Wikileaks, an online repository of classified documents leaked anonymously by whistleblowers, is drawing criticism after posting close to 400.000 classified documents detailing American military operations in Iraq, and gruesome details of detainee abuse by American-sponsored Iraqi security personnel. Beyond discomfort to the defense establishm ...

“The occupation must end.” - “Anti-Semite!” Five words; a mere two phrases suffice to sum up the dialog-gerheads between a growing chorus of American citizens, European citizens, trade unions, academia, an ever-shifting panoply of online forums, and Israel. Brussels, as the personification of what’s perceived by many Israelis as a mainly European b ...

The government of Bolivia will spend 358 million euros (500 million US dollars) during the four coming years for the exploitation of the country's lithium reserves. So far the decision has not been made public.

Not every employer in Belgium holds labour rights of workers ‘without papers’ in high esteem. When illegal labour immigrants suffer a work related accident or if they are exploited economically, they face a dilemma. If they want to exercise their rights, they run the risk of being deported. Tine Danckaers holds the painful excesses of our country’s ...

Democracy in Europe is under threat of a police force that feels entitled to police thoughts and use violence, while being fully confident that it can act with impunity. Marianne Maeckelbergh, assistant professor at Leiden University went through a horrowing first hand experience.

In a true Copernican shift, our lives will start to veritably revolve around the sun.

In the run-up to the UN Summit about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in New York of 20-22 September, MO* had an exclusive interview with Helen Clark, head of the UN Development Programme (UNDP). ‘If I go on a working visit in development countries, I don’t want to be taken around to all those small projects. I especially like to get to know ...

NGOs, city administrations and publishers worldwide switch to FSC-certified paper. Ordinary consumers can buy copy and printing paper as well as paper towels and even wallpaper bearing the tree logo. But is the paper's green image justified? MO* investigated the case in the eucalyptus plantations of the Brazilian state Bahia.

At the occasion of the Belgian presidency of the European Union, MO* went out in the streets of Brussels to ask Europeans of all shades and nationalities what they think of the Union.

Saturday (26 June), Jeffrey Owens, head of tax at the OECD, said that his organization is involved in talks between governments and the banking sector on the rising issue of deductible bank losses. He did so in Toronto at a press briefing for journalists covering the G20 summit.

Two explosions ripped through a rally that celebrated the new constitution in Nairobi, killing 6 people and wounding 79. Political tension returns to the country. The stampede followed an attack with granades by the supporters of the Constitution. This is one of the most important conflicts since 2007 when 1500 people dead.

“Now 1.5 billion people go to bed hungry, we have never had this figures in the past. The number of people who are dying from Malaria is increasing, so we can say that the world was better without MDGs”. The country Director of Action Aid Nigeria, thinks that it doesn’t mean the MDGs are not good, but they havent seen the kind of commitment that th ...