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Issue
No. 227 (July 2009)
COVER:
The H1N1 swine flu pandemic and the globalisation of industrial livestock
farming
H1N1
and the great swine cover-up
Mexico’s experience highlights the risks posed by corporate factory
farms.
BY LAURA CARLSEN
A
food system that kills
A trustworthy public health system is urgently needed.
BY GRAIN
The
hog industry strikes back
Smithfield Foods’ evasion of culpability for the current pandemic
shows just how powerful the US hog industry is.
BY ROBERT WALLACE
Poor
countries worry about flu vaccine shortage
Developing countries are being left behind in the race to get scarce
vaccines.
BY MARTIN KHOR
The
global response to swine flu: ‘the brighter side of globalisation’ or
just reinforcing inequalities?
The difficulties of tacking a global pandemic in a divided world
have been exposed.
BY MARION BIRCH
ECOLOGY
India: Rural
self-sufficiency
The potential of renewable energy sources has been tapped by a local
Tamil Nadu initiative.
BY SANDIP CHATTOPADHYAY
ECONOMICS
Collapse of mineral
prices poses a challenge to African reform agenda
A multi-layered reform agenda to improve the benefits of mining
for Africans is under threat.
BY ABDULAI DARIMANI and KWESI W OBENG
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WORLD
AFFAIRS
Pan-Africanism
in Mwalimu Nyerere’s thought
A review of the contribution of Pan-Africanism’s pioneers.
BY ISSA G SHIVJI
Honduras:
The forces behind the coup
An insight into the economic and social groups behind the seizure
of power.
Columbia: US bases
stoke the flames of regional conflict
Colombia’s decision to permit the US to use military bases in its
territory has drawn fire.
BY ROQUE PLANAS
HUMAN RIGHTS
UN conference
calls for action on investigation findings on Gaza war
Experts call for the release of and follow-up action on the UN Sec-Gen’s
inquiry into the Gaza conflict.
BY RIAZ K TAYOB
WOMEN
Afghanistan,
Gaza and the battle for improved maternal and infant healthcare in Gaza
Due to the Israeli blockade,
hospital care for Gaza mothers and newborns is deteriorating.
VIEWPOINT
Fast-tracked
swine flu vaccine under fire
The swine flu vaccines are far more deadly than the virus itself.
BY MAE-WAN HO and JOE CUMMINS
ACTIONS AND ALTERNATIVES
One person, one
vote
Latin American communities affected by dams and mines are uniting
to organize their own local referenda.
BY MONTI AGUIRRE
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