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    Venezuela's CANTV: What should a 21st century "socialist” telecommunications company look like?

    Venezuela's revolution has often been tied to the slogan “Socialism in the 21st Century.” What might that might mean concretely in changes under way in the renationalised state telecommunications company, CANTV?

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  • Ending the US War in Afghanistan

    The recent civilian casualties demonstrate, for any who doubted it,  that this is a war against a vast population of Afghanistan, and the only way to stop killing civilians is to stop the killing. That means to stop all offensive actions and...

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  • Reclaiming public water 10 years after the 'Water War'

    Inspiring and informative video debate amongst global social movement leaders as they assess progress and challenges in the dynamic international movement to reclaim Public Water.

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  • Perspectives on regional integration

    The current paradigmatic crisis needs to be dealt with at the regional level. In this respect, Latin American movements have already mobilised and placed different models of development and integration at the centre of their struggle. However,...

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  • Countering illicit and unregulated money flows

    Since its beginnings in 1989, the international anti-money laundering regime has not worked as well as intended. After two decades of failed efforts, experts still ponder how to implement one that does work. A bolder initiative is required at the...

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Articles

  • Reciprocity!
    Saul Landau

    The CIA has backed some 600 documented attempts against Castro, while there have been no Havana-backed plots against U.S. Presidents. Should Cuba put Washington on its terrorist list? Long Live Reciprocity!

  • China Lassoes its Neighbors
    Walden Bello

    The China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA), went into effect on 1st of January tyis year. For China, the benefits are clear, but Southeast Asia will be paying a big price for a bad deal.

  • Israeli construction in East Jerusalem threatens renewed peace talks
    Phyllis Bennis

    Vice President Joe Biden is in the Middle East this week to promote restarting of the stalled peace talks, but the talks will not lead to anything unless the starting point is equality.

  • Equity: the unaddressed agenda
    Praful Bidwai

    India's Finance Minister's first budget has failed to seize an opportunity to raise social spending and reduce In­dia’s obscene rich-poor, inter-sectoral and geographical inequalities.

  • Department of Defense, Inc.
    Saul Landau
     Nelson Valdes

    Instead of Pentagon fighting healtcare for the lion's share of US budget, introducing a National Defense Medicare bill, lodged inside the Pentagon budget, would assume health care as just one more task in the unending challenge of defending our besieged nation.

  • Putin and Europe on the same crisis page
    Boris Kagarlitsky

    The
    current wave of strikes across Europe are only a prelude to what will
    come, as the ruling elite are not prepared to change their anti-crisis
    policies that have merely supported the corporations that caused the
    crisis.

  • Israel as a rogue state
    Praful Bidwai

    Israel's practice of illegal assasinations, such as the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhough in Dubai, is in line with its ruthless policy of consolidating its occupation, expanding illegal settlements, and tightening its economic hold over Palestinians — in defiance of Security Council resolutions and global opinion.

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Reports

  • The Statistics Bazaar
    Ricardo Vargas

    The drugs scene in Colombia is characterized by the fact that it is dominated by a confusion of insufficiently supported statistics and speculative diagnoses which produce policies that reflect this chaos.

  • Prohibition, a backwards step
    Diana Esther Guzmán, Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes

    In December 2009, the Congress in Colombia passed a constitutional reform that prohibits the consumption and possession of certain quantities of drugs for personal use, that had previously been legal in the 1991 Constitution. This regressive step is unlikely to reduce consumption and will probably increase overcrowding which plague some of the country’s major prison centres

  • The World Crisis and Beyond - Building a New Global Solidarity

    Neoliberal financial-market capitalism has dragged the world into a crisis which threatens human civilisation as such. Climate destruction, resource wars, and the transformation of democracy into oligarchy are in front of us if we don't act now to reduce the burden we place on our unfortunate planet and reorganise the society on the more egalitarian  basis.

  • Countering illicit and unregulated money flows
    Tom Blickman

    Since its beginnings in 1989, the international anti-money laundering regime has not worked as well as intended. After two decades of failed efforts, experts still ponder how to implement one that does work. A bolder initiative is required at the United Nations level, moving from recommendations to obligations, and fully engaging developing nations.

  • Civil Society in European-Chinese Relations

    In the context of the current state of European-Chinese relations and the limited influence of European NGOs on EU policies, this book discusses the challenges and dilemmas of co-operation between European and Chinese civil society organisations.

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  • Drug Law Reform Project

    The drug law reform project, in which a number of Latin American judicial experts and legislators participate, aims to promote more humane, balanced, and effective drug laws.

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