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9/11 Conspiracy Theories: The 9/11 Truth Movement in Perspective
At the Hyatt Regency O’Hare near Chicago, a crowd of approximately 400 people has gathered...
9/11 the plane truth
No commanders at NORAD have been demoted, or even reprimanded, for their failure to protect the...
A closer look at propaganda Part 1: The American media
Today, we look at the American media, public relations, Edward Bernays and how the masses are...
A closer look at propaganda Part 2: Utopian dreams
In the last part of the series, I discussed public relations and the story of Edward Bernays. His...
A defiant Iran is a dangerous Iran
There comes a time when threats and rhetoric must be substantiated with tangible action—an...
A genocide that isn't quite over yet, and colonial relics that won't go away.
The officially sanctioned gesture, when reminded of Rwanda, is to shake one's head and say...
A Layman's Guide to Recent Stem Cell Developments
Embryonic stem cells are valuable because they are pluripotent. Pluripotency comes from Latin,...
A Mediterranean Union?
That is the proposal being put forth by the newly elected President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy....
A New Path to Peace: The Damascus Road
Israel's recent siege of Lebanon, which has imposed a crippling humanitarian, economic, and...
A Resurgent Al Qaida?
The mainstream press is abuzz over a new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which concludes...
Abandoning the "African Solution?": The Effectiveness of a UN-AU Peacekeeping Force in Darfur
The region of Darfur in Sudan is in definite turmoil. As most observers are aware of, the...
Addis Ababa: This Grand Potemkin Village
The fact that so many buildings are being so hurriedly erected literally on the side of of the...
Afghanistan: Negotiations with Taliban?
The Guardian's Declan Walsh, Julian Borger, and Sami Yousafzai reported two stories...
Africa's Time Wasters
During a time when renewed focus has been given to issues surrounding governance in the...
African history in ten *seconds*!
We live in a fast-paced, media-driven society. Information must be simple, clear, and colourful,...
Al Jazeera Loved by Sunnis Hated by Sunnis
I noticed a very interesting thing regarding the position of Al Jazeera in Iraq and Lebanon....
Amazonia - The Other Oil War
The Amazon rainforest is still a hotbed of violent disputes, although you wouldn’t know it...
America’s Fundamentalist Mercenaries–Blackwater’s Threat to Domestic Security
Not long ago, I wrote about Blackwater, but more information is coming to light that requires an...
Anger Management
An early chapter of Suketu Mehta’s enthralling book Maximum City evokes the claustrophia...
Anna Nicole Smith, Britney Spears, & the Nancy Grace effect
It’s time to face it, America. Our news media, particularly our 24-hour news channels, have...
Arabic under fire
A child on Hamas TV talked of annihilating the Jews ... or did she? Memri, the "research...
Arctic Ocean Seabed Rights: The Last Great Land Grab?
Recent events suggest that the Arctic Ocean has the potential over coming years to be at the...
Arctic Oil and the Law of the Seize
There is a touch of the 19th century scramble to divide Africa among European colonial powers in...
Banana Republic, Without the Bananas…or the Republic
David Fuller is right. What we are really watching is the decline of the United States of...
Bank Of The South: A potential new challenge to hegemonic global finance and its monetary terrorism
On December 10, 2007 the idea of a new regional financial institution with Venezuela, Brazil,...
Be Very Afraid - Of Fire
September 11, 2001 was the day on which, they say, everything changed. Five years later, G.W....
Beating the Hell Out of Bat Out of Hell, Three Times
Meatloaf has indeed turned the monster loose in Bat Out of Hell III. While I generally hate...
Before We Get Drunk on Ethanol, Let's Make Sure We Get It Right
Not all biofuels are created equal: in fact, depending on how they are produced, biofuels like...
Between the Wrong Thing and ‘The Done Thing’
Corruption goes by many names in Africa -- "kola," "egunje,"...
Biofuels and Genocide
Alexis Ziegler's sweeping, radical critique of biofuels--and the "myth of...
Blood Diamonds
The new movie "Blood Diamond", which is set to premier December 8th is based on the...
Bones and dust: the forgotten tragedy of Darfur
Do you remember Darfur? Probably many of you will recall the name of this region of Sudan. Some...
