World Affairs
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Interview: Arundhati Roy
The controversial author speaks to newstatesman.com about India and Kashmir plus her view that even if he's elected Barack Obama will govern like just another white man
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Bethlehem's testimony
"Once we got inside, it felt as if we were in prison for doing an awful crime"
Mbeki's troubled legacy
In his early years as president of South Africa Thabo Mbeki strode the globe like a colossus. But is his greatest contribution his resignation?
HRW v Chavez II
Tom Porteous responds to an article by Hugh O'Shaughnessy in which the veteran journalist weighed in to the row about the expulsion from Venezuela of Human Rights Watch
HRW v Chavez
Chávez clearly made a major political blunder in expelling two HRW employees but then their report could have been cobbled together by an inexperienced state dept recruit.
Israel's illegal outpost
The extremist children of the settlements who have turned their backs on what they regard as their parents' caution to live in a twilight world of illegality
A lack of Solidarity
Lech Walesa has angrily dismissed claims he was a double agent - codename 'Bolek' - as "a bunch of crap". Ask him about it and he'll walk out of the interview
The great crash of 2008
The world's financial institutions are gripped by fear, yet policymakers can do nothing. They are ignorant of how banks now work and have to take poacher-turned-gamekeeper Henry Paulson at his word
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Aid in a crisis
Rich Western nations are urged to stick with the UN Millennium development goals inspite of the turbulence in the global economy.
In North America
A sepia-tinged crisis
As the bailout drama lurches on, America is looking back nostalgically to the days of FDR and Eisenhower, when Wall Street still invested in real things
In Global Issues
The pay packet crunch
Robert Reich, labour secretary in Clinton's administration and world-renowned economist, explains why the American economy is grinding to a halt
