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U.S. Is Accused of Trying to Isolate U.N. Agency

June 21, 2004
In advance of a July 15 deadline on funding for international health programs, it appears that US President George W. Bush will continue to withhold monies from the United Nations agency responsible for population control issues. The UN Population Fund has been a target of US conservative...

Pollution Killing River They Said Was Too Big to Poison

June 6, 2006
The Yangtze River cuts a horizontal swath across the middle of China, supporting 400 million people, or one out of every fifteen on earth. Long thought to be immune to acute pollution because of its size, a report by the state-sponsored Xinhua news agency has shown that poisonous water threatens...

G-20 to Push Current Balance Guidelines

November 12, 2010
The G-20 meeting in South Korea closed with assurances that leaders of the world's largest economies would set up a warning system on excessive current-account imbalances. The leaders rejected US proposals that would have placed specific caps on surpluses or deficits. The G-20 also agreed to...

A Self-Defeating War

August 16, 2006
The metaphor “war on terror” is inappropriate, leading to real conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon and causing far more civilian deaths than the 9/11 attacks. A majority in the US now recognizes that the war in Iraq in particular is a huge and costly blunder, but remains stymied, like US...

India to Modernize Vietnam’s Defense Forces

October 29, 2014
India has committed to helping modernize Vietnam’s security forces, after talks between the countries’ prime ministers, Narendra Modi and Nguyen Tan Dung. The agreement gives India access to oil exploration in two blocks of the South China Sea and provides $100 million line of credit to Vietnam for...

Immigration in Italy: Southern Misery

January 15, 2010
Rosarno, Italy has recently experienced a wave of anti-immigrant violence targeted at Africans, many of whom work as crop-pickers. Causes of such violence are multi-faceted. An influx of immigrants, many of whom entered illegally, created tensions with the existing population over employment and...

As Sea Ice Melts, Storm Surges Batter Arctic Coasts

March 7, 2013
As the climate warms and changes, scientists learn more about the planet’s the intricate connections. Rising temperatures not only deliver harsher storms and melt sea ice – the loss of thick sea ice eliminates an obstacle that once slowed Arctic storms, and analysts predict new speed and power...

US Drops Censure of China on Human Rights

April 11, 2003
The US has decided not to offer a resolution condemning human rights violations in China for the first time in ten years. Two weeks earlier the annual State Department report said China’s record remained poor throughout the year, though it suggested a marginal improvement in some areas. One China...
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