Today at the Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromsø, Norway, Greenpeace called for a “moratorium on all industrial activities in areas historically covered by sea ice” in the Arctic. The conference covers the topic of ensuring the “sustainability of Arctic communities in a changing environment,” so it serves as a natural forum for Greenpeace to announce […]
The sitting Awami League government has hanged the 5 individuals convicted of assassinating President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975. The executions came some 14 hours after the Appelate Division of the Supreme Court rejected a review of the Supreme Court verdict. Quite apart for the normatively retrograde administration of capital punishment in Bangladesh, The Daily […]
What was missing in President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address? Any mention of Israel, the Palestinians or the peace process. Even though the administration expended significant energy and political capital on Middle East peace, the administration and Special Envoy George Mitchell have had minimal success. Shocked about the omission? Not entirely. but […]
Lula, o Filho do Brasil, the film by Fabio Barreto that was recently released in Brazil, has been controversial since its release. The biopic about President Lula da Silva has come under fire for various reasons, including the plot and the political message. While President Lula is a popular president with high approval ratings, the […]
As tensions between Hizballah and Israel continue to put Lebanon on edge, the rhetoric coming from Israel is decidedly mixed. Recently, a senior Israeli minister commented that another war with Hizballah is “inevitable” but that he didn’t know when it would happen. On the surface, this may sound unnecessarily inflammatory given the situation, but then […]
Perhaps there is no greater event in history that perpetuated -and some claim grant legitimacy to- the creation of the State of Israel than the Holocaust. While Jews began trickling back into the Holy Land a the end of the 19th century, the slaughter of Jews in Europe propelled thousands of more Jews into the […]
Eugene de Kock, the notorious Apartheid Security Force Member known even among his colleagues as “Prime Evil” for his efficacy as a killer, is pursuing a pardon from South African President Jacob Zuma. Though he was granted amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for every single instance for which he applied, de Kock will […]
It is no secret that Arab governments have long worried about Iran’s growing influence in the region and they are trying to limit Iranian influence among its population. Here are some of the current news stories that highlight this tense relationship between Arab countries and Iran: Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) reported that Arabsat, leading […]
An Israeli-American company, Project Better Place, has plans to create the first electric-car grid, which would allow electric cars to be introduced in large numbers on the road. Project Better Place is a sillicon valley start-up that will operate the recharging grid to support the electric cars.The electric car will dramatically reduce carbon emmissions and […]
Micheal Pettis has a great post up at his always worth-a-read blog China Financial Markets. In “The Myth of the Blithe Consensus,” the Carnegie Endowment fellow and Peking University finance professor reviews the evidence that China’s madcap loan growth of 2009 has returned with a terrible fury in the first weeks of 2010, with dire […]
The 2003 WSF put the movement on map, in large measure because President-Elect Lula chose to emphasize his larger than Brazil leadership making an historic speech at this unique global gathering of social movement activists before boarding a jet to Davos where he called on world leaders from the corporate world and government to combat poverty and make the institutions of global authority more accountable and democratic. Lula was the perfect interlocutor between the rice and bean rebels of the WSF and the champagne soaked elite of Davos.
U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Amb. George Mitchell recently completed his latest round of shuttle diplomacy. As of right now, the trips seem to have accomplished virtually nothing, with Israeli and Palestinian officials still not negotiating. However, a recent State Department statement emphasizes that Palestinian institution building is prioritized by the administration. This […]
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