Antoaneta Bezlova BEIJING, Dec 23 (IPS) – As a year of subtle but significant geopolitical shifts draws to an end, China looms ever larger in a world unable to decide whether its rise is an opportunity or a threat. For… Continue Reading
On Dec 16 Seymour Melman has died at 86 in his home in New York City. He was a key figure in radical politics, peace movements and economic research. Below is the article written by Ralph Nader on him.
Forum Planetagora (*) Jean Tardif Globalisation is emerging from many ongoing and interrelated processes that cause the multiplication, acceleration and intensification of interactions between human societies. Globalisation is not limited to the development of economic and financial flows; it affects… Continue Reading
Analysis – By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Dec 22 (IPS) – Indonesia’s new president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, steps into the political limelight just as South-east Asia’s identity as a symbol of moderate Islam gets increasingly bruised by the region’s own Muslims.
Moyiga Nduru JOHANNESBURG, Dec 21 (IPS) – As the year hurtles to a close, a good many inhabitants of South Africa’s commercial hub, Johannesburg, have deserted their home town for coastal resorts. Those still making their weary way to work… Continue Reading
THE NEW YORK TIMES By NEIL A. LEWIS and DAVID JOHNSTON WASHINGTON, – F.B.I. memorandums portray abuse of prisoners by American military personnel in Iraq that included detainees’ being beaten and choked and having lit cigarettes placed in their ears,… Continue Reading
Sonny Inbaraj BANGKOK, Dec 20 (IPS) – In the Christmas of 2001, rock icon Bono of the hugely popular Irish band U2 wrote ‘Walk On’ for Burma’s top dissident Aung San Suu Kyi. ”You could have flown away – a… Continue Reading
The lead writer of a UN report on freedom and governance in the Arab world has said the United States is threatening to cut off funds to a UN agency if the United Nations releases it. Nadir Fergani, the Egyptian… Continue Reading
Ilana Eldridge DARWIN, Australia, Dec 17 (IPS) – The recent death of a young indigenous Australian in a prison cell in Palm Island, in the northeastern state of Queensland, has sparked renewed calls for the recommendations of a Royal Commission… Continue Reading
Eduardo Tamayo G. Agrarian reform via trade is not a solution: we need to start processes of agrarian reform that allow farmers access to land, water and seeds. With a delegation of approximately a hundred people from all over the… Continue Reading
By Bill Moyers, AlterNet Posted on December 8, 2004, http://soros.c.topica.com/maacY1dabcCHjb36p4Yb/ Recently the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School presented its fourth annual Global Environment Citizen Award to Bill Moyers. In presenting the award, Meryl Streep,… Continue Reading
Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (IPS) – Just when it appeared that Syria was complying in earnest with U.S. demands to secure its border with Iraq and even making unprecedented peace overtures to Israel, key neo-conservative opinion shapers are calling… Continue Reading
Analysis by Moyiga Nduru JOHANNESBURG, Dec 15 (IPS) – In recent weeks, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has been the subject of heated debate in the United States and Europe  this after he was accused of oversight in his… Continue Reading
THE NEW YORK TIMES Pentagon Weighs Use of Deception in a Broad Arena By THOM SHANKER and ERIC SCHMITT WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 – The Pentagon is engaged in bitter, high-level debate over how far it can and should go in… Continue Reading
by Leonardo Boff * The process of globalization produces a crisis in cultural identities. On the one hand, they seek to defend themselves from excessive homogenization caused by the dominant globalization of the Occidental type; on the other, they find… Continue Reading
Ranjit Devraj NEW DELHI, Dec 14 (IPS) – Almost half- a- century after following the Dalai Lama over the high Himalayas into exile in India, Tibetan refugees are finding it hard to keep their progeny strictly within the fold of… Continue Reading
By Hazel Henderson * The widely-touted , so-called ” Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics ” isn’t a proper Nobel Prize at all. For many years, I and others have sought to correct this widespread error by reminding people of its… Continue Reading
Dahr Jamail BAGHDAD, Dec 13 (IPS) – The U.S. military has been preventing delivery of medical care in several instances, medical staff say. Iraqi doctors at many hospitals have reported raids by coalition forces. Some of the more recent raids… Continue Reading
Analysis – By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (IPS) – The interregnum between November’s election and the formal launch in January of U.S. President George W Bush’s second term has a strange feel. Perhaps it is that Colin Powell, who… Continue Reading
By Petra Cahill Reporter MSNBC Updated: 12:41 p.m. ET Dec. 9, 2004 More than 1 billion children are suffering from the deprivations of HIV/ AIDS, poverty and war, which threatens to debilitate the future of entire nations, according to a… Continue Reading
