Analysis/Opinion

01.05.2008 The new liberal Israel lobby in the U.S. could change the Middle East debate in Washington. But it faces major obstacles, says Gideon Lichfield.

01.05.2008 The Haitian government and the international community contributed significantly to the dire situation that sparked the early April food riots in the Caribbean nation, writes anthropologist Mark Schuller.

01.05.2008 The U.S. President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is the largest funder of global HIV/AIDS programs yet receives continuous criticism from development and rights advocates. This in-depth report gives you "The Numbers Behind the Stories."

01.05.2008 In the United States, even the people with the lowest usage of energy are still producing, on average, more than double the global per-capita average, an MIT class has estimated.
From: Science Daily

01.05.2008 James Petras looks at two models of empire building which he says have been competing on a world scale: one predominantly based on military conquests, the other on large-scale, long-term economic penetration.

30.04.2008 General David Petraeus' new job may put him in position to follow through on his saber-rattling against Iran, says a Washington think tank.

29.04.2008 The world food crisis is hurting a lot of people, but global agribusiness firms, traders and speculators are raking in huge profits.

29.04.2008 It is impossible to promote a lasting Israeli-Palestinian peace without engaging Hamas, says a women-for-peace group referring to former U.S. President Carter's talks with the governing political party in Palestine, which is considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. government.

29.04.2008 In the wake of World Malaria Day, an anti-pesticide advocacy organization discusses the danger of spraying DDT to kill mosquitoes carrying the disease and promotes malaria prevention alternatives.

28.04.2008 Kenyans talk about how they feel they are denied basic human rights - views that are particularly revealing given the violence that followed the country's disputed election results.

28.04.2008 "After eight years of Putin, the country has a rubber-stamp parliament dominated by a single party, whose only stated policy is loyalty to the Kremlin," writes Fred Weir in Moscow.

27.04.2008 An unreported war is being waged by the US to restore power to the privileged classes at the expense of the poor, argues John Pilger.
From New Statesman

27.04.2008 Abahlali baseMjondolo, the South African shackdwellers' movement, gives a reminder that the structures of apartheid are still thriving in South Africa.

27.04.2008 Scientists must work harder at making the public aware of the stark difference between good science and "denialist spin" when it comes to climate change, says the Director of the Research Institute for Climate Change and Sustainability at the University of Adelaide, Australia.

25.04.2008 This week's alert on the growing global food crisis is perhaps the most worrying one we've ever sent, says OneWorld's managing editor in the United States.

10.04.2008 ASUNCION, Apr 10 (IPS) - For the first time in Paraguayan history, a woman is running for president in the elections on Apr. 20, as the candidate of the Colorado Party, which has governed this country continuously for 61 years.

28.03.2008 Zambia has been forced to reallocate resources intended for poverty alleviation to pay a "vulture fund," a company that scammed the impoverished nation to make millions off its cancellation of a 1999 debt, writes an organization promoting African development.

21.02.2008 It is high time for India and China to move beyond conflicts and start cooperating politically, economically, and technologically for mutual benefits, says Dr. Aqueil Ahmad.

20.02.2008 New knowledge about the mechanics of HIV transmission is already shaping new approaches to stopping the virus, says an anti-AIDS advocate reflecting on the news that a cream that was hoped to revolutionize how women protect themselves from AIDS had failed in clinical trials.
From: Global Campaign for Microbicides

30.01.2008 As the death toll from post-election violence in Kenya rises to an estimated 800, we have received a moving reaction from Father Gabriele Pipinato: "I do not want to tell you the horrors we have witnessed, but only say a few words about what our community is experiencing." Fr. Pipinato is a founding trustee of the OneWorld International Foundation.

17.01.2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 17 (OneWorld) - As they travel the country searching for votes, each of the big three Democratic candidates for president has pledged to withdraw large numbers of troops from Iraq during their first year in office.

05.01.2008 Net carbon uptake of northern ecosystems is decreasing in response to autumnal warming, according to findings recently published in the science journal Nature.
From: TerraDaily

21.12.2007 Protecting endangered peatland areas will drastically reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

17.12.2007 A free trade agreement launched last week between Peru and the U.S. "fails to deliver on its development potential and could further deepen poverty for Peru's poorest," writes an international humanitarian group.

14.12.2007 A recent UNICEF report signals progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.

24.11.2007 BONN, Nov 24 (IPS) - International negotiations beginning Dec. 3 in Bali are crucial for saving our planet from the devastating effects of global warming, says Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

14.11.2007 Experts from international development groups answer your questions about efforts to eradicate poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

09.10.2007 The 'American Century' began only 60 years ago but seems already to be over, with the Iraq disaster forcing some of the U.S. ruling elites to realise that its hegemony has been severely weakened. Nobody seems to know what to do next, or even how to behave, says Philip S Golub.

13.08.2007 WASHINGTON, Aug 13 (OneWorld) - The UN's recent decision to deploy a hybrid UN-African Union peacekeeping force to the war-torn region of Darfur, Sudan comes amid concerns that military might alone may not adequately address the fundamental causes of the conflict.

10.07.2007 The balance of voting in the United States Supreme Court is not quite as predictable as conservatives hope and liberals fear, says Godfrey Hodgson.
From openDemocracy