Tribal logic based on national, ethnic or religious bias always leads to inhuman and violent attitudes, in the Middle East and in other conflict. The starting point for any left-wing opinion is to distinguish between the opressors and the eopressed.

According to the dominant view of our times, economic growth is the end and educated, healthy human is the means. Amartya Sen changed the direction within this realation and made growth the means and the healthy human the end. This should be corner stone of a new health care paradigm.

Eight years after their failure in Somalia, the Americans are again prepared to return to the African country. In the early 1990s, they blamed the UN for their lack of success.

Many commentators see the causes of Islam-linked terrorism in cultural and religious conflict. These, however, are only aspectsof nationalism. Within the cultural, religious and nationalclothes, however, deeper social, political and strategic contradictions can be found.