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In
this issue: Phyllis Bennis [1] [2], Praful Bidwai [1] [2] and John Gittings on
Iran Crisis | WSF vs WEF – Hilary Wainwright, Immanuel Wallerstein, Walden Bello and Praful Bidwai on WSF
vs WEF | Gabriel Kolko and
John Gittings on
Israel-Syria negotiations | Marc Maes et al. on
EU-ASEAN Free Trade Agreements | Praful Bidwai on
India-Pakistan relations | Praful Bidwai on
India-Russia relations | An Honorary
Doctorate for Susan George | Jutta Kill says
Biofuels targets are not the answer | Praful Bidwai on
India’s patents law | Fred Halliday on
Sunni and Shi’a geopolitics | Susan George on
World Bank research | Saul Landau remembers
1968 with Fidel | Saul Landau on
anti-Cuba terrorism | Boris Kagarlitsky on
how Russia views the US | Papers on public water in rural areas | Susan George on
Attac France |
Textos en español: América Latina en una encrucijada histórica
| Entre la espada del Estado y la pared de ETA
| Palestina: en las puertas de la guerra civil
| Turbulencias en el pozo | El auge del regionalismo: el caso de Asia Pacífico
| Africa desde el aire |
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On
to Iran: can the war drive be stopped?
Escalating Threats of US Attacks Against Iran
Phyllis Bennis
The US administration’s anti-Iranian rhetoric is escalating rapidly.
Phyllis Bennis assesses the risk of such an attack and sets out the
challenges that it poses to the anti-war movement.
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Next target: Iran
Praful Bidwai
The ratcheting up of US propaganda and new troop and naval deployments
show that a war on Iran is now a real threat, argues Bidwai.
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Congress: Treat
Iran War Like Contras War
Phyllis Bennis
The newly Democrat-controlled Congress should use its
constitutionally-mandated power to cut funds for the war to force an
end to the war in Iraq, and stop the looming war with Iran, argues
Phyllis Bennis.
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Back from the brink
John Gittings
The US and North Korea have reached an agreement at last. Might the US
be clearing the decks of intractable Asian nuclear diplomacy in order
to concentrate its forces on Iran, asks John Gittings.
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Provoking Iran
Praful Bidwai
An attack on Iran's nuclear facilities will have catastrophic
political, economic, military and human consequences, argues Praful
Bidwai. Diplomacy is the only way out.
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World Social Forum vs
World Economic Forum
Lessons from Nairobi
Hilary Wainwright
Renewing the local popular roots of the global social forum process is
central to the future of the left. Hilary Wainwright reports from this
year’s World Social Forum
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The World Social Forum: From Defence to Offence
Immanuel Wallerstein
The deadlock of Davo-style multilateralism means that the WSF could
present a real alternative, writes Immanuel Wallerstein.
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Beijing’s Diplomacy in Africa Sparks Debate at World
Social Forum
Walden Bello
With its rise as a modernising economic superpower, China’s involvment
in Africa has shifted from the old solidarity rationale to a
dangerously single-minded pursuit of economic interest. Forging links
between growing Chinese civil society and its African counterparts
might advance a shift to people-centered policies, argues Walden Bello.
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A Davos lesson: Free-market policies are unpopular
Praful Bidwai
Despite polls showing that the Indian people, who brought United
Progressive Alliance to power, oppose neoliberal reforms, the country’s
representatives at the World Economic Forum strove to convince
corporations that India remains dedicated to free-market “reforms”.
Praful Bidwai reports.
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US disrupts India-Syria negotiations
US force-marches Israel over Syria
Gabriel Kolko
Israel’s secret negotiations with Syria were disrupted by the US.
Gabriel Kolko looks at the history of Israeli foreign policy and
concludes that US influence has led it down a dangerous and destructive
path.
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The not-so-great interruption
John Gittings
The Guardian, 2 February 2007
It emerged recently that Israel and Syria had held peace talks - and
there are strong suggestions that they failed because of US hostility,
writes John Gittings.
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FTA Watch
EU-ASEAN
Free Trade Agreements: A Reader
Marc Maes,
Roelien Knotterus and Charles Santiago
The EU proposes
free trade agreements (FTAs) with ASEAN, India and Korea, part of a new
generation of agreements with ambitious services and investment
targets. The EU strategy paper Global Europe – Competing in the World,
published in October 2006, describing these frankly as ‘new
competitiveness-driven FTAs....aiming at the highest possible degree of
trade liberalisation’. Marc Maes and Roelien Knotterus set out the
context in relation to other FTAs, while Charles Santiago puts these
new EU-Asia relations in a historical perspective.
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Diplomacy,
Indian style
India-Pakistan ties set to improve, slowly
Praful Bidwai
India and Pakistan have resumed their bilateral dialogue. Progress is
slow, but they are at least commencing serious negotiations on the
Kashmir issue for first time since 1964, writes Praful Bidwai.
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India upgrades ties with Russia, cautiously
Praful Bidwai
Despite the disproportionate importance that India attaches to its
“strategic partnership” with the United States, India has begun to
strengthen its relations with Russia, its friend from the Cold War
days. Praful Bidwai reports.
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Susan George receives Honorary Doctorate
Susan George has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Civil Law from
Newcastle University in the UK in recognition of her anti-poverty work.
