The Western press has been flooded with the reports ont he Russian mafia, and the corruption scandals of the highest echelons of the Russian bureaucracy. This is not exaggerration. It is strange, however, that the Western press only discovered the scale of Russian corruption after the collapse of the Rouble in 1998. We have reason to believe that the experts had been in the knowledge of the dark side of transition before the financial crisis as well.

The recent months show how the various global issues fall into boxes and receive uneven attention. The cinicism of the summits indicates how the hierarchies of knowledge contribute to the maintanance of the divisions of the world.

The gap between the globalized economy and social justice is widening day by day. Exclusion is a key concept to understand the state of the world. (from Fabian Review).

Opponents of neo-liberal globalization are usually solidaristic with the Palestinian people. Settlement in the Middle-East, however, is not just a matter of solidarity. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is burdened with too much misunderstanding and hostility.

An interview taken from Znet on neo-colonialism and the possibility of a just peace in the post-September 11 world order.