Friday, June 3, 2011

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Bound to Fail

Interconnectedness dooms nations and their arbitrary borders




The Morning After Fukushima Disaster – Part II
The International Atomic Energy Agency must take steps to strengthen nuclear safety worldwide




Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America
Thomas Friedman makes a passionate argument to recognize what is being lost and to establish a new conservation ethic to reverse some dangerous trends



Former Foreign Minister Gareth Evans: Responsibility to Protect
Gareth Evans explains the origin of the Responsibility to Protect concept and hails the UN resolution 1973 as breaking a new ground in the development of global governance

 

The Battle for Pakistan

Pakistan's conflicting policy of fighting Al Qaeda while supporting Islamist militants against India has boomeranged spectacularly. Former intelligence official Bruce Riedel, now senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy in the Brookings Institution, discounts the notion that Pakistan is a failed state. It is a state under siege by the very radicals nurtured by elements of Pakistani military for launching attacks against rival India. Since the death of Osama bin Laden, the Pakistani military has fended off verbal attacks from the US and lethal ones from Al Qaeda....

More News...

Lawsuit Looms Against Germany Over Cucumber Scare
Gregg Benzow, Sarah Harman
Deutsche Welle, 2 June 2011
Wrong guess about source of E. coli deaths triggers blame and protectionism

Yemen Truce Ends With Blasts, Stokes Civil War Worries
Mohamed Sudam
Reuters, 1 June 2011
Seeking international support, opposition vows it can fight extremism

As China's Workers Get a Raise, Companies Fret
Keith Bradsher
The New York Times, 31 May 2011
Asian workers compare wages online and add to global price pressure


Worst Ever Carbon Emissions Leave Climate on the Brink
Fiona Harvey
The Guardian, 31 May 2011
People ignore warnings about a changing climate and refuse to change energy habits

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