In the aftermath of the greatly anticipated US elections, observers worldwide are assessing the consequences of George W. Bush's re-election. In a multi-part series, YaleGlobal checks in with different regions, gauging the reaction to the landmark political event. Rami Khouri, executive editor...
Popular sentiment? Caricatures reflect Middle Eastern mistrust of George W. Bush and US policies.
BEIRUT: George W. Bush's reelection coincides with several other developments that may redraw US policy in the...
Dr. Alan R. Templeton, a population biologist at Washington University in St. Louis, believes that he has discovered primitive Homo sapiens’ initial migration out of Africa to be more than half a million years ago. Previously, the popular “Out of Africa” theory of modern human origin set the...
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A year after the Sept. 11 attacks on the US, anti-globalization activists in the US appear to be following two main tactical approaches. While some groups continue the loud, vociferous protests akin to those seen at Seattle’s WTO meeting, others are pursuing a less confrontational approach aimed...
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11 last year it has proved harder to bring crowds on to the streets to protest.
And while that may mean less media attention, it may also leave a little more space for...
American resentment over political issues has begun to take its toll on goods and services imported from countries such as France and Germany. French’s Mustard's ‘All-American’ publicity campaign aimed to distance its company (British-owned, in fact] from any connection to France – except the...
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How do multinational terrorist organizations maintain communication, plan violent attacks, and find people of similar thinking to grow their ranks? This background report from the International Crisis Group describes how Southeast Asia's fiercest terrorist organization – the Jemaah Islamiyah...
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Developing nations lost the trade battle this weekend in the WTO talks, as richer countries pushed through a proposal that kept most of the 3 billion dollars worth of agricultural subsidies intact. Defending the subsidies, which nations in Africa and Latin America consider akin to "dumping...
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The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) agreement will come under debate in Miami on Thursday. Each of the nations involved is working hard in the days leading up to the negotiations to push its particular vision of what the agreement should look like or whether there even should be a regional...
The US has agreed in principle to a downgrading of the aims of this week's crucial ministerial meeting on the planned Free Trade Area of the Americas, in an attempt to forestall the danger of a possible walk-out by...
Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri has been taking lessons from US President Bush, says this article in the Moscow Times. Megawati is using Bush’s anti-terrorist rhetoric and military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq to justify her bloody invasion of Aceh, a rebel territory she characterizes...
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