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Back in February, we were supposed to let out a collective cheer when European governments said they had “frozen” the assets of Hosni Mubarak, the toppled dictator of Egypt. Switzerland, Britain and other European states said that they had heeded calls from Egypt’s new leadership to seize the wealth Mubarak had hidden in their cities, and to return this money to Egyptian taxpayers.

The British “discovered” assets worth £85 million that Mubarak…

Militarism and Arms Trade

The Real Enemy Against Development and Environment

Vijay Mehta

The Nobel Laureate Konrad Lorenz in his 1973 book. Civilised Man’s Eight Deadly Sins alluded the paradoxical relationship between market economics and the threat of ecological catastrophe, when he addressed:

"All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds…