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Habitual Blindness

July 20, 2006
The US is a creature of habit and that means repeating old mistakes, according to author Eric Rauchway. Reaping benefits of industrialization and expansion while devoting few resources to the process, thanks to immigration and foreign capital, the US too often mistakes “habit for virtue.” Rauchway...

Europe Short on Cash as Bond Fears Deepen

November 23, 2011
Unlike politicians, global investors are strict taskmasters. Banks are warning that European governments can no longer take the capital markets for granted in financing public projects, writes Stefan Kaiser for Spiegel Online. His article describes Germany as a safe haven, but shortly after the...

Rise of a Deadly TB Reveals a Global System in Crisis

March 20, 2007
A new form of tuberculosis so resistant to antibiotics that doctors label it as “incurable” has emerged in South Africa – and could also be present in China, Russia and India. “The recipe for spreading the disease is the same throughout the world: inappropriate use of antibiotics,” writes...

Is Globalization Stealing EU Jobs?

March 23, 2006
Increasingly, Europe finds itself struggling to answer the question of how it can simultaneously endorse free trade and preserve traditional industries and the jobs associated with them. In an age of inexpensive Asian imports, outsourcing, and bids for corporate takeovers from foreign entities,...

Problems Will Be Global – And Solutions Will Be, Too

October 13, 2011
A politically integrated world; the United Nations Security Council hosting expanded and regional organizations, like the African Union; and new applications of economic integration – this could be the face of global diplomacy 15 years from now, predicts Anne-Marie Slaughter in an article for...

Voters See Very Different Healthcare Plans From Obama, Clinton & McCain

May 29, 2008
Democrats traditionally have placed greater emphasis on health care as a political issue than Republicans did – and criticize the government as the number of uninsured Americans continues to climb. However, when forced to pay, patients pursue the most affordable programs and voters may well follow...

Will We Just Watch Upcoming U.S. Sanctions Against N. Korea?

February 17, 2003
Will a U.S. plan for sanctions against North Korea further sour the two country’s relationship? Even after South Korean opposition to economic sanctions forced the U.S. to scale back its plan, it is possible that a proposed ban on the trade of weapons and narcotics will inflame North Korea, which...

Cargo Ship Raided by Greece Was Going to Sudanese Capital

June 24, 2003
Greek officials detained a ship carrying several hundred tons of explosives bound for Sudan this weekend. The ship, with a crew of five Ukrainians and two Azerbaijanis, went undetected by marine officials as well as US anti-terrorism intelligence for over six weeks - departing from Albania,...
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