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Getting settled, illegally
In the Occupied Territories Israel imposes ‘apartheid’ between Arabs and settlers. Frank Shouldice Trader Jack stands in the doorway of his souvenir shop in Manger Square in Bethlehem. Fifty yards from the Church of the Nativity it’s a prime location for selling knick-knacks and miniature religious crafts. Jack is not Bethlehem’s most famous son but […]
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International Tax-Dodging
Global aid to developing countries is less than the $160bn lost annually by them to tax dodging by multinationals. Sorley McCaughey Every year, the world’s poorest countries lose billions of dollars in potential revenue through the tax dodging of unscrupulous multinational companies (MNCs). For example, between 2005 and 2007, Ireland contributed €95million to Mozambique, but […]
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The EU uses ‘soft power” aggressively – sometimes to the disadvantage of poor ‘partner countries’ such as those in Africa, the Carribean and the Pacific area Justin Frewen Drawn up in 1997, only a few years after the end of the Cold War, the European Commission’s report, Agenda 2000, manifests the EU’s intention to play […]
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When Obama came to power last year, he pledged to close the prison at Guantanamo within one year, by January 2010. Not only did he fail to do that, but he has also maintained a second similar prison in Afghanistan, at Bagram Air Base, near Kabul.
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UN’s ambitious upgrading of its role including to state-building
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Latvia, Bulgaria, Romania and others are lacerating their equality budgets too
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Proinsias De Rossa has just returned from leading a European Parliament delegation whose permission to enter Gaza was revoked by Israel