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The carnage in Mumbai has made the need for President-elect Barack Obama to engage with the web of crises in the Middle East and South Asia more urgent and will compete with his economic...

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As President-elect Barack Obama focuses on the meltdown of the U.S. economy, another fire is burning: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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The disadvantages of being a writer, who is often written about, are numerous. I begin with an enthusiastic call to my 81-year old mother, hoping to share my enthusiasm from an assignment abroad....

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The rapidly mushrooming debate about the relationship between the Obama administration and the progressive wing of the Democratic Party suffers from an unnecessary lack of clarity because many of...

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I feel blessed that at ninety-three I am still around to tell a new generation of movement activists the story of why James and I wrote Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century (RETC) in...

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Martin Khor and Mark Weisbrot discuss appropriate regulatory mechanisms needed to prevent another similar crisis, and steps governments can take to reduce the impacts in the real economy of the US...
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Today (December 1), a surreal event will take place in the centre of London. The Foreign Office is holding an open day "to highlight the importance of Human Rights in our work as part of the 60th...
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Supporters and opponents of Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution have come out with differing assessments post the November 23 regional elections, which Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had defined as...

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AT the weekend, media reports based on the interrogation of apparently the only terrorist to be captured alive in Mumbai, named as Azam Amir Kasab, evidently confirmed what many analysts - and most...

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Far be it from me to criticize a Nobel Prize-winner, but liberal New York Times columnist and Princeton economist Paul Krugman really dropped the ball three weeks ago on how progressives should...

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I will argue that the North-South conflict has played and continues to play a key role in affecting the United Nations, its work and its fortunes. Several fundamental reasons which account for this...

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The election of Barack Obama as the nation's first African American president has been heralded as proof that the United States has finally broken through the racial barrier. The image springs to...

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My stomach clenched the first time I heard that actor Stuart Townsend was making a mainstream movie about the 1999 shutdown of the WTO ministerial meetings, Battle in Seattle.

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On the eve of the invasion of Iraq, as our political figures and talking heads wrangled over the best way to babysit the cradle of civilization at the barrel of a gun, American poet and peace...

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English translation of interview from Beirut daily of Noam Chomsky by Assaf Kfoury

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It's been over a month since the beginning of the bailout binge, and little, if anything has changed. For, the bailout, from its inception, has been little more than a bait and switch.
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Like every other Indian, therefore, I am deeply saddened both by the insane loss of life, notable and ordinary, and by the damage done to this edifice. Especially when I recall that the Taj was...

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Sheila Rowbotham offers the comprehensive, critical, contextualized biography Edward Carpenter deserves

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What exquisite timing! A spoof of the New York Times on the theme of “all the news we hope to print” (dated July 4, 2009) appeared this November and was distributed across the U.S.A. This utopian...

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The superlatives of the global economic meltdown of 2008 are, well, superlative. Professor Noriel Roubini of New York University says the current crisis is "the largest leveraged asset bubble and...

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Barry's uniformed head to foot in camouflage gear and armed with one of Christensen Arms' very best products - "a tremendous rifle ...a no-kick baby, a beautiful gun...If you ever get a chance to...

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Let us assume that the current theory of terrorists being trained in Pakistan and sent across to Mumbai is indeed true. The apt and proper response of the Indian government is to co-ordinate with...

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Eman, an Afghan woman's rights activist with RAWA tells Uprising host, Sonali Kolhatkar, that Obama must end the occupation.

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I’m not sure where to start with this volume – other than to say it is a history so out of context and so biased in its language that it is essentially meaningless. If a scientist were to isolate...

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Actor and filmmaker Sean Penn talks with Raul Castro about Obama, Guantanamo and the Pentagon; and with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on human rights in his country and the next US administration.
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The time for Obama and his "change" phrases will soon get tested. As candidate, he wisely refrained from spelling out the specifics of policies the country needed or what he actually planned to do...
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The terrorist assault on Mumbai’s five-star hotels was well planned, but did not require a great deal of logistic intelligence: all the targets were soft. The aim was to create mayhem by shining...

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Jean Ziegler is a senior professor of sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris. He is one of the leading protagonists in the world for the anti-globalization movement and has...

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A few months ago I found myself at a meeting of economists and finance officials, discussing - what else? - the crisis. There was a lot of soul-searching going on. One senior policy maker asked,...

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When Gaza's electricity is in working order, most Palestinians in the impoverished and overcrowded Strip huddle around their television screens. It's neither "American Idol" nor "Dancing with the...

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Last week, Guardian News & Media (GNM) published 'Living Our Values', an independently audited account of the company's annual performance on sustainability issues. GNM, which encompasses the...

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On Friday, columnist David Brooks informed readers that Barack Obama's picks "are not ideological." The incoming president's key economic advisers "are moderate and thoughtful Democrats," while...
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Uproar in Britain over the arrest and interrogation of a leading opposition MP under counter-terror laws because he confronted the government over information ministers would not like to go public....

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While there is little question that the United States - with its burgeoning police state, its infamous title as the world leader in jailing its own citizens, and its history of foreign and domestic...

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