November 2013 - Page 5 of 5

In Haiti, Cholera Claims New Victims Daily

Thalif Deen and Patrick Saint-Pre November 6, 2013 Thalif Deen and Patrick Saint-Pre

(IPS) – Some 2,400 kilometres from New York City, where victims of Haiti’s cholera epidemic are suing the United Nations in a U.S. federal court, the disease continues to burn through the populace with no end in sight.

In a single week between Oct. 19 and Oct. 26, the Pan-American Health Organisation reported 1,512 new cases and 31 deaths. New cases are reported in all 10 departments.

At the Cholera Treatment Centre run by Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders in Delmas 33, a commune in Port-au-Prince Arrondissement, nurse Viola Augustine says the clinic is so packed it cannot accept new patients. read more

The Decline of U.S. Hegemony and the Next Global Power Struggle

Immanuel Wallerstein November 6, 2013 Immanuel Wallerstein

What happens when the much lessened power of the erstwhile hegemonic power seems clear to other countries is that relative order in the world-system is replaced by a chaotic struggle among multiple poles of power, none of which can control the situation.

Rebranding New York City: How the 1% Created a Tale of Two Cities

John Tarleton November 5, 2013 John Tarleton

In this interview, Miriam Greenberg, author of Branding New York: How a City in Crisis was Sold to the World, makes sense of the origins of New York’s vast inequalities and what the prospects are for changing them.

GMO Wars: The Global Battlefield

Walden Bello November 4, 2013 Walden Bello

The case against GMOs has strengthened steadily over the last few years, even as the industry has expanded all over the world.

Life During Wartime: Mass Surveillance, Intelligence, and Repression in the United States

Kristian Williams November 1, 2013 Kristian Williams

Confronted with recent revelations concerning the shape and scope of NSA surveillance, liberal commentators have frequently expressed dismay and forwarded objections that the monitoring of ordinary citizens is a wasteful and dangerous distraction from the hunt for real terrorists. As this selection from the new collection Life During Wartime makes clear, such protestations really miss the point, as they misunderstand both the strategy of wholesale surveillance and the ends it serves.