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Globalisation and war
Susan George
Corporate-led, finance-driven globalisation has successfully transferred wealth from labour to capital. This has resulted in inequality and exclusion on a massive scale which, combined with the pressure on water and other environmental resources, is likely to fuel new conflicts.

 
Sovereign Wealth Funds: power vs principle
Fred Halliday
The rise of authoritarian state-backed "sovereign wealth funds" signals the end of the neo-liberal model and challenges western states and financial institutions to come clean on their indulgence towards money-laundering and fake accounting.
 

Iraq war entering year six: Multiple crises rising in the Middle East
Phyllis Bennis
George Bush's second claims of victory look increasingly hollow as US-armed militias in Iraq turn on each other and Israel's military assault, backed by the US, fuels greater anger and instability across the Middle East.

 
From Cuba, Fidel slew the Monroe Doctrine! From Washington, viva the Monroe Doctrine!
Saul Landau
The fact that Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela peacefully resolved their differences over the cross-border bombing of FARC guerrillas without further US involvement and with a Colombian apology is a sign of the decline of Monroe Doctrine. It also owes a debt to the Cuban revolution now approaching its 50th anniversary.
 


Global outlook stories

Statement about the coca leaf
Ricardo Soberon (TNI) / International Drug Policy Consortium (IDCP)
Statement in support of the Bolivian announcement to ask for the un-scheduling of the coca leaf from the list controlled substances of the 1961 UN Single Convention.

Mad as a March election
Boris Kagarlitsky
The Russian presidential election was the most democratic for many years, but the farce in which everyone knew the result for months reveals the shallow nature of liberal democracy.

A budget for the urban rich, not farmers
Praful Bidwai
The Indian government's write-off of farmers' debts will not end the grave agrarian crisis that has driven 150,000 farmers to suicide and pales into insignificance beside the tax concessions offered to corporate taxpayers and rich individuals.

Audio: Norman Phillip who lives next to the BP oil refinery in Grangemouth, Scotland, talks about some of the real outcomes of carbon trading

Video: Has corporate media forgotten Iraq?
Phyllis Bennis
US soldiers that served in Iraq and Afghanistan should be given opportunity to say what they want: total withdrawal of US troops; reparations for the Iraqi people, and care for the veterans once home. Phyllis Bennis reports on the veterans' testimonies.

Dear future Presidents Clinton and Obama (which one will be Vice President?)
Saul Landau
I request that as your first act in office you end the "War on Terror." Terror means fear; fear precludes hope and confidence. To do things, we need to be freed from White House panic harangue.

Time to apply fresh coat of paint to Russia
Boris Kagarlitsky
Once a strong state was in place to secure the oligarchs' freshly acquired assets, the keys are ceremoniously handed over to the liberal faction surrounding Medvedev.

Requiem for the India-US nuclear deal?
Praful Bidwai
Thanks to India's Left parties and the peace movement, the US-India nuclear deal, despite last-minute pressure, seems ready to go into cold storage, if not oblivion.

The great catastrophe
Mike Marqusee
The facts of the Nakba (catastrophe) are now well documented and beyond dispute. Yet Nakba denial remains widespread, and is as vile as denial of any other historic crime.

Petition protesting Telecom Italia's case against Bolivia at World Bank tribunal, ICSID


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Un capitalismo con tonos apocalípticos
Walden Bello
La actual crisis financiera mundial es sintomática de un modelo de crecimiento capitalista basado en la especulación financiera que está desconectado de la estancada economía real.

 
La OEA es un vehículo del imperio. No nos sirve (Video)
Entrevista con Atilio Borón. Por Sergio Acosta
Desde el papel de la OEA a las FARC, pasando por las tensiones en la región andina norte y el giro hacia la izquierda en todo el continente, Borón repasa la actualidad latinoamericana y vaticina tiempos turbulentos.

 
La guerra de Iraq entra en su sexto año mientras en Oriente Medio se multiplican las crisis
Phyllis Bennis
El ataque militar a gran escala contra Gaza de los últimos días es sólo la parte más letal de una serie de crecientes crisis regionales que están atravesando Oriente Medio.

 
Desde Cuba, ¡Fidel mató a la Doctrina Monroe! Desde Washington, ¡viva la Doctrina Monroe!
Saul Landau
El hecho de que Colombia, Ecuador y Venezuela hayan resuelto pacíficamente sus diferencias tras el bombardeo trasfronterizo de las FARC, sin participación estadounidense y con disculpas de Colombia, es señal del declive de la doctrina Monroe. También tiene su deuda con la revolución cubana, que se acerca a su 50º aniversario.

 


Perspectiva global

Alcances y desafíos de las misiones de paz
Mariano Aguirre y Amélie Gauthier
La construcción del Estado es la base para la transición de la guerra a la paz, y para generar las condiciones para el desarrollo

Comercio de emisiones: la injusticia institucionalizada
Kevin Smith
La política de compensación de emisiones contaminantes nos aleja de las medidas a largo plazo que comportan la evolución hacia una economía limpia que pueda luchar de forma efectiva contra el cambio climático.

Estimados futuros Presidentes Clinton y Obama (¿Cuál será Vice Presidente?)
Saul Landau
Solicito que, como primer acto después de tomar posesión, den por terminada la "guerra al terror". Terror es sinónimo de miedo, y el miedo acaba con la esperanza y la seguridad.

La ofensiva del Tet 40 años después
Mike Marqusee
Como mostró Vietnam, la alternativa a una retirada rápida y completa de Iraq no es un compromiso feliz, sino una prolongada devastación.



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La crisis en la subregión andina
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From the archives

No more demockery
Hilary Wainwright
May 2003

Iraqis will not be pawns in Bush and Blair's war game
Kamil Mahdi
February 2003

Iraq and Ruin
Kamil Mahdi interviewed by Oscar Reyes
December 2006

Events

22 - 23 March
Water: under the yoke of capitalism
Istanbul, Turkey

12 - 13 April
Marxism festival 2008: Marx reloaded
Amsterdam, Netherlands

14 - 17 May
Linking Alternatives 3
Lima, Peru

14 - 17 mayo
Enlazando Alternativas 3
Lima, Perú

21 May
Tax Justice seminar
Amsterdam, Netherlands

In the media

Big Foot: In measuring carbon emissions, it’s easy to confuse morality and science.
The New Yorker, 19 March

Crise financeira global: quem pagará a conta?
Le monde diplomatique, Edição Brasileira, 19 March

Utopía realizable: oxímoron y paradoja
La Jornada Morelos, 17 marzo

EE.UU. presiona a los cocaleros del Perú: El gobierno de Garcia acordo con los cocaleros, pero Washington se opuso
Pagina/12, 17 marzo

Chi odia il the di coca della Bolivia e del Perù?
il manifesto, 12 March

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