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Tom Fawthorp…

Haytullah Gaheez…

No-one who endured 'structural adjustment' during the 'third' world debt crisis from the 1980s onwards can have any difficulty in recognizing the emergency budget just produced by the coalition government in Britain.…

Ayatollah Khomeini’s grandsons supporting the reformers? Demonstrations in the holy city of Qom? This is a new generation of resistance, as Nasrin Alavi shows in her latest survey of the Iranian blogosphere.…

*Nick Harvey* reports on the position of the Hmong – both inside Laos and the bleak refugee camps of Thailand.…

Malalai Joya was one of the first women to be elected to Afghanistan’s parliament…

In the strife-torn valley of India-controlled Kashmir, the decades-long conflict continues to take its toll, especially on its young…

Watching the same old circus act play out at Dubai International Airport passport control is enough to make Azad Essa want to scream.…

Drug prohibition doesn’t work…

‘If the transition to Obama is to become the end of an era as well as the end of an error,’ says food and agriculture activist and author Wayne Roberts, then ‘the legacy of Bill Clinton as well as George Bush will need to be overcome.’…