By Tom Englehardt America’s heroes? Not so much. Not anymore. Not when they’re dead, anyway. Remember as the invasion of Iraq was about to begin, when the Bush administration decided to seriously enforce a…
Category: Global Issues
If China, through unjustly battered and criticized by US-led Asian coalition, were to be disturbingly pushed to move from where they stand now to a compromised thereby favorable to US position onto the question of…
Issues revolving around the Kyoto Protocol – its implementation and Japan’s opposition to its extention – have caused a deadlock at the Cancun climate change meeting in Mexico. The Kyoto Protocol is the only legally binding treaty in…
China boasts the third-largest population of millionaires in the world, behind the United States and Japan, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) said in a recent report. The United States still leads with more than 4.7…
Alassane Ouattara might be the ideal President for the West African nation – Ivory Coast, following his victory in the runoff poll against incumbent Laurent Gbagbo – as announced by the Independent Electoral Commission in…
China and India are earnestly working towards easing their border tensions. Both countries concluded Tuesday the 14th round of border talks with a joint call to “seek a fair and reasonable solution acceptable to both…
World leaders, Policy makers, Non Governmental Organizations, Research institutions and businesses are meeting in Cancun, Mexico, for the annual United Nations climate change conference. An estimated 10,000 people are expected to attend the conference which…
Taking the opportunity of Yeonpyeong Island conflict, with the strongest global fighting capacity, the U.S. nuclear aircraft carrier George Washington flew into the Yellow Sea on Sunday to participate in the US-ROK joint military drill….
The crisis in the Korean Peninsular are badly affecting markets – not only in Asia, but in other parts of the world. According to China Daily, Seoul’s Kospi index shed 0.15 percent, or 2.96 points,…
After the NATO summit it became obvious that the alliance is trying to show it is still relevant in the world stage. The organization set out a series of strategic goals aimed at stabilizing the…