Brave New World
It’s been amusing and somewhat demoralizing to read the reactions from right-wing and...
Bread, Circuses, and Automobiles in Kazakhstan: The Emergence of a Middle Class?
Kazakhstan’s economic reforms and natural resource wealth has helped to spawn a growing...
Buddhist Economics
"The aim of Western economics is to maximize "standard of living" by the amount of...
Burma and the Democratization of Global Politics
Burma has lately been relegated to the op-ed pages, yet news continues to trickle out of the...
Burma/Myanmar: The China Factor
In the wake of successful "color revolutions," meaning the victories of nonviolent...
Bush Directive for a "Catastrophic Emergency" in America: Building a Justification for Waging War on Iran?
The US media consensus is that "the United States faces its greatest threat of a terrorist...
Cabbie joints
According to Schaller Consulting, a New York taxi industry research firm, New York’s $1.82...
Calm the FARC Down
Ecuador nearly went to war with Colombia after Colombian forces secretly crossed the border in a...
Celebrity Will Not Save the Earth
The dire ecological crises wracking the planet are trivialized by celebrities pontificating about...
China bulks up
The US Department of Defense has released its annual Congress-mandated report on Chinese military...
China’s Food Safety Crisis: A Challenge to Global Health Governance
The April upsurge in the deaths of cats and dogs in the United States alerted authorities to an...
Chinese Gold Farmers in the Game World
In China, there is a new kind of factory that hires young people to play online games like World...
Choosing uncertainty
After 22 years of waiting, Karen refugees living in camps along the Thailand-Burma border have...
Clash Of Civilizations?
I wrote the following originally some years ago in response to Samuel Huntington’s article...
Climate Change and the Threat to Pacific Island Nations: An Interview with Espen Ronneberg
Espen Ronneberg is Climate Change Adviser for the Secretariat of the Pacific Program on the...
Climate change maths
The argument about climate change has been for so long about whether it’s actually...
Climate, Conscience, and Atmospheric Carbon
In my work, I have to fly. Both the NGO that I run, and the consultancy that I own, regularly...
Cold War II
These are exciting days in Washington, as the government directs its energies to the demanding...
Collective Punishment in Gaza
This fascinating little item in the BBC allows me to add Israel to the list of countries whose...
Complex answers to simple questions: conservation biology
If someone found a way to make chiggers go extinct, would I really mind that much? Do I really...
Congo…The Forgotten War
OK, the Democratic Republic of Congo. Formerly known as Zaire or the Belgian Congo,...
Counting the poor
Any serious conversation about the nature and causes of poverty in Africa, and its reduction,...
Coup in Pakistan/Democracy in Venezuela
So, Gen. Musharraf (I refuse to call him President.) has called a "state of emergency,"...
Critical Distinctions
Back in late July (was it the heat?), the UK Government made public its revised system of threat...
Current TV
In our double-speed age, when the most staid, pinstriped executive salivates over the latest...
Cyberwar
There should be no doubt that the smarter and better-funded militaries of the world are planning...
Darfur: Genocide by other means
Darfur is well used to the lack of attention. The region was almost unheard of outside Sudan...
DDT, Malaria and Africa
This has been a heated controversy for some time, and it is not cooling down anytime soon. As...
Death of the Bees: GMO Crops and the Decline of Bee Colonies in North America
This essay will discuss the arguments and seriousness that affects the massive deaths and the...
Democracy 2.0
In a faraway domain, a fragile democracy is fighting for survival. Everyday we watch on our...
Democracy May Not Work in a Digitally Connected World
Democracy has not been an easy idea in history, even in its beginnings with the Greek...
Democrats Construct Another Vietnam
Not long ago it was imperative that the United States - both citizens and politicians alike - not...
Deploying the F-Bomb: The Illegitimate Farrakhan Question
It’s perhaps fitting that the media finally relegated Barack Obama to the confines of being...
Don't Cure Autism Now!
The talk of autism as if it were a disease is in itself problematic; diseases are bad, after all,...
Dove Campaign for Real Beauty Case Study
The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty (CFRB) began in England in 2004 when Dove’s sales...
Earth Jazz
Over the past few centuries, our perception of nature has become narrowly visual. As a result...