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Global Outlook
Biofuels targets are not the answer
Jutta Kill
The EU has unveiled new targets for biofuel use, but increased reliance
on crops for fuel means the destruction of forests and livelihoods in
the global South, without a clear environmental gain. The EU should
instead address the key issue of growing transport volumes.
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High stakes in attack on Indian patent law
Praful Bidwai
A lot is at stake in the legal battle of the Swiss pharmaceutical
multinational Novartis against India’s patents law: the people’s right
to affordable medicines, preventing unethical monopolies in the
healthcare system, and the sovereignty of national decision-making.
Praful Bidwai reports.
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Sunni, Shi’a and the “Trotskyists of Islam”
Fred Halliday
9 February 2007
The tensions between Islam's two major traditions are rooted more in
current geopolitics than in differences of faith, says Fred Halliday.
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"Paradigm Maintenance", or why we can't trust the
World Bank's research
Susan George
Robin Broad has shown correctly that World Bank’s chief concern is
“paradigm maintenance” - in other words, justification for Bank
policies developed far away from the research department itself. Susan
George defends Broad’s approach in the face of the World Bank’s attempt
to discredit it.
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Jeep trip with Fidel – 1968
Saul Landau
Part six of Saul Landau’s diary of his travels with Fidel Castro.
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Castro, Machiavelli,
Posada and Bush
Saul Landau
The US government has shown a tendency to bow to political pressure
from the Cuban exile community because of its complicity with
anti-Castro terrorism, what, according to Bush's own statement, makes
it as guilty as terrorists, writes Saul Landau.
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A Mixed-Up Munich Message
Boris Kagarlitsky
Putin’s irritation with the US reflects not only the Kremlin’s
attitude, but also the feeling on the streets in Moscow, writes Boris
Kagarlitsky.
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Public models of drinking water supply and sanitation
in rural areas
Papers from the Reclaiming Public Water seminar held in Barcelona from
19-21 November
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Un nouveau depart pour ATTAC France
Susan George
En réponse à de très nombreuses demandes d’explication concernant la
crise d’Attac France qui ne s’est résolue qu’avec les élections au
Conseil d’administration en décembre 2006, j’ai rédigé le texte
ci-dessus en anglais pour expliquer la crise et son issue et l’ai
envoyé au tout début de 2007 à des amis et camarades en Europe et dans
le monde. Certaines personnes me faisaient remarquer qu’il fallait
aussi une version française mais je n’avais pas le courage de la faire
moi-même. Michel Schroeder, un camarade d’Attac Suisse a pris sur lui
de faire cette traduction. Qu’il trouve ici l’expression de mon amitié
et de ma reconnaisance. Susan George
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English
version
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Textos en español
América Latina en una encrucijada histórica
Ramón Fernández Durán
En este texto, Ramón Fernández Durán analiza el reciente encuentro en
Cochabamba (Bolivia) de mandatarios latinoamericanos, por un lado, y de
movimientos sociales del continente por otro.
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Entre
la espada del Estado y la pared de ETA
Ramón Fernández Durán
Ramón Fernández Durán reflexiona sobre la situación en Euskadi y el
Estado español tras el atentado de ETA en el aeropuerto de Madrid el 30
de diciembre de 2006.
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Palestina:
en las puertas de la guerra civil
Mariano Aguirre
Los crecientes enfrentamientos entre grupos armados en la franja de
Gaza muestran que las posibilidades de una guerra civil entre
palestinos es una grave posibilidad, escribe Mariano Aguirre.
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Turbulencias
en el pozo
Tom Kucharz
Las tendencias energéticas en América Latina dejan mucho que desear en
lo que atañe al medio ambiente y los derechos humanos, así como a la
búsqueda de modelos alternativos. ¿Habrá una América Latina justa sin
los patrones del desarrollismo económico actual que está provocando la
mayor crisis estructural social y ambiental de la historia moderna?
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El
auge del regionalismo: el caso de Asia Pacífico
Pere Vilanova
La aplicación de la hipótesis del auge o emergencia de los subsistemas
regionales como factor de estabilización en el sistema internacional,
aplicado al caso de Asia-Pacífico, escribe Pere Vilanova, requiere
varias líneas posibles de investigación y de debate.
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Africa
desde el aire
Pere Vilanova
La cuestión somalí en puridad permite afirmar que Somalia ya no existe.
O mejor dicho, existe en la fantasía del derecho internacional, en la
realidad virtual de la ONU y de esa otra realidad virtual que llamamos
comunidad internacional, un supuesto Estado soberano que se llama
Somalia.
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5 – 9 Mar • International
Conference For The Abolition Of Foreign Military Bases
Quito & Manta, Ecuador
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23 – 27 Feb • World Forum
on Food Sovereignty
Nyéléni, Mali
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Statement
of Concern Regarding the Proposed EU-ASEAN Free Trade Negotiations
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Declaración de
preocupación sobre la propuesta de negociaciones de libre comercio
UE-ASEAN
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Full report of WSF
Social Movement Assembly
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Unconventional warfare:
the US military in Sulu
Focus on the Global South
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Open Letter To The New Un
Secretary General: Mr. Ban Ki-Moon
Ubuntu
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Why Water Privatisation Fails
World Development Movement
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Why Public Water Succeeds
World Development Movement
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