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Issue
No. 225 (May 2009)
COVER:
The IMF: Real change or more of the same?
The
IMF: Resurgent but unchanged
The IMF is still pursuing the
discredited policy conditions it imposes on countries seeking loans.
BY BHUMIKA MUCHHALA
A
new life for the IMF: Capitalising on crisis
The IMF is fully back in business
with new casualties and fresh funds without preconditions.
BY ROBERT WEISSMAN
IMF
voting shares: No plans for significant changes
The latest proposal to reform the IMF governance structure is unlikely
to alter the current balance of power.
BY MARK WEISBROT and JAKE JOHNSTON
ECOLOGY
Legendary
Vietnamese general fights to save environment
97-year-old Vo Nguyen Giap is now campaigning to save Vietnam’s
Central Highlands from bauxite mining.
BY TIM FAWTHROP
ECONOMICS
A
world without tax havens?
The G20’s promise to tackle tax havens remains questionable.
BY JOHN CHRISTENSEN
WORLD AFFAIRS
Philippines:
'Death at 4:30 pm'
Activists who resist the Arroyo-backed
mining programme face intimidation or death.
BY BRAD MILLER
Latin America
changes: Hunger strikes, coca leaves and underground diplomacy
Recent developments in Bolivia reflect
the great changes taking place in Latin America
BY BENJAMIN DANGL
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Peru: Battle
for the Amazon
President Alan Garcia's moves to open
up the Amazon for foreign exploitation of natural resources are provoking
fierce indigenous resistance.
BY KIRAZ JANICKE
New president
promises to beat poverty in El Salvador
Mauricio Funes has pledged to carry out
a 'peaceful, democratic and ethical revolution'.
BY RAUL GUTIERREZ
Israel: 'Racists
for Democracy'
A new Israeli law threatens imprisonment
for those who deny that Israel is a Jewish and democratic state.
BY URI AVNERY
HUMAN RIGHTS
Rights-based
approach to food crisis needed - UN expert
Food must be considered a human right, says Olivier de Schutter.
BY KANAGA RAJA
WOMEN
The
gender agenda in Venezuela
There have been significant and, in some cases, radical improvements
in the lives of ordinary Venezuelan women.
BY NANDI MGIJIMA
VIEWPOINT
Somalia:
Pirates or saviours of the coast?
The issue of Somali sea piracy is not a simple law-and-order problem.
BY ANDREW MWANGURA
Burma:
Character assassination, or something worse?
Burma’s rulers may take their efforts to silence Aung San Suu Kyi
a step further.
BY KYAW ZWA MOE
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