Dear Friends, The Korean civil organizations held a press conference to urge the immediate stop of the construction of naval base in Jeju on 8th June. 417 eminent persons in Korea endorsed the statement calling…
Category: Global Issues
The chart at[right] (amended for 2010) shows the increase in US Military Spending from 1998 to 2010. Current Annual US Military Expenditures constitute 55% to 60% of the world total – meaning the US spends…
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recently threw out the notion of “learning from the arms race between the Soviet Union and the U.S.” It seems like idle talk, but in reality it is a…
The Western media continually criticizes China’s role in Latin America as being “neocolonial” and claims it has an “insatiable demand for commodities”, so I was keen to observe the people’s attitude toward China during my…
Joint declaration pledges mutual support on key security issues MOSCOW – China and Russia deepened their strategic relationship on Thursday by vowing to support each other on core security issues. In a joint declaration, signed…
Turkey’s vibrant democracy is an inspiration to Arab countries throwing off their autocratic yoke and their Western patrons, says Eric Walberg Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) renewed mandate puts the electoral seal of…
Some years ago in New England, a group of environmentalists asked a corporate executive how his company (a paper mill) could justify dumping its raw industrial effluent into a nearby river. The river–which had taken…
In the first of a major new series following on from the ground breaking Behind the Label, Peter Salisbury takes a look at one of the biggest brands in the world – McDonald’s – and…
Africa’s handling of the Libyan crisis at the United Nations has been timorous and confusing, but it presents an opportunity as well as a challenge for the continental body on how it defines its future…
While the US Congress questions the legitimacy of the war on Libya, the Canadian parliament with one dissenting voice, votes in favor of extending Canada’s participation in an illegal and criminal military undertaking: On Tuesday,…