My old friend Peter Kimani in Nairobi has just added a comment to Anthony Barnett's article on the World Social Forum. The local perspective is harsh. He says
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by Rafael Broch
In the final years of the nineteenth century, King Leopold II of Belgium was busy plundering rubber from the Congo Free State. The officers of his Force
by Felix Cohen
I had to ask him to repeat himself. The representative from Remy Martin had just told me that the bottle of Cognac I was holding was one
by Jessica Reed
She may be the queen of the diplomatic gaffes - the political Becassine without a tangible program -but it makes little doubt that her "participative democracy&
Bono, Mbeki, Blair gathered for the high-profile Africa session yesterday, with Kumi Naidoo from Civicus amongst the team gathered around the media-friendly table surrounded in fishbowl style by the concerned
For the past week I've sat in on a civil court case so boring you will never read about it in a newspaper.
The attorneys were shoddy, the
by Jessica Reed
Tired of the hypocrisy surrounding anti-gay and homophobic policy makers (think: Ted Haggard, who counselled George W. Bush) blogger Bilerico decided the LGBT community had enough. The
by Tan Copsey
Sorry, I know overt alliteration is for demented 15 year old’s who have discovered ‘poetry’, but I’m quite excited. Rolling Stone has run a piece
This Saturday thousands of protesters are jumping on buses to Washington DC to protest the war in Iraq. The behemoth coalition United for Peace and Justice is organising. Over a
by Tan Copsey
As you may have read elsewhere Washington’s annual fest of pageantry and enforced pleasantry has been and gone. State of the Union ‘07 in its wake
"China", argues the dean of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, "is not to shake the world, they want it to remain as it
