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Historical amnesia and Gaza (Video interview)
Israel's latest military attack against Gaza was planned six months ago, just as the ceasefire was being implemented, and it is the continuation of illegal acts against the people of Gaza since the occupation of 1967. The latest attack could not have happened without the US support - financial, military and diplomatic, argues Phyllis Bennis.
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The Bases of Empire: The global struggle against US military posts
 There are over nine hundred US military bases around the world, which have a devastating political, environmental, and economic impact on the surrounding communities across the globe. In this introduction Catherine Lutz traces the network of US bases, and describes the campaigns to hold the US accountable for the damage its bases cause in the host countries.
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The Coming Capitalist Consensus
 Economic and political elites are converging on Global Social Democracy as a solution to the current economic crisis. But we need more than social management, argues Walden Bello: we should aspire to paradigms of social organisation that aim for equality and participatory democratic control of both national and global economy.
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EU Land Policy and the Right to Food
 By Pascal Bergeret
The EU Land Policy Guidelines from 2004 contain clear recommendations to governments and donors engaged in land policy, which are geared towards the defence of small-scale family agriculture, and suggest steps towards legal recognition of customary rights.
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Transforming the global economy: solutions for a sustainable world (video)
 The financial crisis is only one aspect of a much bigger systemic crisis that encompasses the social, financial and ecological crises, says Susan George and suggests radical reforms that would create more just wealth distribution while saving the economy and the environment: an environmental Keynesianism.
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| Israel and international law (Video)
While certain key members of the UN apparatus have spoken out against the Israeli violations of international law, the power structure of the Security Council continues to make definitive action impossible, says Phyllis Bennis.
The Gaza Crisis: December 2008
Israel's illegal airstrikes against the population of Gaza have little to do with protecting Israeli civilians, argues Phyllis Bennis. They are used for internal Israeli politics and are also meant to push back any chance of serious negotiations between the parties that might have been part of the Obama administration's plans.
Israel detaining the UN
The decision to detain the UN's envoy fits a pattern of hiding the human consequences of the siege of Gaza from the world, argues Phyllis Bennis.
Wisdom of restraint
Post-Mumbai, India must recognise the fragility of Pakistan and the global stake in neutralising the extremist groups that have enjoyed its Army’s backing, argues Praful Bidwai.
Europe's big brothers
If the human right to privacy is to survive a generation, never mind another 60 years, then European societies must have a serious discussion about surveillance techniques, their limits and how to control them, write Thomas Hammarberg and Ben Hayes.
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