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Stoking Protectionism

August 20, 2007
Choosing cost-cutting over quality, Chinese firms are finally getting order recalls from some of the biggest US firms. Although China publicly denies quality control problems with exports, domestic markets have faced similar quality issues. However, despite recent high-profile execution of...

An Antiwar Demonstration That Does Not Take to the Streets

February 26, 2003
On February 15th, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in New York City and around the globe to protest the possible war on Iraq. Eleven days later, hundreds of thousands of Americans again protested the Bush Administration’s Iraq policy, this time by flooding the White House and...

Watchdog Attacks US Swoop for Bank Secrets

February 9, 2007
The transatlantic conflict over privacy rights and international security continues as the leading European authority on data protection announced that a US financial information-sharing program abuses privacy rights “on a massive scale,” reports “The Guardian.” For the past six years, the US has...

Anti-Global Warming Push Also Best for the Economy

August 17, 2010
Convincing individuals or businesses to join an orderly, gradual transition to new technologies requires incentives, explains Takamitsu Sawa for the Japan Times. Traditional automobile or appliance industries offer little promise of economic growth for developed nations like Japan and the US;...

Smuggler’s Plot Highlights Fear Over Uranium

January 26, 2007
Officials in Georgia, a former Soviet republic, have arrested people carrying around uranium samples in garbage bags – and involved US officials in their investigations. Defying security measures imposed on such nuclear material, the sellers seek interested buyers. Terrorist groups and even some...

Is Kunduz the Beginning of the End for Afghanistan?

October 5, 2015
Military airstrikes require accurate intelligence reports from the ground. The United States is assisting Afghan forces in preventing infiltration by the Taliban and Islamic State militants. A US airstrike is reported to have struck a small hospital operating in the provincial capital of Kunduz,...

New “Gig” Economy Spells End to Lifetime Careers

August 17, 2015
Even the most talented workers can no longer depend on lifetime post at a company, let alone a steady climb up a corporate ladder. Some employees have responded as entrepreneurs, competing by cutting prices and joining online sites like Uber or Airbnb to provide driving, room or other services –...

Afghan Strikes by Taliban Get Pakistan Help, US Aides Say

March 27, 2009
Trusting an alliance with divided allegiances is difficult, if not impossible. Pakistan is a US ally in the fight to control Afghanistan, but evidence has emerged that Pakistani military intelligence operatives provide support for Taliban attacks on foreign troops. “The support consists of money,...
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