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UN Inspection in Iraq Was No Sham

March 26, 2004
Despite White House claims that United Nations inspections of pre-war Iraq were a "sham", the post-war evaluation of Iraq's weapons programs - or lack thereof - reveals that international inspections met with significant success. Jessica T. Mathews, president of the Carnegie...

Foreign Policy: China’s Slowing Economy

February 4, 2019
China injected a record $83 billion stimulus package in January, highlighting the world’s second-largest economy’s desire to jumpstart growth in the new year after scoring a 28-year low in its rate of growth for 2018. Even though the Chinese government posted a 6.6 percent growth last year, experts...

NPR: US Announces Withdrawal From UN Human Rights Council

June 20, 2018
The US ambassador to the United Nations and the secretary state announced that the country is withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council. The diplomats insist withdrawal is not a retreat from human rights commitments and called some of the organization’s endeavors “hypocritical” and “self-serving...

Sorry, Pakistan: China Is No Sugar Daddy

July 22, 2011
China may be in no hurry to replace $800 million in suspended US aid to the Pakistani military. After the decision from the US president, Pakistani generals anticipated that China, an ally and the country’s largest defense supplier, would be willing to counter US influence and step in with funding...

Brexit Bill “in Limbo”: BBC

October 23, 2019
Uncertainty over Brexit continues. The British parliament took a step toward Brexit, approving a withdrawal agreement, but declines to hurry, rejecting a three-day timeline as proposed by the prime minister. A few days earlier, parliament forced the government to seek an extension to ensure a deal...

End of Silk Road as FBI Shuts Down Illicit Website

October 7, 2013
Since the days of the Roman Empire, traders traveled a network of routes winding from China and India to the Mediterranean Sea, known as the Silk Road. A young entrepreneur relied on the name in launching an internet site in 2011 that peddled illegal drugs, and other products and services. The US...

NewAfrican: Youth Exodus – Is Africa being Turned Into a Giant Farm?

July 25, 2017
About 34 million people left Africa and became international migrants in 2015, more than 2 percent of the continent’s population and a slightly higher percentage than those migrating from Asia. Kalundi Serumaga, writing for NewAfrican, describes the many young Africans fleeing conflict and poverty...

China’s Missing Million: New Statesman

August 31, 2019
China has been accused of detaining as many as 3 million Uyghurs and other Muslims, most from Xinjiang province, including the highly educated and even members of the Chinese Communist Party, in reeducation camps. China targets the Uyghurs out of insecurity over any separatist movement and...
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