by Javad Heydarian*Today’s Turkey bears little resemblance to its former self. The 20th century Turkey was a staunch U.S. ally, unconditionally committed to join the European community, fiercely secularist, authoritarian and...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello*From Foreign Policy in Focus, Dec 13, 2010The financial collapse of Ireland, coming as the latest in a string of disasters, hardly shocks global public opinion. For people engaged in the development debate,...
Read MoreAditi Bhaduri*On a lovely autumn day in late October I landed in Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Mellow sunshine bathed the town in a warm glow. I was back there after five years and...
Read MoreBrendan Smith*[Original Posted here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brendan-smith/fighting-doom-the-new-pol_b_782723.html]I am not an environmentalist. But all I think about these days is the climate crisis.I admit I have arrived...
Read MoreDale Jiajun Wen*While preparing an article for a US audience, a US colleague asked me some very good questions related to China and climate change. Below you can find my personal take on these questions as an independent China...
Read MoreLarry Lohmann*Ask anybody what Mexico’s most famous exports are these days and the answer is likely to come with a sardonic smile and a roll of the eyes northward: people and drugs.Now the country has a new export product, also...
Read Moreby Pablo Solon*(Published in guardian.co.uk, Tue 30 Nov 2010)As climate talks start this week in Cancún, the common refrain that pervades the media and some negotiators is of “low expectations.” I wonder whose expectations they...
Read MoreGlobal Justice Ecology Project Around 1:00 on the last day of COP16, a dozen or so activists staged an action at the Moon Palace in Cancun to protest the silencing of civil society voices by the UNFCCC. Their mouths taped over...
Read MoreAlthough the bi-regional trade negotiation between the EU and ASEAN or the EU-ASEAN FTA has been putting on hold since last year, the bilateral track between the EU and selected ASEAN countries has shaped up with speed. An FTA...
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Truths and Myths about Global Warming: Footprints, Cloth Bags & Change
Read MoreOn 6 November 2010, Focus staff member Mr. Joseph Purugganan traveled to South Korea to attend civil society events parallel to the official Summit of the Group of Twenty (G-20) in Seoul. Despite being granted a valid visa, and...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello*
My position on the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program, which was posted on the Philippine Daily Inquirer website, elicited a lot of comment, most of it positive, some negative. Among the responses was one from Rep. Teddy Casino of Bayan Muna who rejects CCTs. Unfortunately, his intervention, for the most part, failed to engage the substantive issues I raised and turned instead into a highly charged invective against my “opportunism.”
Read More13th November 2010The Forum Against FTAs (Free Trade Agreements), held a meeting on 13 November 2010, at the Constitution Club, New Delhi, India in order to voice concerns and discuss issues pertaining to the proposed EU-India...
Read MoreRegistration for the centralized edition of the 2011 World Social Forum is now open! The Forum is going to be held in Dakar, capital of Senegal on February 06-11 2011. The general guidelines from the WSF Organization is that...
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