Category: Focus in the News

  The New York Times September 9, 2006 By STEVEN R. WEISMAN and WAYNE ARNOLD   WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 — The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, two organizations that repeatedly praise the role of...

Green Left Weekly, August 9, 2006. Steve O’Brien, Durban Organisers are expecting 100,000 people to attend the Nairobi World Social Forum next January in Kenya. While some smaller regional meetings have been held, this...

Marwaan Macan-Markar, BANGKOK, Jul 31 (IPS) BANGKOK, Jul 31 (IPS) – It was inevitable: Singapore had to bare the police state soul that lurks behind its modern steel-and-glass buildings and elegant shopping emporia. And...

The PCIJ Channel ( Posted by Alecks Pabico ) In i Report, contributor Herbert Docena, who is with the regional research organizaton Focus on the Global South, however thinks the crisis is no longer about Arroyo’s political...

KASAMA Vol. 20 No. 1 / January-February-March 2006 / Solidarity Philippines Australia Network By Walden Bello It is becoming increasingly clear that the main beneficiary of the stalemate between an unpopular and illegitimate...

by Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Feb. 23, 2006 (IPS/GIN) — She was pregnant with her first child, and a woman on the run. She was on a "wanted list" for her human rights campaigns. She had little choice but to go...