India's Pakistan policy is in disarray following the resignation of Pervez Musharraf as president, to avoid impeachment, after almost nine years of authoritarian rule.

The war between Russia and Georgia has shown the US that its power and influence in the region is limited, but it has also fed the Russian imperialist agenda in the Caucasus, writes Boris Kagarlitsky

Post-Musharraf Pakistan will stumble on, its people trapped between the hammer of a military dictatorship and the anvil of political corruption.

Less than five months after Pakistan installed a freely elected democratic government, it again seems headed for a major crisis. The ruling Pakistan People's Party is considering whether to formally ask President Pervez Musharraf to step down or face impeachment, while Pakistan’s military is under US pressure to escalate its operations against the Taliban, writes Praful Bidwai.

The collapse of WTO talks has brought the problems of the international trade system to the surface. It is now time to overhaul a 'free trade' system that protects corporate globalisation at the expense of poverty eradication and sustainability

Italian High Court resorts to laws enacted under Mussolini to approve work on a second US military base but grassroots opposition is growing and determined to stop the base in Vicenza

When Mexico's ruling National Action Party (PAN) sought to privatise the country's oil industry, they presented this as the only way forward. But a referendum and a huge public outcry have shown a popular mood to defend the country's resources from the energy grab of transnational corporations, writes Manuel Perez-Rocha.

A new hydroelectric dam in Panama could receive funding from the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism, environmental justice and conservation groups have warned.

With US threats, Israeli military exercises and Iranian missile tests, it seems like a carefully choreographed build up to the next Middle East conflagration is under way. But can the US really risk a strike on Iran ? Phyllis Bennis weighs up the evidence

Israel has done what 2000 years of history could not, block the Silk Road from the sea. Phyllis Bennis reports.