Analysis/Opinion

13.05.2008 Why do some people continue to hold Rachel Carson responsible for millions of malaria deaths, ask John Quiggin and Tim Lambert.
From Prospect magazine

08.05.2008 A study by the world's leading experts has revealed that airlines are pumping 20 per cent more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than estimates suggest.
From: The Independent

07.05.2008 President Bush asked last week that the United States give $770 million in emergency food aid to afflicted regions, but this only amounts to an imperfect first step to confront the global food crisis, says economist Arvind Subramanian.

06.05.2008 The West is projecting not only its own spiritual fantasies on Tibet, but its own economic fears on China, imagining a power struggle quite different from that which has actually happened in Tibet. We have to learn to look at Tibet as it is – and China too, says Slavoj Zizek.

06.05.2008 Coca-Cola is looking to make huge profits as one of the three primary sponsors of the Olympic Torch Relay despite flagrant human rights abuses perpetrated by China, writes grassroots activist Amit Srivastava.

05.05.2008 Over 30,000 passionate protesters took to the streets last week to oppose immigration raids and deportations, reflecting a revitalized unity and fervor in the immigrants' rights community, writes Roberto Lovato.

05.05.2008 Peasants' and other grassroots organizations are promoting change in Haiti, write two agricultural activists who paid a visit to the Caribbean island, where they found food scarcity, environmental damage, and general insecurity are widespread.

05.05.2008 The American Petroleum Institute has just begun running a feel-good commercial that argues "America's future" lies in drilling out domestic reserves of oil and natural gas.
From: Gristmill

04.05.2008 Just as the need for renewables becomes critical, the oil giants signal an alarming retreat, writes Jeremy Leggett.
From: The Guardian

04.05.2008 Thirty-nine "predators of press freedom" - men and women who directly attack journalists or order others to - are named and shamed.

03.05.2008 "Dead zones" containing too little oxygen for fish to breathe are growing as global temperatures increase.
From: New Scientist

02.05.2008 Iraqis that have fled to Jordan and Syria are only managing to get by because they help each other, writes a U.S. peace advocate after meeting with refugees and the groups that support them in Amman.

02.05.2008 A security think tank updates readers on recent statements made by Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Barack Obama regarding Iraq, Iran, nuclear weapons and proliferation, India, and North Korea.

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.

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.

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.

18.01.2008 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).

15.11.2007 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.

14.08.2007 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.