In the face of the looming specter of climate change, says Walden Bello the Doha negotiations amount to arguing over the arrangement of deck chairs while the Titanic is sinking

The latest G8 summit took place at a plush mountaintop hotel on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, where 21,000 police were mobilized. em>Walden Bello spoke to Democracy Now about the declarations of the summit and the attempts to keep activists at bay

"We must forcefully delegitimize this dangerous doctrine of humanitarian intervention to prevent its being employed again in the future against candidates for great power intervention like Iran and Venezuela. Like its counterpart concept of "liberal imperialism," there is only one thing to do with the concept of humanitarian intervention: dump it."

Humanitarian intervention: the evolution of a dangerous doctrine.

At the latest WTO ministerial in Hong Kong the big boys' club has been joined by Brazil and India, who played a key role in selling to the developing world a deal that offers them very little.

Developing country prospects at the Hong Kong WTO and beyond.

Blair is an accomplice in the London attacks.

The special responsibility of the UK for the disaster in Iraq.