Alternatives International Journal

Articles

• 30 January 2012, by Kartiga Thiyagarajah

  Obama and the indefinite detention and torture act

  Each year, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of the United States is amended to accommodate the Department of Defense’s budget for that fiscal year. The NDAA for Fiscal Year 2012 (...)
• 30 January 2012, by Ben Zala

  From Davos to Dystopia

  Not long ago the World Economic Forum (WEF) found itself in the sights of the global economic justice movement. At the turn of the last century, before anyone was “occupying” public spaces in (...)
• 30 January 2012, by Liza Ponomarenko

  Internet Censorship and The Case of MegaUpload

  Nations that limit access to the Internet violate a human right which has become essential to life in the 21st century: the freedom of speech and communication through the Internet. A lack of (...)
• 30 January 2012, by Geneviève Lavoie-Mathieu

  Oil exploitation in Nigeria: Five Decades of Environmental and Social Injustice Remain Unaddressed.

  Following President Goodluck Jonathan’s abrupt decision to abolish a consumer fuel subsidy, Nigeria entered a new period of civil unrest. The unrest began as a citizens’ protest but quickly (...)
• 30 January 2012, by Maria Naimark

  The Pakistani State’s Islam: From Instrumental to Uncontrollable

  The last twenty years have seen a dramatic rise in the influence of extremist groups, particularly the Taliban, in Pakistan. Though the state has been linked in some way to Islam from the time of (...)
• 30 January 2012, by John Sinclair , Stephen Brown

  Transparency and Canadian Foreign Aid

  It has always been hard to get timely information on Canada’s foreign aid. Now, thanks to the new “Open Government” initiative, data are easier to access on the Canadian International Development (...)
• 30 January 2012, by ERIKA SHAKER

  The Harper house rules: An intervention

  Stephen: We recognize that no roommate is perfect, and from time to time we have all gotten on each other’s nerves. But you take the cake (and let’s be honest, sharing anything — including cake — (...)
• 30 January 2012, by Gustave Massiah

  Reflections on the Current Social Forums Process

  This paper does not intend to provide an exhaustive analysis of the relationship between the processes of the WSF and the changing global situation, rather it will put forward some reflections on (...)
• 30 January 2012, by Chico Whitaker

  New Perspectives in the WSF Process

  The "future of the WSF"- less of its events and most of the process born from it - is a recurring theme in World Social Forums. From 2004 in all its editions there are at least a workshop to (...)
• 30 January 2012, by Stefan Christoff

  Art and Inspiration Meet on Montreal Streets

  In Montreal, art is a key element of the intensely complex collective identity that stretches across this beautiful island city. Today, as Montreal is being celebrated as a centre for cutting (...)
• 30 January 2012, by Pervez Hoodbhoy

  Iran’s Bomb and Pakistan

  The waters of the Persian Gulf heated up sharply after Iran’s announcement last week that it is creating additional uranium enrichment facilities under a mountain, safe from airstrikes. Iran (...)
• 30 January 2012, by Kamal Lahbib

  WSF Process: Challenges and Opportunities

  In July 2011, Chico Whitaker asked that ever-present question, “And what now, for the World Social Forum?” A few months earlier, Gus Massiah had laid out alterglobalization’s twelve Labours of (...)
• 30 January 2012, by Pervez Hoodbhoy

  The Bomb: Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan

  Once upon a time Iran was Pakistan’s close ally - probably its closest one. In 1947, Iran was the first to recognise the newly independent Pakistan. In the 1965 war with India, Pakistani fighter (...)
• 17 January 2012, by Frédéric Dubois

  Plan Nord Under the Microscope

  Public involvement in diamond venture ends once gems are found Quebec’s first diamond mine is today being hailed as a model operation by the Quebec government. But a deeper look into what this (...)
• 31 December 2011, by Tamkinat Mirza

  Project Briefings

  Initiative pour un autre monde (IPAM) – Paris, France IPAM is supporting the demonstration for the International Day Against AIDS to take place on Thursday, December 1st at 6:30 at la Bastille, (...)

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