Opinion and Analysis from OneWorld UK

Washington must cut the umbilical cords that ties it to Tel Aviv. If it doesn’t, the conflict in the Middle East will hasten American decline, argues Martin jacques.

As Honduras descends into chaos with the ousting of the President, Pedro Landa says the disintegration of democracy was “inevitable”.

The Pakistan Army has forced the Taliban to flee Mingora. But nobody else wants to live there now, either, says Iqbal Khattak, while Manzoor Ali Shah notes that Swat cannot yet be considered a post-Taliban district.

Is strategic communications more than spinning for warfare - putting a little lipstick on a pig of a combat mission, asks Rohan Jayasekera.

Pakistan's nuclear arsenal has been the object of US encouragement over the years and is still receiving crucial US financial assistance and technical support, says Andrew Cockburn.

R. K. Pachauri calls on journalists to maintain focus on the scientific rationale for action in their coverage of climate change.

It is clear that the rise of China marks the end of western global hegemony, but just what the coming Chinese ascendency will look like is another matter.

Rwanda's Science and technology Minister, Professor Romain Murenzi, says science and technology will be at the heart of his country's development strategies.

By focussing on the performance of Western leaders and on Ms. Obama's and Mme Bruni's fashion-trendsetting dresses, the media has missed the point: the vacuousness of the recent round of global summitry in the face of five major global crises, says Jan Oberg.

If any lesson is to come out of the current financial crisis, it is that the pipedream of corporate social responsibility needs to be shelved, argues Marcin Bondarowicz.

A mass campaign is needed to convince the Sinhalese majority that devolution and democratisation are in its interest as much as they are in the interest of Sri Lanka’s minorities, says Rohini Hensman.

Only four members of the UN voted against the Declaration on Indigenous Rights in 2007 - Canada, New Zealand and the US. Three are members of the Commonwealth.

Some of President Barack Obama's decisions on Bagram, the US prison in Afghanistan, have "quietly signaled support for many of Bush's 'war on terror' policies," says Stacy Sullivan.

The spate of lese-majesty cases in Thailand is a manifestation of a turn away from the democratic and social developments of the 1990s and back towards the outdated authoritarianism of earlier decades, says an Asian rights group.

Remember when environmentalists had no thought for people, and people interested in development ignored the environment? It’s like that now between the climate and development communities, says OneWorld's Daniel Nelson.

Ahead of a key House of Lords hearing, Sean Carey reflects on the disgraceful way Britain annexed a group of islands and dislodged a people to give the US an airbase.

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.

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.

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

NEW YORK, Jul 5 (OneWorld) - As global concerts raise the profile of climate protection among viewers on all seven continents this weekend, some 10,000 "satellite" events are expected to bring millions of individuals into the action to help stop climate change.