Enjoying rapid growth, India looks to make use of rich mineral holdings in its eastern states. But the rural poor and tribal people living near these deposits have been deprived of their rights and often oppressed by corrupt officials in cahoots with developers, explains journalist Eric Randolph....
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LONDON: The Maoist insurgency raging through India’s rural heartlands has come to dominate the domestic security agenda in recent months, but this internal...
The negative effects that unbridled capitalism can have on workers in developing countries raises the hackles of many anti-globalization activists. This New York Times article describes the severe diseases that Chinese workers have developed in the dreadful working environment of a jewelry company...
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在全球化的推动下，色情在世界偏僻的角落找到了受众，后果极其严重。在某些地区，例如非洲的一些地方，电力仍属奢侈品，但村民却一直在看来自美国加利福尼亚的色情媒体。这类色情媒体的巨大影响力正给公众健康带来令人发毛的影响。在非洲的许多地方，安全性行为的实施范围有限，增加了艾滋病传播的风险，同时，据说性暴力更加普遍。绝大多数色情内容都来自美国的洛杉矶。这一事实表明，色情媒体的全球化是怎样带来意图之外的后果的。虽然有些人把感染艾滋病归咎于西方色情产品，因为这些产品中往往没有安全性行为，但以上许多地区也没有任何形式的性教育。另外，虽然这些地区也有本地制作的色情产品，但美国货更廉价，发行极为广泛，...
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Police officers informed Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu in February that impending charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust would come his way. Netanyahu addressed the nation the same day, recounting his 50 years of service, including experience with the Special Forces and as...
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巴基斯坦邀请中国在瓜达尔（Gwadar）建设海军基地的报道重新引起了人们对北京在印度洋的战略野心的担忧。在许多中国观察家看来，这个离霍尔木兹海峡（Strait of Hormuz）只有500公里的商业港口的军事化将证实，人们长期以来对北京“珍珠链”战略的担忧不无道理。但是悉尼罗伊国际政策研究所的研究员汤曾德（Ashley S. Townshend)解释说，人们没有多少理由去担心中国在印度洋的战略重点。正如中国指出的，这些港口不过是把中国内陆省份和海上贸易航线联系起来的传统航运设施而已。把商业港口转变为军港不仅需要全面的防御工事，而且需要说服东道主推翻在中国、...
悉尼：随着美国和西方世界陷入债务危机的漩涡，中国军队的崛起似乎比从前更具威胁性了。 中国第一艘航空母舰最近下水，让该地区越发担心这个亚洲迅速崛起的巨人所带来的军事挑战。不过，更仔细地考察将显示，至少对中国军事力量中远程海军设施的 创建，即所谓的“珍珠链”战略，可以不必太担心，因为它更多只是狂热的想象而非实际的军事威胁。
“珍珠链”这个术语是美国博思（Booz-Allen）管理顾问公司2005年的秘密 报告中创造的，后来泛指中国在整个南亚海岸建造海军基地和情报站的计划。该观点的支持者认为...
Terrorist attacks on a stadium, restaurants and concert hall in the heart of Paris, killing at least 127 and wounding more than 300, will test European unity. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility. France is under a state of emergency with borders closed. “The attacks, and the possibility...
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Britain’s prolific novelist Charles Dickens, 1812 to 1870, spent part of his childhood visiting his father in debtor’s prison, an experience that influenced themes of alienation, ambition and inequality in his work. Economist Alan Blinder, writing for the Wall Street Journal, evokes Dickens,...
Season's greetings. And while I'm on the subject, this is a good time for us "haves" to start thinking more about America's "have nots."
The national unemployment rate stands at a horrifying 9.8%. But unemployment is 15.7% among high-school dropouts...
The US has more than 3 million Muslims, about 1 percent of the population. A good relationship with the Muslim community is indispensable for law enforcement, notes James Comey, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation: “It’s at the heart of the FBI’s effectiveness to have good relationships...
Muslim-Americans have repeatedly informed authorities of fellow Muslims they fear might be turning to extremism, law enforcement officials say, contrary to a claim by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump this week.
"They don't...