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President Obama’s 2nd term
October 1, 2013, 1 Comment

State of the Union 2013: President Obama’s address to Congress (Transcript) Why the Shutdown Looks So Bad for the GOP ...

Earth Overshoot Day
August 23, 2013, Comments Off on Earth Overshoot Day

Earth Overshoot Day In 8 Months, Humanity Exhausts Earth’s Budget for the Year August 20 is Earth Overshoot Day 20 ...

Arctic Meltdown: Economic and Security Implications of Global Warming
August 22, 2013, Comments Off on Arctic Meltdown: Economic and Security Implications of Global Warming

Northeast Passage: Russia Moves to Boost Arctic Shipping This year has seen a record number of ships pass through the No ...

Alberta floods 2013
July 26, 2013, Comments Off on Alberta floods 2013

Naheed Nenshi Dear Diary: ‘This is no miracle, no act of providence. This is Calgary’ Tuesday Where there was once a ...

Arctic Exploitation
July 11, 2013, 1 Comment

Who Owns the Arctic? A Stocktaking of Territorial Disputes (NYT) The Arctic Council agreed on Wednesday to expand to inc ...

The Future of the State of Africa
June 10, 2013, Comments Off on The Future of the State of Africa

George Monbiot: Corporate Carve-Up Under the pretext of preventing hunger, the rich nations are engineering a new scramb ...

Canada and the UN
May 7, 2013, Comments Off on Canada and the UN

The root of the problem or simply a contributing factor? Canada abandons UN bid in embarrassing turn for Harper Canada&# ...

Hugo Chavez 1954-2013
April 15, 2013, Comments Off on Hugo Chavez 1954-2013

Curious coincidence that Mr. Chavez died on the 60th anniversary of Stalin’s death. Hugo Chavez: 1954-2013 From an ...

Aid, Development and Progress 2012-2013
March 29, 2013, Comments Off on Aid, Development and Progress 2012-2013

OECD and the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation Annals of development — Dangerous delusions ...

Peter Trent launches Merger book
March 6, 2013, 2 Comments

Write-up and photos of Politics and the Pen awards dinner A preview of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing ...

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