While critics of the economic horrors of globalisation argue, a new and even more brutal form of capitalism is in action. The new vultures are private equity companies, predatory investment funds (...)

International observers and world media paid devout attention to the recent demonstrations and protests in Burma, led by courageous young Buddhist monks. Though they haven’t shifted the regime, they are still marching

The resignation of prime minister Ali Mohamed Gedi has focussed attention on Somalia where the US, alarmed by first the presence and then the influence of Osama bin Laden in the Horn of Africa, has recently engaged in semi-secret operations and has indirectly used Ethiopian troops as proxies