East Timor: the Crisis Beyond the Coup Attempt
The failed military coup attempt in Dili led by Alfredo Reinado led to his own death, the...
eDump, a Documentary about Electronic Waste Recycling in China
Michael Zhao has developed a 20-minute video documentary as well as a multimedia package...
Empire in Her Eyes
The turn is almost complete. We have arrived at Empire and are legally dismantling the last...
Ethiopia and the Global Antiterrorism Campaign
The Bush Administration’s recent announcement that it plans to create an Africa Command...
Evolving Robotspeak
Living things communicate all the time. They bark, they glow, they make a stink, they thwack the...
Exiled for life
Escaping from China has never been without risk for scores of Tibetans who had little option but...
Feminism in the Middle East
A wave of feminism is stirring in the Middle East. But it's not coming from where you might...
Fidel Castro: A Soldier of Ideas
During his not-quite farewell speech, since he claims he is going to remain a part of...
Film and the Christianization of Nigeria
Let’s start this column with a quiz question. Which film center produced more commercial...
Fish farms and aquaculture are not inherently bad
Fish farms or aquaculture are not inherently bad. They are just not as evolved as agriculture...
Fishy Farms: The Problems with Open Ocean Aquaculture
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of...
Five Minutes to Midnight
The Doomsday Clock was moved forward two minutes earlier this week. According to the...
Flowers For Revolutions Or Funerals?
Were the so-called “flower revolutions” in post-Soviet states successes or failures,...
Food and energy: a clash of giants
Two critical markets are pursuing a stressed planet’s renewable resources, presenting...
For Iraq, a Lesson from Africa
No one's looking, because no one's inclined to look in such an unlikely place. But it...
Forget America, is Journalism Ready for a Black President?
"Is America Ready for a Black President?" It's a question that many media outlets...
From sweet on the table to fuel in the tank: the millenary history of Sugar Cane
Sugar Cane is back in the news. With oil prices resembling those of the early 1980s, it seems...
Funeral Protests and Free Speech
A jury in Maryland yesterday punished the Westboro Baptist Church to the tune of $11 million for...
Genetic Engineering and Morality: From "Blade Runner" and "Brave New World" to Our World
Call me a geek, but one of the great highlights of my 2007 was the night in December when I...
Genetically Modified Crops
As the world population continues to grow, the task of feeding these populations too often fails....
Global Issues in Nutrition Communication: Focus on Food Labeling
Why are educated people - in even the most industrialized countries of the world - so ignorant...
Global Warming as White Man’s Burden
Climate scientist V. Balaji reminds us that before Davos, there was Bandung. While the captains...
Guana Cay: Rise Up Sweet Island
Not much happens on Great Guana Cay, and nothing ever will. Well, at least that's what you...
How Close Are China and Russia?
Earlier tonight [6 November 2007] the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao concluded his official state...
How Did Western Civilization Get A Monopoly On "Moral Conscience" When It Has No Morality?
"The first use of nuclear weapons must remain in the quiver of escalation as the ultimate...
How Do You Stop the Poppies?
I suppose that’s the $200 billion question, isn’t it. How does one stop the illegal...
How drugs brought the Taliban back to life
The Taliban revival is directly, intimately related to the crop eradication programme. It could...
How many states?
Any approach that aims to resolve the problems in Palestine through partition starts out from the...
How Pakistan wins in Central Asia
Pakistan is quietly setting itself up to do very well out of Central Asia, slightly underneath...
How to Conserve Water Efficiently
The sharp rise in world population and income during the past five decades has stimulated greatly...
How Will Uzbekistan Handle Succession?: Reverberations from Turkmenbashi’s Death
When Turkmenbashi passed away under a cloud of secrecy in Ashghabad in late December, one can...
Hubble Maps the Cosmic Web of 'Clumpy' Dark Matter in 3-D
An international team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has created the...
Implicit (Unconscious) Race Bias and the 2008 Presidential Election: Does Obama Stand a Chance?
Obama has a serious uphill battle on his hand, which I assume most people know. But I don’t...
In Exile, Shah Paung Writes of Burma Struggle
In a Thai refugee camp Shah Paung found that writing stories was one way to resist the Myanmar...
