Gunning for glory
Fragmented, bloodthirsty and discredited by other Muslim groups, the Abu Sayyaf are short on ideology and big on rhetoric. More importantly, writes Nyier Abdou, they have nothing to lose

The market yawns
With global markets reeling from reverberations of a US economic slump, the rich are bracing for the worst-case scenario, writes Faiza Rady

Justice demands mercy
In the run-up to the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) scheduled to start later this week in the South African port-city of Durban, Al-Ahram Weekly publishes the full text of the Joint Memorandum by the South African Communist Party, the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African National Civics' Organisation sent on 16 August to the United States Embassy in South Africa

Swept under the rug
African Americans, the Durban conference and US policy are tied together by the silent bonds of a gagged effort to seek reparations for slavery, writes David Du Bois from New York

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