WHAT IS THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT?In the long term, the earth must shed energy into space at the same rate at which it absorbs energy from the sun. Solar energy arrives in the form of shortwavelength radiation. Some of this radiation is reflected away by the earth's...
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Francafrique goes democratique? | by Khadija Sharife
Several years ago, Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF) published an article called ‘Propping Up Africa’s Dictators’. The article unpacked the basic commonly known building blocks for France’s Françafrique policy, ‘designed to create structural dependence and domination by...
Economic crisis and post-capitalism | Interview by Mat Little
Mat Little interviews the economist Harry Shutt about economic crisis and the left alternative. What marks Harry Shutt out as an economist is not that he predicted the financial crisis that struck in 2007 (two years before he warned of ‘an unavoidable financial...
Occupy Wall Streeters are right about skewed economic rewards in the United States | by Josh Bivens and Lawrence Mishel
The Occupy Wall Street movement has captured much the nation’s attention with a clear message: A U.S. economy driven by the interests of business and the wealthy has generated increasingly unequal economic outcomes where the top 1 percent did exceptionally well but...
Egypt’s sectarian playing field | by Asef Bayat
Many no doubt wondered what had happened to the celebrated revolution of civility, to the Tahrir of sacrifice and solidarity, as they watched the violent collisions between Christians and Muslims in Egypt over the past few weeks. Disturbing certainly, but they were...
AIDC warns: NGP? Do not repeat the tragedy of GEAR as a farce!
Glimpses of clear sunlight in a long winter only indicate that summer is possible, but are not summer itself (not even spring). The Alternative Information Development Centre (AIDC) welcomes that the government’s New Growth Path (NGP) document recognizes the hard...