India: Poverty Retreats with Globalization’s Advance
As the driving force of the world economy since the mid-1970s, globalization has become a...
India’s Foreign Policy : Emerging Trends in the New Century
There are at least two methodologies to approach the broad theme of this subject. One would be...
Inside Chinese State TV
Earlier this year I was about to sit down for a live TV interview for the public affairs program...
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – Summary for Policymakers
If you want to get a leg up on most policymakers, a good way is to actually read the...
International Conflict Mapping: The Waziristan Conflict
There are three main schools of thought regarding international conflict: realist, liberal, and...
Iraq: Winners Know When to Quit, Losers Don't
Contrary to what you've probably heard your whole life, winners do quit, and they know when...
Irony in the Oil Law
US Congress has been pushing the Iraqi government to get the Oil Law passed post haste and the...
Is OPEC relevant?
Are OPEC's recent decisions responsible for the current price of oil? I'm not persuaded...
Is Religion a Threat to Democracy?
It's a presidential campaign like no other. The candidates have been falling all over each...
Is The CIA Trying to Kill Hugo Chávez?
"I want to kill that son of a bitch," said the Capitan of the Venezuelan National...
Is the world ready for cyborg athletes?
Look out professional athletes, here come the cyborgs—and they’re aiming for the...
Israeli Oppression in Hebron - A Case History of Separation, Forced Displacement and Terror
B'Tselem is the independent Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied...
It Isn’t About Oil
We [Americans] don’t particularly need Iraqi oil. For starters, we have access to Saudi...
It's Rough Out There In the Iranian Blogosphere
You can’t lose your temper in the Iranian blogosphere - and whatever you do, you...
iWar: pirates, states and the internet
On 27 April 2007 a blizzard of distributed "denial-of-service" attacks hit important...
Jakarta Drowning
The Indonesian capital Jakarta has been inundated by rains and flooding that have so far killed...
Jared Diamond and the Consumption Factor
To make a long story short, the US and other First World countries account for about one billion...
JKK, The World Is Watching
Of the presidential campaign billboards I saw in Kinshasa, one still stands out in my mind. It...
Kárahnjúkar, all that glitters is not aluminum
On march 5th, 2003, Iceland's Parliament approved the construction of the world's...
Killing Cars
Yesterday, General Motors announced the launch of a new H3 Hummer truck in 2009. The vehicle,...
Kings of Africa
There are still several hundred monarchs on this continent. While some amongst them have been...
Kissinger then and now
Today’s media stars have no time for sustained analysis—they want sound bites that...
Kosovo as Precedent and Pretext: New Debates and Old Lessons
Even though Kosovo's leaders have now declared independence, the present period of intense...
Kurdistan: Water Resources
A new Turkish parliament was sworn in this past weekend with twenty "pro-Kurdish"...
La Gioconda Perduta: Turkey, Kurdistan, and the PKK
Aynur was born in 1982 in Siirt, capital of the like-named province in southeast Turkey. Siirt is...
Lebanon: The risks of intervention
The conflict between Israel and Hizbollah has garnered enough respect for the latter that some...
Look, kids, it's a civil war!
So... NBC has finally decided to call the sectarian violence in Iraq a civil war. Which is sort...
Love for Sale
As someone who managed to learn depressively little about international geography during my...
Maps reveal global health inequities
A new set of maps basing the relative size of countries on socio-economic data rather than land...
Microfinance launches One Laptop Per Child project
In November of 2005 UN Secretary General Kofi Annan welcomed a cheap and robust prototype laptop...
Models of Development - Part One
As the twenty first century develops, it is not Europe nor the United States which are expected...
Models of Development - Part Two
In order to understand which approaches a state may use in furthering, through development, the...
Modern Man: homo destructus vs. homo pacificus
I envision the history of this world being written from some time in the future. The period of...
Monsanto buys ‘Terminator’
The United States Government has been financing research on a genetic engineering technology...
Muslims and the West
Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world. There are over 1.25 billion adherents - one...
Muslims, El Jueves, Sex Cartoons And Western Civilisation
Enter Judge José María Vázquez Honrubia of the National Spanish Court who...
