Responsibly Destroying the World's Peasantry
BRUSSELS: The World Bank, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Secretariat recently…
Financial Re-Regulation and Democracy
NEW YORK: It has taken almost two years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and more than three years since the beginning of the global recession brought on by the…
Haiti's State-Building Challenge
SANTO DOMINGO: The $5 billion in short-term aid for Haiti, and the $10 billion pledged for its long-term reconstruction at the International Donors’ Conference on March 31, is a vote…
Why Talk to Iran?
WASHINGTON, DC: June 12 marks the first anniversary of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election as Iran’s president. Despite the Iranian opposition’s continuing efforts to contest the outcome and advance political liberalization,…
Cordoba House, Ground Zero and overcoming the fear of Islam
LOS ANGELES, California: On June 6 some organizations, such as Stop Islamization of America, Jihad Watch and the Tea Party movement, have planned a demonstration in New York to protest…
Do-It-Yourself Genetic Tests
LONDON: If you were hoping to pick up a DNA kit along with your shampoo from the drugstore, you would be out of luck. The United States Food and Drug…
Israel's Debacle at Sea
HAIFA: Israel was dead wrong in launching an attack by naval commandos against a flotilla carrying pro-Palestinian activists who were making an attempt to break the Israeli-Egyptian siege of Gaza.…
Top health journal slams WHO's handling of pandemic
PARIS: The World Health Organization’s handling of the swine flu pandemic was deeply marred by secrecy and conflict of interest with drug companies, a top medical journal said Friday. The…
UN rights experts keep up pressure on secret detentions
GENEVA: UN rights experts called Thursday for action and prosecutions to end the secret detention of terror suspects, in which it alleges 66 countries including the United States are involved.…
Netanyahu considers easing Gaza blockade: television
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could ease the blockade imposed on Gaza following international criticism of the deadly raid on an aid flotilla, Israeli media reported on Thursday. The…