Alternatives International Journal

Articles

• 31 December 2011, by Tamkinat Mirza

  Envisioning a Pandemonian North Korea

  The month of December comes yearly as a combination of recollection and rumination over the events of the year, and speculation regarding developments within the next. 2011’s political events (...)
• 31 December 2011, by Michael Reford

  Europe’s Game of Debt

  The year 2011 was one of vast, multifaceted change for Europe. While the unfolding debt crisis dominated news headlines, European citizens were affected by a wide range of issues. They adapted to (...)
• 31 December 2011

  Putin’s grip questioned in the face of public protest

  The Russian legislative elections of December 4, 2011 saw a significant decrease of public support for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party. Winning the election with a mere 49.3% (...)
• 31 December 2011, by Wesley Ellis

  The Role of Information and Communication Technologies in Shaping the Arab Spring

  2011 has proven to be a volatile year for the Arab world; The death of a single man in the desert sparked regime changes and protests that have authoritarian governments scrambling, and in some (...)
• 31 December 2011, by Tamkinat Mirza

  H5N1: Information Commons vs. Public Safety Concerns

  In the prevalent negotiation between scientific research, moral concerns and government, an all-new controversy has emerged with the findings of two recent studies, with regards to a specific (...)
• 31 December 2011, by The McLeod Group

  CANADA AND MULTILATERALISM: MISSING IN ACTION

  Multilateralism is a word little heard and less understood in today’s political and development discourse in Ottawa. The Conservative government, in practicing a policy of Canada first, uses (...)
• 31 December 2011, by Nancy E. Claridge, Terrance S. Carte

  EFFECT OF ANTI-TERRORISM LAWS ON HUMANITARIAN AID REMAIN A CONCER

  The cost of terrorism has been felt virtually all over the world. In recent years, however, measures adopted to counter terrorism have themselves posed serious challenges to human rights and the (...)
• 31 December 2011, by Marcus Leroy

  ’Value for money’ or ’Results Obsession Disorder’?

  For many decades development aid of western donors has been pretty well shielded from probing questions by the public opinion and politicians. Development aid was, and to some extend still is, (...)
• 31 December 2011, by GWENDOLYN SCHULMAN, ROBERTO NIETO

  Foreign Aid to Mining Firms

  MONTREAL—As excavators, heavy haulers and chemical treatment plants dig made-in-Canada mines around the world, Ottawa has taken new steps to ease growing criticism of Canada’s extractive sector. (...)
• 31 December 2011, by Tamkinat Mirza

  Profile: Adbusters

  On July 13, Vancouver-based activist group AdBusters tweeted a call to Occupy Wall Street, and allegedly sparked the movement that has occupied global attention and public spaces. After the (...)
• 31 December 2011, by FRANCES RUSSELL

  Harper laws for Harper government?

  Is Canada governed by the rule of law — or only by the laws acceptable to the party in power? The difference, obviously, is not mere semantics. It is the difference between democracy and (...)
• 31 December 2011, by MARIA KARI

  Niqab-wearing accuser vs. defendant rights: When Charter freedoms clash

  The tone of the Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday was tense as Justice Morris Fish asked lawyer David Butt to name one lawyer who’d willingly cross-examine a veiled witness. Butt replied "some (...)
• 24 December 2011, by Stefan Christoff

  Leading Canada’s Public Healthcare to the Free-Market Guillotine

  National discussion in Canada on the Conservative government’s new healthcare financial ultimatum, a take-it-or-leave-it-style proposal, largely revolves around myths. First that financing alone (...)
• 18 December 2011, by Refaat Sabbah

  The People Want to Overthrow the Educational System

  “The people want to overthrow the regime” is a statement initiated by the youth in the Tahreer Square in Cairo, becoming a slogan for every single individual rejecting oppression and repression in (...)
• 30 November 2011, by Hiba Zayadin, Lili Eskinazi

  Project Briefings - December 2011

  Each of the nine member organizations of the Alternatives International federation is constantly at work on a variety of projects to improve social, economic and environmental justice in their (...)

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