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Issue
No. 226 (June 2009)
COVER:
Back to the UN: Historic conference addresses global economic crisis
UN
sets big agenda for economic crisis action
The UN conference laid the groundwork for assisting crisis-hit developing
countries and reforming the financial system.
BY MARTIN KHOR
Economic
crisis: rich countries block reform at UN summit
The world’s richest countries will continue fighting to prevent
the UN from taking the lead in economic and financial affairs.
UN finance conference
adopts outcome document, but differences remain
The reservations expressed about the outcome document show the great
divide between rich and poor nations.
BY BHUMIKA MUCHHALA and MEENA RAMAN
South’s
leaders stress the UN’s leading role in economic affairs
Developing-country leaders emphasise the importance and legitimacy
of the UN.
BY BHUMIKA MUCHHALA
Conference
panel calls for debt moratorium and arbitration system
Developing countries need to avoid a new external debt crisis.
BY MEENA RAMAN
North’s
bailouts destroyed trading system’s playing field, says Stiglitz
Bailouts have destroyed the framework for an international, multilateral
trading system, says Joseph Stiglitz.
BY BHUMIKA MUCHHALA
‘Developing
countries must lead process to realize conference goals’
The realization of solutions to critical issues depends on how developing
countries lead the process for change.
BY YILMAZ AKYÜZ
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ECOLOGY
A global land-grab
Locals are brushed aside amidst
the clamouring of others for their land.
BY MARTIN LARGE AND NEIL RAVENSCROFT
WORLD AFFAIRS
Honduran coup:
Same story, different stage, new reality
The country’s traditional elite which backed the coup remain defiant.
BY MICHAEL FOX
Iran:
A nation divided
A schism threatens to break apart Iranian society.
BY ALIREZA DOOSTDAR
The
Israel Project’s secret hasbara handbook exposed
A propaganda handbook lays bare the Israel Project’s tactics for
shaping US public opinion in favour of Israel.
BY RICHARD SILVERSTEIN
Forget
the headlines: Iraqi freedom deferred
Is Iraq really on the road to recovering its full sovereignty?
BY RAMZY BAROUD
WOMEN
Seasonal widows
The wives of Brazil’s internal migrant workers call themselves ‘widows
of living husbands’.
BY MARIO OSAVA
VIEWPOINT
Why programmes
fail
A well-known scientist attempts to explain why development programmes
mostly fail to deliver.
BY RICHARD LEVINS
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