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- How ethnic is ethnic cleansing
- By Jack Goody, New Left Review,
January–February 2001. Religion—inherently
threatened by apostasy or conversion—is a stronger
marker of communal conflict and mass expulsion than an
ill-defined ethnicity.
- The social wars
- By Ignacio Ramonet, Le Monde diplomatique,
November 2002. Surprising though it may seem, and contrary
to the media impression, the world is actually a calm and
largely pacified place. Political armed struggle is less
widespread, although there are other forms of violence at
work. The great paradox of our time is that billions of
wretched of the earth are keeping politically quiet.
- Can ordinary people regain their power of
decision? International law: justice as a commodity
- By Nuri Albala, Le Monde diplomatique,
December 2003. International law now has some jurisdiction
over dictators and war criminals, but not yet over economic
crime: it reflects the balance of world power and is just as
cowardly as the states that make it.
- Speech by President Hugo Chavez, at the
Opening of XII G-15 Summit
- By President Hugo Chavez, Monday 1 March 2004. A clear
historic trend: the need of the self-awareness of the South
and of acting together in a world reality characterized by
imbalance and unequal exchange. Propose the creation of a TV
channel that could be seen throughout the world showing
information and pictures from the South.
- ‘US is bigger threat than
terror’
- BBC News, 9 April 2004. Globalisation and the US pose a
more serious threat to the world than war and terrorism,
according to a BBC poll. Corruption came
second. Conflicts—war and terrorism—ranked
third.