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CUBA: SOCIALIST REALISM
Leonardo Padura Fuentes

IPS COLUMNIST SERVICE, JULY 2008

Forty-six years after it was proclaimed, Cuban socialism seems to have finally revived the idea of the value of money as an economic regulator and social catalyst, writes Leonardo Padura Fuentes, a Cuban author and journalist whose novels have been translated into a dozen languages.

BURMA JUNTA EXPLOITS DISASTER TO ADVANCE ITS INTERESTS
Zin Linn

IPS COLUMNIST SERVICE, JULY 2008

Burma's military junta is exploiting cyclone Nargis to advance its interests and annihilate supporters of democracy, writes Zin Linn, a former political detainee in Burma who now lives in exile and is presently the media and information director of the National Coalition Government of Union of Burma.

COLD WAR I AND II - SOLUTIONS ANYONE?
Johan Galtung

IPS COLUMNIST SERVICE, JULY 2008

Cold War I came and went, and then, in the mid-1990s, Cold War II began, building on the ruins of Cold War I and now gathering strength, writes Johan Galtung, professor of Peace Studies and founder of TRANSCEND, a global peace and development network.

CUBA: HEAT AND SCEPTICISM
Leonardo Padura Fuentes

IPS COLUMNIST SERVICE, JULY 2008

Whether they hope for the materialisation of certain wishes or are convinced of certain disappointment, a day looms in the near future for Cuban: July 26, anniversary of the beginning of the armed struggle of Fidel Castro and his followers in 1953, writes Leonardo Padura Fuentes, a Cuban writer and journalist whose novels have been translated into a dozen languages.

WISDOM OF ANCIENT MAYA FOR MODERN CIVILISATION IN CRISIS
Leonardo Boff

IPS COLUMNIST SERVICE, JULY 2008

Given the unmistakeable signs that Earth cannot survive the intensified exploitation of her resources, the assault on the dignity of her children, and the exclusion and condemnation to starvation of millions of humans, it is essential that we seek inspiration in other civilisations that offer ecological wisdom, writes Leonardo Boff, a Brazilian writer, liberation theologist, and a comissioner and author of the Earth Charter.

U.S. LAGS BEHIND WORLD OPINION IN LINGERING SUPPORT FOR DEATH PENALTY
Mark Sommer

IPS COLUMNIST SERVICE, JULY 2008

It's not easy to explain why, virtually alone among advanced industrial democracies, the United States holds on to the practice of capital punishment. The United Nations General Assembly recently passed a worldwide moratorium on capital punishment and most advanced industrial democracies have outlawed the death penalty. Capital punishment is coming to be seen in much of the world as an ultimate abuse of human rights. In continuing to embrace the practice, the United States finds itself aligned with nations whose human rights records it routinely condemns: China, Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, writes Mark Sommer, host of "A World of Possibilities", an award-winning, internationally syndicated radio programme.

GEORGE W. BUSH DESERVES NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
Roberto Savio

IPS COLUMNIST SERVICE, JULY 2008

The next Nobel Peace Prize should be awarded to George W. Bush, writes Roberto Savio, founder and president emeritus of IPS.

AFRICA: TREES VS. DESERTS
Wangari Maathai

IPS COLUMNIST SERVICE, JULY 2008

Conserving the Congo forest, and indeed all of our forests in Africa, and accelerating forestation efforts is vital to our survival on a continent where the Sahara Desert is expanding to the north and the Kalahari Desert expands to the south-west, writes Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate, Goodwill Ambassador for the Congo Forest, and founder of the Green Belt Movement.

HISTORIC CROSSROADS FOR BOLIVIA AND EVO MORALES
Jose Enrique Pinelo

IPS COLUMNIST SERVICE, JUNE 2008

The social movement of Bolivia remains integrated with President Evo Morales as its symbol, but the government does not seem able to build a new collective identity and a new social order to accommodate it, writes Jose Enrique Pinelo, an activist in Bolivia's social movements since 1970.

BOLIVIA TEETERS BETWEEN DEMOCRATIC LAW AND FRATRICIDAL WAR
Guillermo Bedregal Gutierrez

IPS COLUMNIST SERVICE, JUNE 2008

Bolivia today is split as much by geography as by psychology. Radical groups on both sides are driving the country towards a solution that solves nothing but rather encourages a general conflagration of passions and hatred that eclipses reason and threatens to destroy the hard-won democratic peace, writes Guillermo Bedregal Gutierrez, a former parliamentarian and former foreign minister of Bolivia.

A WAR ON POVERTY OR A WAR ON THE POOR?
Riccardo Petrella

IPS COLUMNIST SERVICE, JUNE 2008

The latest Human Development Report 2007/2008 of the UNDP on climate change forecasts that in less than 20 years, 2.4 billion human beings will live in shanty towns and poor suburbs that lack water and sanitation and suffer high rates of infant mortality, writes Riccardo Petrella, founder of the International Committee for a World Water Contract, and professor emeritus at the Catholic University of Louvain.

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BURMA: UN Missions Draw Derision

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