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THE BIG QUESTION: HAS POWER-SHARING DONE ANYTHING TO END THE CRISIS IN ZIMBABWE?
Daniel Howden,
10 Jun 2009
Why are we asking this now? Morgan Tsvangirai arrives in London today on the UK leg of a tour of Europe and the US in an effort to convince Western leaders that Zimbabwe has turned the corner. The former opposition leader and now prime minister has insisted that he’s not trawling the rich world with […]
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Daniel Moss,
10 Jun 2009
With climate change deepening the water crisis, wonky discussions of how to manage our water systems are suddenly attracting increased public attention. "Unlike oil, there’s no substitute for fresh water," says Maude Barlow, senior advisor on water to the president of the United Nations General Assembly. "We all need it." This recognition of the indispensability […]
→ read full article(ITALIAN) “DISOBBEDISCO”
Carlo Olivieri - umanista,
14 May 2009
Appello Alla Disobbedienza Civile La Camera dei Deputati ha approvato il primo dei tre maxiemendamenti al disegno di legge in materia di sicurezza, quello che riguarda l’immigrazione. La maggioranza dei Deputati ha approvato norme che introducono il reato di clandestinità per chi entra o soggiorna illegalmente in Italia, che rendono legali le ronde, che vietano […]
→ read full article(ITALIAN) ADDIO AL BRASILIANO AUGUSTO BOAL, IN IL “TEATRO DEGLI OPPRESSI”
Daniele Barbieri,
12 May 2009
E’ morto sabato scorso a 78 anni il drammaturgo contro le dittature. «Tutto il teatro è necessariamente politico; chi cerca di separare teatro e politica vuole indurci in errore… per ragioni politiche»: è la teoria e soprattutto la prassi del brasiliano Augusto Boal, una vita contro le dittature e perché sulla scena teatrale cadano le […]
→ read full articleRED CROSS SAYS THOUSANDS OF SRI LANKANS FACE ‘CATASTROPHIC’ HARDSHIP
Stephanie Nebehay – REUTERS April 21, 2009,
22 Apr 2009
Geneva – Up to 50,000 civilians trapped on a tiny strip in northern Sri Lanka are enduring dire hardship, suffering from a lack of food, water and medical care, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Tuesday. Hundreds of civilians have been killed or injured in the past 48 hours and more […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) “GOVERNO FEDERAL DEU MUITO PODER PARA O CTNBIO”, AFIRMA ESPECIALISTA BRASILEIRO
Danilo Augusto,
2 Apr 2009
Mesmo não havendo estudos e resultados concretos sobre os efeitos que os produtos geneticamente modificados – conhecidos como transgênicos – podem causar para a saúde humana, o Brasil continua autorizando o plantio e comercialização desses produtos para o mercado interno. Para se ter uma idéia, em uma pesquisa realizada a pedido da Organização Não-Governamental Greenpeace, […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) SOBERANIA ENERGÉTICA E REFORMA AGRÁRIA UNIFICAM MOVIMENTOS DE BRASIL E PARAGUAI
Daniel Cassol - Correspondente em Asunción, Paraguai,
25 Mar 2009
Um ato simbólico nesta quinta-feira (26/Mar) reunirá organizações sociais do Paraguai e do Brasil na Ponte da Amizade, entre Ciudad del Este e Foz do Iguaçu. A iniciativa simboliza o começo de um processo de articulação entre movimentos sociais dos países vizinhos, em defesa de soberania energética e reforma agrária. O Congresso Unitário Político e […]
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Mohammad Hassan Khani,
15 Mar 2009
Better Relations Are Within Reach — If Both Sides Make the Effort The state of relations between the United States and Iran is based on a long history of hostility and lack of trust. For Iranians, this tension dates to the early 1950s, when a coup engineered by the United States and Britain brought down […]
→ read full articleBLACKWATER’S NEW FRONTIER: THEIR OWN PRIVATE AFRICA
Bruce Falconer and Daniel Schulman,
12 Mar 2009
Will military contractors blur the line between aid workers and hired guns? You give me money, I don’t care who you are." It was late October, and Zimbabwe’s defense attaché, a soft-spoken, thick-shouldered lieutenant colonel, was explaining his country’s freewheeling approach to business in the banquet room of the Liaison hotel on Capitol Hill. Mingling […]
→ read full articleWITCH HUNT: AFRICA’S HIDDEN WAR ON WOMEN
Johann Hari, in Kenya and Tanzania,
12 Mar 2009
In villages across Africa, old women suspected of witchcraft are hacked to death, while young girls are mutilated to preserve their virginity. But attitudes are changing – and thousands of lives are being saved. Across Africa, a war is being waged on women – but we are refusing to hear the screams. Over the past […]
→ read full articleDEMOCRACY FOR EXPORT: PRINCIPLES, PRACTICES, LESSONS
Daniele Archibugi,
4 Mar 2009
Can democracy be introduced from outside, and what conditions make the effort legitimate? Answers to these crucial questions can be found by considering the global experience of democratisation in the post-1945 decades – and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq – in light of the cosmopolitan project, says Daniele Archibugi. The image of the past […]
→ read full articleOPEN LETTER (AND HEART) FROM AN ISRAELI JEW ABOUT THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT
Daniel Bar-Tal,
17 Feb 2009
This is probably one of the most difficult periods in my political life as a Jew living in the State of Israel. The events of the war in Gaza hit hard my foundations of hope that a peaceful conflict resolution between Israelis and Palestinians can be achieved in the near future. Moreover, my […]
→ read full articleA SHORT PATH, FROM GAZA TO SOMALIA
Daniel Levy – Haaretz.com,
23 Dec 2008
As the defined period for the Gaza cease-fire comes to an end today [19 Dec, 08], preceded by a new cycle of violence, Israelis are being treated to a predictable dose of political posturing and chest-thumping. "We must do something, exact a price," we hear. Yes, the rocket fire needs to stop, but there is […]
→ read full articleGREECE’S MAELSTROM OF VIOLENCE
Manfred Ertel and Daniel Steinvorth,
17 Dec 2008
The Revolt of a Disappointed Generation The violent unrest that followed the shooting of a 15-year-old boy has driven Greece to the brink of a political crisis. The rioting marks an explosion of rage by the country’s young people who have few prospects of carving out a place in a society where all initiative is […]
→ read full articleTHE HUMAN RIGHTS DECLARATION AT 60
Daniele Archibugi,
13 Dec 2008
An agenda to return the Universal Declaration to relevance: define "state aggression", bring the US back into the fold, move beyond narrow inter-nationalism and empower citizens. The Declaration’s compromised moral authority needs at least this. As the time comes to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the West has lost […]
→ read full articleMAKING THE WORLD’S POOR PAY: THE ECONOMIC CRISIS AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH
Adam Hanieh,
24 Nov 2008
The IMF Returns to Center Stage The current global economic crisis has all the earmarks of an epoch-defining event. Mainstream economists — not usually known for their exaggerated language — now openly employ phrases like ‘systemic meltdown’ and ‘peering into the abyss.’ On October 29, for example, Martin Wolf, one of the top financial commentators […]
→ read full articleBREAKING INVESTIGATION REVEALS HOLIDAY HORRORS FOR TURKEYS
PETA-People for Ethical Treatment of Animals,
19 Nov 2008
Violence, Torture and Cruelty Against Animals Killed for “Food”The solution? Don’t eat the cadavers they produce. The holiday season is upon us, but for turkeys on factory farms, there is nothing to be thankful for. We have just released footage from an undercover investigation that reveals a rarely seen side of the turkey industry. I […]
→ read full articleOFF THE COAST OF SOMALIA: ‘WE’RE NOT PIRATES. THESE ARE OUR WATERS, NOT THEIRS’
Daniel Howden and Abdinasir Mohamed Guled,
14 Nov 2008
When Bile Wadani is not counting his money, he counts his wives. So far he has three – but he promises there will be more to come. "I didn’t ever dream I would marry three wives but I have that dream now because I can get as much money as I want." As he speaks, […]
→ read full articleAMERICA?S MILITARY ATTACK IN SYRIA-POSSIBLE REASONS AND LIKELY COSTS
Daniel Levy,
30 Oct 2008
Prospects for Peace Details are finally emerging of the American military operation inside Syria in Abu Kamal on Sunday afternoon. While there still has been no official on-record briefing from the Pentagon, unnamed DoD sources have filled in some of the gaps and reports on the operation appear in today’s press. The target was apparently […]
→ read full articleWOMEN RUN THE SHOW IN A RECOVERING RWANDA
Stephanie McCrummen,
29 Oct 2008
On a continent that has been dominated by the rule of men, this tiny East African nation is trying something new. Here, women are not only driving the economy — working on construction sites, in factories and as truck and taxi drivers — they are also filling the ranks of government. Women hold a third […]
→ read full articleVegetarianism against Global Hunger
EVANA-Swiss Union for Vegetarianism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2008
On 7-8 October 2008, the European Commission, the European Parliament and the United Nations marked the anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights which assures everyone’s entitlement ‘to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food’. Sixty years after signing that declaration of good will, […]
→ read full articleTHERE ARE BETTER OPTIONS
Daniel Levy, Haaretz,
16 Sep 2008
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→ read full articleSHATTERING A ‘NATIONAL MYTHOLOGY’
Ofri Ilani, Haaretz,
16 Sep 2008
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→ read full articleLANGUAGE, THE FIRST CASUALTY OF WAR
Daniel Larison,
14 Sep 2008
Missing from most of the commentary on the brief war in Georgia was anymention of the contorted use language in Western news coverage andopinion writing. While there have been some reasonable observers discussing the conflict in Georgia, most mainstream reporting and commentary have persistently described the conflict as the “rape" of Georgia in which its […]
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