Mystical Dimensions of Islam- Annemarie Schimmel
Some call Annemarie Schimmel's book, Mystical Dimensions of Islam, obsolete, but I disagree....
Myths About Nuclear Energy
First shift at Milwaukee’s Falk Corp. began on the morning of December 6, 2006 just like it...
Nationalism & Religion: The Case of Hamas
The horrific suicide bombing of January 14, 2004 in which twenty-two year old Reem al-Reyashi, a...
Neuromancer Cinema
It’s tales from Neuromancer Cinema, kiddies! So, rumors have been popping around the...
New Politics in Old Bolivia: Public Opinion and Evo Morales
Nearly two years into the presidency of Evo Morales, government officials and leftist social...
Not Enough Uranium for Nuclear Expansion?
This is the conclusion of Thomas Heff, a research affiliate at Massachusetts Institute of...
Nuclear Fusion and Climate Change
Last week, while most Americans were preparing for Thanksgiving, many of the world's leading...
Nuclear Options
On the one hand, nuclear fission is an extremely powerful source of energy. On the other hand,...
Nuclear Power Makes Individualists See Green
Let me start with just a little bit of background. The “cultural cognition of risk”...
Nutritional numerology
The latest study in the news, said to “confirm the health benefits of whole grains,”...
Obama Assassination Would Cause Riots Across U.S.
In wake of the recent media buzz about the potential for the man who would become America’s...
Of Linus and Nuclear Weapons
In the venerable Peanuts comic strip, the character of Linus perpetually totes around a...
Oil Peak or Peak Oil?
The tensions between Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan contributed to jitteriness in the oil markets...
On Science Vs. Religion: An African-Centered View Explodes Western Myths
There is an unfortunate misconception to the effect that religion in general -- traditional...
On the Eve of a Free Trade Area of the Pacific – Occupation, neo-colonialism and enclosure
New Zealand Minister for Trade Phil Goff has announced that talks will begin in August to begin...
Operation Mullah Stomp: The military option on Iran
Now that the President has unveiled his strategy on Iraq, it appears that even he, four years...
Orwell Has a Field Day
A spokesman for the Senate Armed Services chairman says draft legislation is headed to Capitol...
Pakistan in Turmoil: Benazir and Beyond
The images are haunting…. The loaded gun, the fiery bomb blast, and stunned humanity in...
Pakistan's Power Puzzle
In Pakistan there is a massive outburst of rage against Musharraf and everything associated with...
Pakistan's Problems in Waziristan and Beyond
The results of the Waziristan Accord, Pakistan's 'truce' with the Taliban and...
Pakistan: Chronology of a Political Meltdown
As I wrote yesterday, the emergency declared by Gen. Musharraf is deeply disturbing, but not...
Palestinian Entrepreneurship: Dictatorship Of The Bourgeoisie, Please
“Bravo” strikes the eye as an unremarkable supermarket, which is precisely what makes...
Paraguay: A Laboratory for Latin America's New Militarism
Two soldiers in Paraguay stand in front of a camera. One of them holds an automatic weapon. John...
Peace and Entrepreneurship
The media coverage of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize last week drew attention to the...
Peace in Northern Uganda: Why Naivasha success story could not be repeated in Juba?
In 1986 carnage visited Acholiland when revolutionaries from Southern Uganda led by president...
Peak Oil: A Thing of the Past?
No, I don't mean that the idea the world's oil production has peaked and is now...
Pet Foods for Thoughts
More than a month since the major recall of dog and cat food in North America began, many key...
Pinochet is not Being Fully Discredited
With the ex-dictator of Chile, Augusto Pinochet, dying at the age of 91 on Sunday without ever...
Pipeline Politics: India and Myanmar
Recent developments in the gas field projects of Myanmar have served to highlight the intense...
Pluto-nium
The revolt has begun. The metaphorical gates of the IAU are being stormed by angry astronomers,...
Politics of Reporting on IAEA Reports
It is always interesting to read the actual text of reports issued by the International Atomic...
PoMo Primer: An introduction to Postmodernism
In a probing article on the goings on in the fin de siecle days of the Bush White House,...
Pope on the Ropes
He didn’t mean it. He had no idea it would be offensive. He has nothing but respect...
