Quote of the Week – From Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero: “To change the world’s energy model is the most significant challenge facing humanity in this generation, not only for the impact on climate change but also for its effects on the economic model.” I think he’s got it. By George, he’s got […]
“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.” – Jimmy Carter Those who suffer disproportionately from all violent conflicts are women and children. War not only kills children […]
This week South Africa rejected a visa to Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama for his scheduled visit to a peace conference in Johannesburg. Many of the attendees including several Nobel laureates have withdrawn from the event and the conference has been canceled. South Africa reportedly admitted that it banned the Dalai Lama’s visa due to […]
This documentary is scary. It deals with the issue of water, who owns it and who controls it in different parts of the world. Should water be considered public for everyone to enjoy, like air? Or should it be held in private hands, like oil? It is obvious where Irena Salina, the film’s director, stands: […]
Let’s peel our eyes off of today’s Dow Jones Average for just a few minutes… March has marked a rather curious point in US-Mexican relations, causing many to raise a speculative eyebrow toward our new direction in international trade policy. Is President Obama beginning to draw a dangerously protectionist “line-in-the-sand” in an attempt […]
2. The global financial crisis pushed the G20 to the fore and next week the grouping will take center stage. Many hope the solutions for the economic crisis – developing new financial regulations, coordinating stimulus packages, reforming financial institutions and preventing protectionism, trade wars and “deglobalization” – will be born in London. In many ways, […]
In a rare admission of China’s strategic petroleum reserve capacity, a senior industry executive acknowledged that all four state-owned emergency oil reserve tanks – holding a total 100 million barrels – are filled to the brim. Revealing that China’s current stockpiles have already exceeded the capacity of the first phase of facilities, which the government […]
Yesterday, March 25th, the UN marked the second annual International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The story of the end of the slave trade deserves to be told here at the United Nations. Indeed, the defense of human rights is at the heart of this Organization’s global […]
The New York Times recently featured a report about a new world news website that has a unique business model: With 65 correspondents worldwide – drawn from a surfeit of experienced reporters eager to continue working in their specialties even as potential employers disappear – GlobalPost has begun offering a mix of news and features […]
As expected, Beijing reacted angrily to the United States Defense Department’s latest report on China’s military. Qin Gang, the spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry, called the document a “gross distortion” and “interference” into the country’s internal affairs. “We urge the U.S. side to…drop the Cold War mentality and bias, stop issuing the so-called report on […]
MEXICO CITY — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged to stand "shoulder to shoulder" with Mexican president, Felipe Calderon, in its struggle against illegal drug cartels waging heinously violent campaigns at the U.S. border, and admitted America’s demand for illegal narcotics and the gun supply coming from U.S. arms makers were partly to blame for the problem.
Frontrunner Monday, March 30 at 6:45p.m. at the Paley Center for Media in New York City, 25 West 52 Street The Bread Winner The Asia Society in cooperation with the Foreign Policy Association, at 725 Park Avenue (at 70th St) in New York City, on Monday, April 6 at 6:00p.m. *** Two documentaries depicting the […]
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