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May 11
Don’t coddle Beijing - it must account for its role Darfur: Roméo Dallaire
Many consider it taboo to speak of the genocide in Darfur and the upcoming Beijing Olympics in the same breath. I disagree entirely. I believe the two should be firmly linked in the public’s mind, […]

(Strategic Forecasting Inc.) Kosovo, Russia and the West
2007 saw the resurgence of a long-dormant issue: independence for Serbia’s breakaway province of Kosovo. The tiny region is a key pressure point on the fault line between Russia and the West.
The subject of independence for Kosovo is re-emerging as a serious issue. The West seems intent on […]

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May 16
John McCain Trades Straight Talk for Unadulterated Fantasy
Arianna Huffington: In a speech this morning, John McCain hopped into an imaginary time machine and took us all to the year 2013, offering a sneak peek of what the world will look like at […]

Trucks are loaded with sugar cane, which will be used to produce biofuels, in Brazil. Photograph: Paulo Whitaker/Reuters
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April 17
Brazil Lula Defends Biofuels From Growing Criticism
(Reuters Planet Ark) BRASILIA - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended Brazil’s production of biofuels on Wednesday, rejecting criticism that they are furthering a surge in global food […]

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April 10
Asia’s Republican Leanings
Roger Cohen
Europe votes Democrat, but Asia tends Republican.
That’s the headline from the fastest-growing part of the world where, as throughout a shrinking globe, the U.S. election is arousing passionate interest.
The three largest powers — China, India and Japan — have all had reasons to view Bush with favor, […]

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April 05, 2008
Scammers see green dollars
Scam artists can smell a fad. They feed on naive enthusiasm. In the green movement, they’ve found enough naive enthusiasm to sustain them for years.
(The Ottawa Citizen) Many consumers are learning, slowly, not to be dupes. They’re figuring out how to detect the same old polluting products […]

Wednesday Night Goes Global - or at least partially!
On Wednesday April 2, a select group of Wednesday Nighters will gather in Athens on the first day of the New School of Athens (NSOA) Conference Athens-3 organized by Kimon Valaskakis OWN. Jaime Webbe and Cleo Paskal are participating in the Panel on Globalisation and Security: […]

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Airlines Cut Profit Outlook 10% on Fuel, U.S. Economy
By John Hughes and Andrea Rothman
April 1 (Bloomberg) — Airline profits worldwide will be 10 percent lower than the industry’s previous 2008 forecast as fuel costs rise and the U.S. economy slows, a trade group said.
Carriers will earn a collective net profit of $4.5 billion, […]

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Analysis:Why Afghanistan matters
Rasul Bakhsh Rais
Read complete Editorial of Pakistan Daily Times
Afghan leaders and neighbouring states will have to show greater wisdom, assume more responsibility and resolve imagined and real problems before a frustrated world community turns its back on the country
Three cycles of war, experienced over the past thirty years, wiped out the […]

March 26 1997 – what does the date mean to you? You may be forgiven if you do not immediately recall that the news of the Bre-X bubble burst exactly eleven year ago. “It had all the elements of a great novel: a dramatic rags to riches story, a mysterious suicide (or was it […]