Prachanda and the corporate convergence in Kathmandu
After a decade of conflict and more than 13,000 deaths, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, better known as...
Putin’s Central Asian Accords Hit Iran, Not Just the West
By reaching accords on oil and gas exports with Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, Russian President...
Realism on Iraq
The death of foreign policy realism is one of the most painful and costly failures of our...
Recent History of Lebanon
During the coming days, I will post my interpretation of the recent history in Lebanon. It is a...
Regional integration as a strategy for African development
One of the best observations I’ve ever heard about African economics came from Dr. Nancy...
Rising Food Prices and What That Means
Malthus and the many neo-Malthusians of modern times assume that the threat from world...
Rugby, Race, and Nationalism (With a Twist)
There has been a perplexing story unwinding in South Africa over the course of the last few...
Rwanda and the War on Terrorism
A common flaw in U.S. foreign policy is the politicization of foreign assistance. Whether...
Rwanda to Darfur, an unbroken discord
Twelve years ago, Rwanda, sub-Saharan Africa, exploded in an orgy of racial violence, intertribal...
S.O.S in Eastern Congo: Magic Sticks, Corruption and Gorilla Warfare
Two urgent messages arrived from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in late August...
Saudi Arabia and Wahhabism: a toxic combination
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is in the news for yet another of its barbaric practices. This time...
Saudi Arabia’s Media Empire: keeping the masses at home
Since the 1990-1 Gulf crisis when the United States used Saudi Arabia as a launchpad for a...
Saying "No" to Bush & Abstinence Education
The morality fetishists in the Bush administration are probably seething. Fourteen states have...
Science and casualty figures in Iraq: lancing the Lancet boil
The famous 2006 Lancet study indicating there had been more than ten times the previous estimates...
Should Nuclear Energy be Revitalized?
Electricity flows with the flick of a switch, powering devices that facilitate our...
Slick Hillary: “I Did Not Have Sex With That War”
Recently, I mistakenly received the Winter ’08 edition of Hooah!, the U.S. Army National...
Soil - Our Financial Institution
SOIL - the substance you walk on, build on, and live from. It is what provides your food,...
Somalia: A Nation in Turmoil
Somalia, located in the Horn of Africa in the eastern region of the African continent, has been...
Somalia: Possibly more complex than Nigeria
Remember Somalia? It’s the third front on the endless war on terror, the one where US...
Somalia: The World's forgotten catastrophe
According to the UN, the worst catastrophe in Africa is not taking place in Kenya, or even...
Spoiling for a Fight
The Ministry of Defense have said that the 15 British sailors and Royal Marines that were seized...
Suddenly Africa Matters?
Barely a decade ago the Pentagon dismissed Africa in a one-liner: “Ultimately we see very...
Supporting Genocide In West Papua
West Papua has been under military occupation since 1963, when the UN handed control over the...
Taking aim at Rachel Carson
I've been doing a little research into how the Rachel-killed-millions hoax was spread. In...
That Old School Propaganda
I love history. I study it not just because it is boring and I am a maladjusted loser, er, I mean...
The American Suburb: The Next Slum?
The subprime crisis is just the tip of the iceberg. Fundamental changes in American life may turn...
The Aral Sea Disaster, part 1: Count the cost
Micklin (2000) writes that the Aral Sea is a surface-fed rather than groundwater-fed lake: it...
The Aubergine’s Role in Ending Rural Poverty
The more time I spend in Africa the more I realise that I was totally wrong about the best way...
The Bottled Water Lie
The corporations that sell bottled water are depleting natural resources, jacking up prices, and...
The Breaking of the Gaza Wall. Wise, Justified Political Violence.
The breaking of the Gaza-Egypt wall is clearly a good thing, and a rare example of the moral --...
The Changing Legitimacy of the State
The 20th Century saw many changes in the way that democracy, rights, civil society, development...
The Chilean "Justice" System Is Not Net Savvy
Journalist Alejandra Matus fled her native Chile for the United States in 1999, after a judge...
The Chinese Netizens and Internet censorship
Recently, China’s president Hu JinTao has made a remark regarding the growing threat of the...
The Corporate Climate Coup
Don't breathe. There's a total war on against CO2 emissions, and you are releasing CO2...
