listed are denied their basic human rights. Until they are granted a fair hearing - in which the substantive allegations against them can be reviewed by a competent, impartial tribunal - the terrorist lists will continue to represent a legal vacuum and a betrayal of the EU's commitment to the rule of law.
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Equal Pay for Equal Labor
Boris Kagarlitsky
There have been numerous strikes as workers in Russian-owned industries demand the same salaries as those working in the foreign-owned factories.
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Pakistan's people want an end to the nightmare
Tariq Ali
Declaring a state of emergency in Pakistan would only prove Pervez Musharraf's inability to break from a brutal, shabby legacy.
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End of The Troubles
Mike Marqusee
With the formal end of the British military involvement in Northern Ireland, Mike Marqusee looks back at the conditions that brought about a peaceful settlement.
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Another end of the world is possible (Video)
Kevin Smith
The Kyoto-protocol based system of carbon trading is largely relying on the principle 'polluter profits' rather than 'polluter pays' and is not going to work. Kevin Smith explains why in this online video released to coincide with the UK Climate Camp.
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Justice is no half-way house
Praful Bidwai
Convictions for the 1993 Mumbai bombings have deepened Muslim despondency about securing justice for the victims of the far worse riots that preceded them.
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Novartis Patents Case Far From Dead
Praful Bidwai
Cancer patients in India have reason to be relieved at a high court ruling which dismissed a petition by the Novartis corporation challenging an Indian law which denies patents for minor or trivial improvements to known drugs.
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Petroleum TNCs in Columbia - death traded for petrol and profits
Brid Brennan
A packed and hushed audience heard an Indictment handed down on several petroleum transnationals - ECOPETROL, OXY, OXI, REPSOL and BP - at the end of a two day session of the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal (PPT) held from 3-4 August in Bogota, Colombia.
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At the Margin of Law, by Alejandro Teitelbaum
Ana MacNaught
Transnational corporations are acting with impunity in Latin America, as Alejandro Teitelbaum's new book "At the Margin of Law" clearly shows.
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Mechanistic Destruction: American Foreign Policy at Point Zero
Gabriel Kolko
The US establishment's belief in the right of intervention, coupled with arms producers' interests, are the main promulgators of the country's disastrous foreign policy.
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An offensive against dollar
Boris Kagarlitsky
The dollar crisis reflects the crisis of the global economic system as it was formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Mechanistic Destruction: American Foreign Policy at Point Zero
Gabriel Kolko
The US establishment's belief in the right of intervention, coupled with arms producers' interests, are the main promulgators of the country's disastrous foreign policy.
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Indian politics gets more fractious
Praful Bidwai
After the most contentious elections in its independent history, Pratibha Patil has become the first woman president of India.
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Eternal Euskadi, enduring ETA
Fred Halliday
The Basque country's embrace of the modern world is both defined and undermined by the intractable political dispute that has gone on for forty years.
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