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As a group of the world's richest countries agree to temporarily freeze debt repayments of Asian countries hit by last month's tsunami, we speak with globalization expert Noreena Hertz, author of The Debt Threat: How Debt is Destroying the World....

Hope, as the theologian Jurgen Moltmann has explained, distinguishes humankind from all creation..Hope is a transnational category and cannot be only nationalist or myopic. Where there is danger, there is also hope (Schelling)....

There is a new anarchist discussion group meeting weekly in sacramento. Come check it out!...

You hear a lot of things when you work in a hotel lobby. One guest, commenting to her companions on the tsunami disaster in Indonesia, declared, without shame, that "the place is an al-Qaeda breeding ground, you know."...

Todd Gitlin, Paul Berman and assorted intellectuals of the “decent left” have earned their keep arguing that anti-imperialism is nothing but an echo chamber of nihilism, oedipal rage and tacit support for whomever the governing class declares the enemy. Once upon a time their kind derided the Communist left as window dressing for the gulag; now they argue with parallel duplicity that anti-imperialists are shills for “Islamo-fascist” death cults and suicide bombers. As the gate-keepers of acce...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is supposed to safeguard the nation's medical products, but they're "taking care of business rather than patient safety",says FDA's associate safety director Dr. David J. Graham. In interviews, he and others highlight the all too brutal facts....

Background on Aceh: 1999-2000 nonviolent independence movement....

From December 29 to January 1, a WSWS team spoke with tsunami survivors in and around the eastern Sri Lankan town of Ampara. At least 25,000 people from the area were killed and more than 166,000 were left homeless by the December 26 tragedy. Another 80,000 are now living in refugee camps....

"Of the estimated $40 billion the United States is expected to spend on intelligence this year, experts say at least 50 percent will go to private contractors," says Tim Shorrock...

We speak with Australian journalist Peter Symonds about the lack of warning systems in Asia that could have prevented tens of thousands of people from being killed in the tsunami disaster....