Suzanne Hoeksema interviews ALICIA BÃRCENA, head of ECLAC UNITED NATIONS, Sep 30 (IPS) – Chile is leading the way towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), while Honduras is seriously lagging behind, says Alicia Bárcena, executive secretary of the Economic Commission… Continue Reading
By Naomi Klein – The Nation This article appeared in the October 12, 2009 edition of The Nation. On September 17, in the midst of the publicity blitz for his cinematic takedown of the capitalist order, Moore talked with Nation… Continue Reading
By Hiromichi Umebayashi (*) TOKYO, Sep (IPS) Why should we abolish nuclear weapons? This apparently naive question seems to have become a matter of hotdebate. In Japan, which suffered nuclear holocaust in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there is a profound desire… Continue Reading
By Fareed Zakaria | NEWSWEEK From the magazine issue dated Oct 5, 2009 At his United Nations debut, Barack Obama urged global cooperation to combat nuclear proliferation, climate change, and other problems that go beyond the borders of any one… Continue Reading
By Leonardo Padura Fuentes (*) HAVANA, Sep (IPS) Cuba’s official newspaper and organ of the Communist Party recently published a story that stunned the populace: in a country where the lack of food has become endemic and causes the people… Continue Reading
By Greg Grandin – The Nation September 27, 2009. Three years ago, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez caused a stir when, in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, he called then-US President George W. Bush a “devil.” “I can… Continue Reading
By Hazel Henderson (*) ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA, Sep (IPS) The awful truth is emerging: globalised rogue finance is disordering human societies and destroying our ecological life-support systems on a global scale. A spate of books and studies examining the role… Continue Reading
From The Economist print edition A new climate treaty could provide a highly effective way to reduce carbon emissions by paying people to not cut down forests Sep 24th 2009 . IN THE south-eastern corner of the Brazilian state of… Continue Reading
Mark Weisbrot * Now that President Zelaya has returned to Honduras, the coup government — after first denying that he was there — has unleashed a wave of repression to prevent people from gathering support for their elected president. This… Continue Reading
By Ignacio Ramonet (*) PARIS, Sep (IPS) The conclusions of the final European Commission report on competition abuses in the pharmaceutical industry, released on July 8, are shocking and have wide-ranging ramifications. And yet the media have largely failed to… Continue Reading
By Matteo Fracassi NEW YORK, Sep 23 (IPS) – Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, one of the world’s most powerful media moguls, is being increasingly accused of using his six news organisations and television channels to manipulate the country’s political… Continue Reading
By Andrew Downie | The Christian Science Monitor An ambitious commitment by some of the world’s largest companies not to buy beef or leather products from the Brazilian Amazon may falter if a strong monitoring system isn’t put in place.… Continue Reading
By Leonardo Boff (*) RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep (IPS) Today there are two fundamentally different ways in which people consider the Earth. For many it is simply a vast material object lacking spirit and bequeathed to the human race to… Continue Reading
IUCN – Communications UNFCCC subsidiary bodies meeting: 28 September to 9 October, Bangkok Background: The UN climate change talks in Bangkok are a critical step in moving towards a new climate change agreement in Copenhagen this December. A new draft… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio (*) ROME, Sep (IPS) US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s rejection of the European request for regulation of bank executives’ bonuses has given rise to various interpretations: some cite President Barack Obama’s need to avoid more confrontations with… Continue Reading
By Fareed Zakaria | NEWSWEEK Missile defense wasn’t the answer. From the magazine issue dated Sep 28, 2009 By canceling plans to station antiballistic-missile systems in Poland and the Czech Re-public, President Obama has traded fantasy for reality. Keep in… Continue Reading
Miren Gutierrez* interviews HAZEL HENDERSON ROME, Sep 18 (IPS) – Hazel Henderson is a futurist, an economic iconoclast, founder of Ethical Markets Media, and author of the books Building A Win-Win World, Beyond Globalization, Planetary Citizenship, and Ethical Markets: Growing… Continue Reading
By Bernard Kouchner * At May’s Paris conference on innovative financing, I put back on the international agenda an old idea, proposed by the European Parliament in 2000, voted for by France in 2001 and supported by many non-governmental organisations.… Continue Reading
IRIN BUNIA, 16 September 2009 (IRIN) – Militia attacks in parts of northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the past few months are worsening the humanitarian situation there and preventing access to affected populations, says a UN official.
By Zoltán Dujisin BUDAPEST, Sep 17 (IPS) – The Czech Republic has entered election campaign period with dire warnings being sounded of falling into the Russian sphere of influence, just as the U.S. drops its plans to build a missile… Continue Reading
