UN Mission Unaccomplished?
Nick Buxton
UN conference was convened to find new ways of dealing with the global financial and economic crises and give voice to those most affected by them. But the rich countries have opposed any real change, and the result is an anemic UN document.

Contradictions at the UN Conference on the Financial and Economic Crisis
Myriam Vander Stichele

Confronting global trade as a root cause of the financial crisis!
Our World Is Not For Sale

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Peruvian Amazon crisis: what’s behind the protests?
Nina Brenjo
The elements of the Peruvian Amazon crisis have everything to do with the economic and environmental crises we are facing in the West - the crises created by the system we inexplicably still cling to.
See also: A fight to save the Amazon rainforest, by Joanna Cabello, and Peru's ´forest laws´ and their agro-energy driver, by Lucía Goldfarb

Towards a world market for coca leaf?
Pien Metaal
When we think of people like Pope Paul VI or the Queen of Spain, most of us do not think of them as criminals. But that is what they are, under the current international drug law.
See also: Coca Myths briefing paper

Netanyahu speaks: The Israel-Palestine ball remains in Obama's court
Phyllis Bennis
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu used the term 'Palestinian state' to pacify Obama, but his vision of the state amounts to a flag and an anthem, with no concessions from the Israeli side.
See also: Listen to Phyllis Bennis discussing Obama's Cairo speech (audio)

After Congress‘ rejuvenation in election 2009: need for an indigenous New Deal
Praful Bidwai
The Congress’ success in the recent Indian elections lies in acknowledging that redistributive justice is vitally, centrally, important.
See also: A caring State and Bloodletting in the BJP

The left must keep left
Achin Vanaik
Poor results of the reformist left in the recent Indian elections should serve as a wake-up call to go back to its founding principles, but also reach out to social movements.

Coca Myths
Drugs and Conflict Debate Paper 17
The coca leaf has been used and misused for many ends, each of them suiting different interests and agendas. The report shatters many of the myths surrounding the coca leaf.
See also: Towards a world market for coca leaf?, by Pien Metaal

Amazonía peruana: guerra por los recursos y contra las drogas
Ricardo Soberón Garrido
El reciente enfrentamiento entre policías e indígenas awajún en el Perú es resultado de la confrontación del modelo neoliberalista, basado en la extracción indiscriminada de recursos no renovables, y el modelo basado en el respeto a los pueblos originarios, los ecosistemas biodiversos y la vigencia de los derechos colectivos.
Véase también: Amazonía peruana: el “perro del hortelano” tiene rabia

“El capitalismo no desaparecerá a menos que nos organicemos para tener otro sistema
Después de los tiempos de ofensiva neoliberal, en los que los movimientos adoptaban una “postura defensiva”, Walden Bello señala las oportunidades de pasar a la ofensiva en el momento en que el sistema se “encuentra colapsado”.

Hacia un mercado mundial para la hoja de coca
Pien Metaal
El éxito de la petición de Bolivia para cambiar el estatus legal de la hoja de coca significaría sólo un reconocimiento de la soberanía de naciones y pueblos originarios involucradas en su cultivo.

Los mitos de la coca
Drogas y Conflicto documentos de debate 17
La hoja de coca se ha usado con muchos fines, cada uno de ellos al servicio de distintos intereses y agendas. Este informe desmonta muchos de los mitos en torno a esta planta.