09/02/2010
World Social Forum, ten years on
The WSF achieved its goal. Event after event attracted ever more participants, culminating in 130,000 at the latest meeting in January 2009 in Belem, Brazil, although it is true that the political and media impact of the early years has waned. Then, the criticisms and proposals of the Forum had the same echo as the pronouncements in Davos. Today, this has changed. By Esther Vivas. (04/02/10)
Roots of Liberty, Roots of Disaster
The disaster, in which hundreds of thousands of Haitians may eventually perish, was unleashed by the 7.0 earthquake. An earthquake is simply a natural hazard that in and of itself may or may not result in disaster. When vulnerability is low, a hazard has little or no effect. When it is high, disasters are severe. By Eric Holt Gimenez. (28/01/10)
The U.S. and its unruly Latin American 'backyard'
U.S. aggressiveness towards the Venezuelan, Bolivian, and Ecuadorian governments has increased in response to diminishing U.S. influence over the Latin American and Caribbean area, which Washington has been blaming on Hugo Chávez in particular. By Éric Toussaint (26/01/10)
Haiti: Grants to repay an odious debt?
There is a great risk that one of the largest relief operations in history will be similar in nature to the tsunami relief efforts in 2004, unless a radically different approach to a reconstruction model is adopted. By Eric Toussaint & Sophie Perchellet. (18/01/10)
CO2: The new Indulgencies Trade
The rich buy "Carbon Credits" to have their emissions forgiven and force developing countries to keep their present emission levels. The effect is to freeze the uneven distribution of global wealth. By Umberto Mazzei. (11/01/10)
How the myth of unlimited growth is destroying the planet
We need to look at how the issue of what we call climate crisis is framed. Once you refer to it as a climate crisis, you limit the debate to how much carbon there is in the atmosphere. It becomes a technical problem… this is really about the need to change a whole pattern of civilisation. (TNI interviews Edgardo Lander). (17/12/09)
What has changed with the governments pro change?
In issue 450-451 of the Spanish language magazine América Latina en Movimiento various social coordinating bodies present their reading of Latin America in the present period, assess the progress and setbacks of the progressive governments, demand a change of course, and identify the new challenges of regional integration. (14/12/10)
WTO: Lucidity flashes at the Ministerial
This year ends with large international meetings, all of them in Europe. In Rome, the World Food Summit, FAO. In Lisbon, the Ibero-American Conference. In Geneva, the Conference of the Global System of Trade Preferences, UNCTAD and the Ministerial Conference of WTO. In Copenhagen the Climate Conference. By Umberto Mazzei (14/12/09)
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