With Increased Arms Spending, Latin American States Jockey for Regional Position
by José Orozco
World Politics Watch
29 Apr 2007
Available at: http://www.worldpoliticswatch.com/article.aspx?id=739#
CARACAS, Venezuela — Known for military strongmen, [...]
Wolfowitz and the World Bank at Bay
Project Syndicate
By Kenneth Rogoff
Kenneth Rogoff is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and was formerly chief economist at the IMF.
Available at: http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rogoff30/English
Will World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz’s troubles finally catalyze real change at the World Bank? Will there finally be an end to the archaic [...]
Bush Flunks Diplomacy 101: How to infuriate Russia and the European Union and waste $10 billion a year
by Fred Kaplan
Slate Magazine
23 April 2007
Available at: http://www.slate.com/id/2164831/
As Casey Stengel once screamed, “Can’t anybody here play this game?”*
It’s one thing to waste $10 billion a year quixotically developing a missile-defense system; President Bush clearly announced from the [...]
Today in Mexico City were legalized the first-trimester abortions , with this women in the capital will enjoy a right once so politically taboo that it went virtually unmentioned during the 2006 elections
By Kelly Arthur Garrett/The Herald Mexico / El Universal / Martes 24 de abril de 2007
In fact, things have moved so rapidly that the [...]
Virginia Tech shakes Korean campuses
Asia Times OnlineBy Donald Kirk
Available at: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/ID20Dg01.html
SEOUL - In the student center of Korea [...]
April 18, 2007
Hearing attended by over 50 speakers
On Tuesday, the UN Security Council conducted its first ever debate on climate change. The discussion initiated by Britain, which holds the Presidency for the 15 member council for the month of April said that debate on climate change is necessary as it directly relates to the [...]
The Next Crusade: Paul Wolfowitz at the World Bank
The New Yorker
by John Cassidy
9 April 2007
Available at: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/09/070409fa_fact_cassidy
The Selimiye Mosque, in Edirne, a city in northwest Turkey, is a magnificent stone edifice, with four minarets and an austere, octagonal-shaped body supporting a large dome. Built for Sultan Selim II in the sixteenth century, it has [...]
On Thursday, the Indian Government announced that it successfully tested its’ long range Agni missile. With a range of 3,000 km, the Agni-III is capable of reaching almost any part in Asia. The official press release from the Ministry of Defense lauded on the scientific achievement of Indian scientists and “for achieving another [...]
I would like to represent all of us at the Chicago International Model United Nations (CIMUN) in support of Chicago’s 2016 Olympic bid!
Chicago is a global city, ranked by geographers at the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Study Group at Loughborough University in Britain as one of the world’s top 10 “alpha world cities.” [...]
Even as Africa Hungers, Policy Slows Delivery of U.S. Food Aid
The New York Times
April 7, 2007
By CELIA W. DUGGER
Available from: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/07/world/africa/07zambia.html?em&ex=1176350400&en=f18c40930f0aa4a8&ei=5087%0A
MULONDO, Zambia — