Opinion

Crisis of capitalism

10 December 2010 -

Lecture given at the Conference on the ‘Crisis of Capitalism, Welfare State and Labour’, Madrid, November 18, 2010. The Conference was organized by Instituto de Cultura del Sur, an institution under the patronage of eight municipalities of Madrid. Other participants on this Conference were Roberto Savio (WSF), Susan George, Ricardo Petrella, Rémy H ...

Opinion

Conflict Prevention: the Ultimate Casualty of the Osh Violence?

7 December 2010 -

“For years, there has been a part of the development sector that existed and expanded on the assumption that the Ferghana was soon to explode”, a former colleague in Kyrgyzstan said after the violence in the south which left between 300 and 800 dead in June 2010. “Eventually they got more than they could deal with.”

Opinion

More is more

26 October 2010 -

Wikileaks, an online repository of classified documents leaked anonymously by whistleblowers, is drawing criticism after posting close to 400.000 classified documents detailing American military operations in Iraq, and gruesome details of detainee abuse by American-sponsored Iraqi security personnel. Beyond discomfort to the defense establishm ...

Opinion

Brussels pouts

22 October 2010 -

“The occupation must end.” - “Anti-Semite!” Five words; a mere two phrases suffice to sum up the dialog-gerheads between a growing chorus of American citizens, European citizens, trade unions, academia, an ever-shifting panoply of online forums, and Israel. Brussels, as the personification of what’s perceived by many Israelis as a mainly European b ...

Opinion

The greener, the sooner

7 October 2010 -

In a true Copernican shift, our lives will start to veritably revolve around the sun.

News

Zoellick: 'The end of the Third World'

14 April 2010 -

For decades, students of security and international politics have debated the emergence of a multipolar system. It’s time we recognize the new economic parallel.

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Afghanistan. A moment of reflection. [opinion]

19 February 2010 -

As the United States deposits tens of thousands more boots on Afghan soil, in addition to the roughly 65.000 soldiers already there, launching an Iraq-like ‘surge’ in a bid to recapture what’s been euphemistically dubbed ‘momentum’, a brief instant of reflection might be in order.