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No curto espaço de uma semana, o Brasil viu-se como protagonista em duas questões centrais para a humanidade. Primeiramente quando Lula é condecorado pela ONU com a medalha pelos esforços no combate à fome, fato que a mídia comercial escondeu, para espanto geral. Segundo porque neste final de semana (...)

Matt Ryan, the mayor of Binghamton, New York, is sick and tired of watching people in local communities “squabble over crumbs,” as he puts it, while so much local money pours into the Pentagon’s coffers and into America’s wars. He’s so sick and tired of it, in fact, that, urged on by local (...)

Helen Thomas, a veteran reporter, asked the question at a White House press conference on al-Qaeda and terrorism. US administration officials stonewalled. “In these times” asked several contributors with various profiles, including Noam Chomsky and Gaytari Chakravorty Spivak, to provide some (...)

Entre las posibilidades que se plantean y que son mencionadas por los autores del libro, se encuentran: la derrota militar de alguno de los actores enfrentados o la solución política negociada. Aunque el fortalecimiento y modernización de las Fuerzas Armadas y la implementación de la Política de (...)

Over the past three decades, in the shadow of hostile nationalisms fuelled by radical Islamic and Hindu politics, military crises, a runaway arms race, nuclear weapons and war, an amazing set of civil society initiatives has been taking root in India and Pakistan. A citizens’ diplomacy movement (...)

L’accord d’Ihusi signé en mars 2009 entre le gouvernement congolais et les groupes armés du Kivu, dans l’est de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC), prévoit la prise en charge des miliciens invalides. Cet accord exclut les militaires loyalistes blessés de guerre, qui trouvent cette mesure injuste (...)

Nonviolent rights activits in Gujarat are being branded maoists and jailed, reports Parvaiz Bukhari. Dangs is the smallest and perhaps the most scenic Adivasi district of Gujarat. As you soak in the beauty and breathe the fresh air, Ashish Pawar, a young Adivasi activist acting as a guide, (...)

In Nigeria, patterns of “religious” massacre are many decades old, but it is wrong to see this as simple “sectarianism”. A poor society facing modernisation at the hands of corrupt elites is vulnerable to the use of violence as a means of asserting economic and political power and the mobilisation (...)

Assim, que terminou ontem (13/4), em Washington, a Cúpula de Segurança Nuclear (Nuclear Security Summit), convocada pelo governo dos Estados Unidos, a mídia internacional chamou atenção para... Teerã. Iniciativa de Barack Obama, a cúpula tem importância real. Seu objetivo é evitar que a ameaça da (...)

There is a lot of news about nuclearism these days. But to cut through the verbiage of treaties and agreements and summits, and move people from fear to action, we need to focus on three concepts. The United States is the biggest problem when it comes to nuclear weapons. We need a new treaty to (...)

Não são poucas as matérias, na imprensa nacional e internacional, que tratam de apontar para suposto isolamento do governo brasileiro na discussão sobre sanções contra o país dirigido por Mahmud Ahmadinejad.
Mesmo setores progressistas torcem o nariz com a insistência do presidente Lula em defender (...)

The ambitious desire to close Guantánamo hailed the coming of a new era, a feeling implicitly recognised by the Nobel peace prize that President Obama received. Unfortunately, what we witnessed was a false dawn. The lawyers for the Guantánamo detainees with whom I am in touch in the US speak of (...)

The first decade of the 21st century has been dominated by wars that have killed or injured close to half a million people, wars that arose after determined paramilitaries used parcel-knives to exploit the weaknesses of the world’s most advanced state. That incident might in principle have been (...)

Entrevista a Julian Harston, ex-Representante del Secretario General de la ONU. Nacido en Nairobi en 1942, este diplomático británico acumula en su oficina en Belgrado multitud de recuerdos que hablan, de manera fascinante, de sus destinos anteriores. Tras cuatro décadas de servicio internacional (...)

The Stockholm Programme, the latest in a series of EU agreements on security policy, was endorsed in December 2009. Based on the "principle of availability", the Programme plans to enable the cross-border collection, processing and sharing of data on a massive scale. Supposedly promoting (...)

Since Afghanistan now grows the opium poppies that provide more than 90% of the world’s opium, the raw material for the production of heroin, it’s not surprising that drug-trade news and war news intersect from time to time. More surprising is how seldom poppy growing and the drug trade are (...)

Selon Dimity Hawkins, directeur de la Campagne internationale pour l’abolition des armes nucléaires (ICAN), l’histoire n’a jamais fourni un meilleur moment pour agir sur le désarmement nucléaire. Le désir de libérer le monde de 23.300 armes nucléaires actuellement dans des stocks mondiaux fait (...)

In the London Review of Books, Tariq Ali tells about his recent trip to Yemen, after Obama and other US politicians started hinting that this country might become a new frontline yet in the ’war on terror’.
Recounting the country’s history since World War II, and in particular the war and (...)

La Côte d’Ivoire et le Ghana vont-il s’affronter autour du pétrole découvert à la frontière des deux pays ? La polémique est lancée, même si Abidjan et Accra jouent la carte de la diplomatie dans la gestion de ce dossier. Bertrand Gueu note que, vue d’Abidjan, la question fait plus l’objet de silences (...)

African pastoralism has been dismissed as outdated and inefficient. But awareness of its social and environmental benefits is growing. Read more here (Part 1) and here (Part 2).