The Criminalization of the State: "Independent Kosovo", a Territory under US-NATO Military Rule
While the European Union and the US, have acknowledged that they would be "opposed" to...
The Demise of the Professional Photojournalist
The rise of the citizen journalist is not a new phenomenon. People have been witnessing and...
The Destruction of the World Trade Center: Why the Official Account Cannot Be True
In The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 (2004), I...
The Electron Economy: the Energy Future is nearer than you think…
While biofuels are the flavor du jour from official circles, not as much has been heard lately...
The Ethnic Dimension of Kenya's Conflict
With the turmoil over Kenya’s election having claimed over 330 lives by some estimates, and...
The Evolution of Evil
Perhaps a global political apocalypse has already arrived. Activists and dissidents should...
The Exile in Maryland – Bolivia's Deposed President Three Years Later
I have only seen Bolivia's deposed ex-President, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, in person...
The Face at the Window: A Glimpse Into North Korea
Most of the recent news coverage of North Korea has focused on the stalled Six-Party Talks aimed...
The free market vs. global health
When the global economy settled into the Chicago School of Economics’ visible hands in the...
The Gore Effect
Some find it strange that Al Gore, star of “An Inconvenient Truth” and advocate of...
The Gospel of Consumerism
In the United States, the day after Thanksgiving is often called Black Friday, both because of...
The Kids of Northern Uganda
Underlying all the natural beauty of Uganda is a tragic reality, especially for kids who grow up...
The Kurdistan Problem
America is currently occupying a land [present day Iraq] with 5,000 years of recorded history....
The Militarization of the World's Urban Peripheries
Urban peripheries have become war zones where states attempt to maintain order based on the...
The Most Wanted List: International Terrorism
On February 13, Imad Moughniyeh, a senior commander of Hizbollah, was assassinated in Damascus....
The Muslim Brotherhood – a force not to be underestimated
The Muslim Brotherhood is a much mis-understood and under-estimated force in today’s...
The Myth Of Pakistan & Musharraf’s Liberalism
There is much interest in Pakistan’s political and cultural dynamic these days. Hardly a...
The Oily Truth About China’s Occupation of Tibet
I am a huge sinophile. I have east asian specialties in both philosophy and history. That said,...
The Pickton Murder Trial
Orato.com, a citizen journalism network, commissioned two former sex trader workers (Pauline...
The price of coal
China’s behemoth economy may have been built on it, but the people who live in the...
The Problem with Privatizing War
As the principal private actors in warfare, today's PMFs [Private Military Firms] have...
The Rape of Sabrine...
As I write this [1 February 2007], Oprah is on Channel 4 (one of the MBC channels we get on...
The RFID Controversy: Corporations Want to Imbed Traceable Microchips to Everything We Buy, Wear, Drive and Read
A future full of traceable microchips is much closer than many would like to think. Already...
The Sandline crisis: 10 years on
For most of its recent history, Bougainville was a Solomon province of Papua New Guinea (PNG)...
The Sea of Japan: Maybe it really is a Sea of Peace
Koreans are visiting Japan in record numbers, and many of them are coming to Kyushu. The flight...
The Slippery Slope of Blame in Gaza
The blame game surrounding Gaza’s current political and social crisis is too unilateral and...
The Story of Gaza
Last year I visited Southern Israel after the Lebanon war winded down. The Israelis were then...
The Story of Stuff
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects...
The struggle against water privatisation in Nepal
The mountainous terrains of Nepal are sandwiched between its two mega-neighbours China and India....
The Struggle to Industrialize Venezuela
Latin America has been told for decades that free trade is the path to modernization....
The Three Gorges: a wiser approach
China’s central government recently warned of a potential ecological catastrophe caused by...
The Tragedy of America’s Relationship with Iran
Before we make the critical error of attacking the sovereign nation of Iran, we should review the...
The Turkish-Iranian Rivalry
While the global news media has given extensive coverage to the geopolitics of energy resources...
The Unbearable Emptiness of Democracy
The past few months of political intrigue around the new Serbian government are one of the best...
The use of political rhetoric has played an important role in the recent nuclear deal with North Korea
In the early years of his presidency, Bush's rhetoric was often coarse, and sometimes...
