Yash Tandon

As we approach the final lap of the negotiations leading to the MC10 of the WTO, it is time to take stock of the situation. It is time to consider options before Africa and the developing countries as they confront the Empire in the Green Room.

PARADISE LOST

There is much talk these days – at least in Europe - about TTIP, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. Africans know very little about TTIP.

In the first">http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/95546">first article in this series of six, I argued that the WTO is a War Machine, but one that could be neutralized if Africa was united to challenge the WTO and the

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is holding its tenth Ministerial Conference (MC10) in Nairobi from 15 to 18 December. This is the first of six blogs I intend to write before the conference.

In his first major speech on the financial crisis, Pope Francis called on people to restrain their obsession with materialist consumption and wealth accumulation. He exhorted world leaders to serve the poor and not allow themselves to be deluded by blind market forces.

Few people in Zimbabwe know or care to acknowledge that the country has lost one of its most outstanding persons of global stature. There are not many in Zimbabwe who qualify for this level of exaltation.

Africa’s political leaders are under illusion to believe that foreign direct investments (FDIs) will get them out of their development crisis.

Pambazuka News 673 (April 2014) carried nine articles on ‘sub-imperialist’ BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

Of some people it is true to say that they are better known after they have left this world. What makes them relatively unknown in their life time is a mystery.