Ignacio Ramonet

The outcome depends on whether the Asian economies can take over from the US as the driving force. Another sign, perhaps, that the West is in decline and that the centre of the world economy is about to shift from the US to China. The crisis may mark the end of an era.

Few governments in the world have been victims of devastating campaigns full of hatred. The Venezuelan government, led by President Hugo Chávez, is one of those victims. His enemies have tried everything: Coup d'État, oil strike, flow of capital, plots…

North Korea's first nuclear test on 9 October was not the only recent shock in northeast Asia. The region had been just as disturbed two weeks earlier by the election of Shinzo Abe as Japan's new prime minister on September 26.

The intensity of the debate in Spain about the Catalan statute of autonomy had been a cause of concern over the past few weeks. Especially since General José Mena Aguado's statement in Seville on 6 January

The debate about Turkey's impending membership of the European Union - planned for 2015 - has been characterised by overblown rhetoric and lack of finesse. Framed in terms of the "clash of civilisations", it testifies to the identity crisis of western societies when faced with Islam.

Türkiye, başka hiçbir ülkenin yapamayacağı şeyi yaparak, Avrupalı olduğunu kanıtlamak için kültürünün birçok temel unsurunu feda etti

People used to talk about "the day when China wakes" as if that nation were a brooding menace threatening the planet. The day has come and it is time to ask what effect China's impressive awakening is likely to have on the world market.

In Europe right now the statistics of male violence against female partners are terrible. For European women aged 16-44 violence in the home is the primary cause of injury and death, more lethal than road accidents and cancer. Between 25% and 50% of women are victims of this violence.

Direniş, hayır demektir. Barbarlığa, küstahlığa ve ekonomik zorbalığa hayır. Dünyanın yeni efendilerine, yani yüksek finans dünyasına, G-8 ülkelerine, Washington mutabakatına (konsensusuna), piyasanın diktatörlüğüne ve denetimsiz serbest ticarete hayır.

Resistance means saying no. No to contempt, arrogance and economic bullying. No to the new masters of the world: high finance, the countries of the G8, the Washington consensus, the dictatorship of the market and unchecked free trade.

Geneva hosted the first World Summit on the Information Society in December, organised at the request of the United Nations by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

The media have been a recourse against abuses of power within the democratic structures of our societies.

New controls, authorised by the USA Patriot Act, are threatening personal privacy and secrecy of correspondence. Authorisation is no longer required for telephone tapping. Inquiring authorities can now access personal information without needing a search warrant.

The US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, was manipulated and his political future is now at stake. He was reported to have resisted White House and Pentagon pressures to distribute the most dubious briefings.

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With the United States now fighting the first major war of the 21st century in Afghanistan, it seems reasonable to ask what are its war aims.