The West Vs Mugabe: If the truth be told
Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe has been in the news a lot these days. In between all the wars,...
The White Man's Burden
Not surprisingly, someone at the Guardian doesn't like Blood Diamond, the film I spoke of...
Thinking About the Unfortunately Thinkable: Iran--and Bush
If Iran's ruling regime were thinking straight, they would not want to have nuclear weapons....
Third Party Candidates and the Public Consciousness
Oftentimes, the positions of America’s politicians are described on a spectrum that ranges...
Three Years Later, Conflicts in Tsunami Areas Have Taken Very Different Directions
The devastation of the 2004 tsunami came on the heels of two separate, decades-long conflicts...
Toward a ‘Multipolar World’: Using Oil Diplomacy to Sever Venezuela’s Dependence
If economic diversification and international solidarity are the twin goals of...
Towards A Global Civil Society? - Challenges
Many challenges and obstacles present themselves to the formation of an effective global civil...
Trouble in the village?
Last time - what seems like months ago, apologies for the delay - we looked at Jeffrey...
Turkey, Iraq, PKK, Iran, Cheney and Twelve Captains
While Ankara's estimate of thirty thousand Turks killed in the past twenty or so years by...
Turkey: It Is About Freedom, Not Scarves
Why in the world does a state care how students dress in its universities? Shouldn't the...
U.S. Foreign Policy and the Relationship with Turkey
The United States policy of containment during the Cold War era created a variety of strategic...
Ugly Bettys
Shockingly unbecoming pictures of Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi at Time.Com raise the question...
UN Millennium Project: Plans to end poverty
The UN Millennium Project, a sort of specially-convened think tank put together by Kofi Annan to...
Venezuela's Social Democracy Hits A Speed Bump
Hugo Chavez addressed upwards of a half million supporters on the final day of campaigning for...
Villages of dreams?
Last time, our whirlwind tour of Professor Jeffrey Sachs’ The End of Poverty took us to...
Voices for Global Democracy
Those who see Globalisation as a potential force for good, have been for some time turning their...
Watching the Watchers: America and Human Rights
How many Americans, even, or, perhaps, especially the most ardent supporters of Mister Bush and...
Water and Development
Much of the world lives without access to clean water. Privatization of water resources, promoted...
We Need Another Malaise
The United States needs another malaise, much like the malaise that occurred during the four...
Weaponizing space
Amid the detritus of the twenty-four hour news cycle, every now and then an event occurs that...
What is General Musharraf’s strategy?
In the aftermath of the Pakistani military’s pre-dawn helicopter strike on Monday [Oct. 30,...
Whatever Happened to Palestine?
A group of anti-war leaders held a conference call at the end of August under the sponsorship of...
Who Owns the Moon and Its Valuable Resources?
Global warming may be the first threat to humanity that comes to mind when considering the...
Who's Really Paying the High Prices for Your Pharmaceuticals?
Hazardous imports have been the top story on the evening news for weeks now. But the poor quality...
Why can’t we all just get along?
The media world is undergoing profound change. We know the great catalyst for these changes has...
Why China Says "No" to a U.S.-Iran Confrontation
Attempts by the Bush administration to round up UN Security Council votes to further sanction...
Why China will not allow democracy in Myanmar
For decades, China has been the major factor in the Burmese tragedy for various reasons. First...
Why I Strongly Support Israel
The dictionary definition of ‘to assume’ is defined as ‘to take for granted or...
Why Iran NEEDS nuclear energy, not weapons.
Iran holds the second largest crude oil reserve in the world after Saudi Arabia. It has the...
Will Bush cancel the 2008 election?
It is time to think about the "unthinkable." The Bush Administration has both the...
World Health Organisation backs use of DDT against malaria
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has endorsed the use of banned insecticide DDT in a new...
Yes, save Darfur! But what about Zimbabwe
President Robert Mugabe initiated the belated nationalization of his country’s agrarian...
Zimbabwean Cameraman Murdered in Crackdown on the Media
Edward Chikomba, a former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation cameraman, was found dead in...
Zoe's Ark group tried for kidnapping children in Chad
Ten French and Spanish citizens appeared in court today in Chad charged for their role in a mass...
