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Libya Exposes Mediterranean Fault Lines - III

Joseph Chamie
April 16, 2012

No Thanks, And Keep Your Farm Aid

September 18, 2007
The international humanitarian organization, CARE, rejected $45 million in aid from the US government, suggesting that dumping huge amounts of wheat and other US-grown crops into developing markets only drives local farmers out of business and aggravates poverty. According to Joel Stein, Los...

Migrants Enrich Ever More Anxious Host

September 26, 2006
Economists argue that immigration is good for a country’s overall growth – even as some national leaders concede that controlling immigration is near impossible. But other analysts question the social costs of alienation of many Muslims or resentment from working-class Britons about high...

$3 Million U.S. Computer Theft, Hatched It Seems in Pakistan

January 20, 2003
Through a complicated system of sham online auctions and falsely registered mailboxes, a 25-year old Pakistani man reportedly stole more than $3 million in computer equipment from U.S. companies. He was able to do all this in his own home through the internet, taking full advantage of the...

War for Peace? It Worked in My Country

February 25, 2003
In this opinion article in The New York Times, José Ramos-Horta, East Timor's minister of foreign affairs and cooperation – and a man who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996 – supports the possible use of force in removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. East Timor was only liberated from...

Experts Call for Stronger Guidance to Foreign Investment

August 3, 2004
Foreign capital continues to flow into China, but its distribution remains unequal, with the majority of investment going to China’s eastern areas while a mere trickle makes its way to central and western areas. Consequently, the economy of eastern China is characterized by a higher number of...

His Faith, Our Faith

January 30, 2008
Mahatma Ghandi’s model of non-violent political and social activism offered a new paradigm for world politics, a way for ordinary and oppressed people to join together in convincing powerful nations to change callous ways. Historian Ramachandra Guha questions whether Ghandi’s essential message can...

President Rewards Like-Minded World Leaders With State Visits

May 28, 2003
U.S. President George W. Bush has used his Texas ranch for many world leaders' state visits. Now he has even had Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi sit in on his highly classified morning intelligence briefing on global affairs and terrorist activities and given President Gloria...
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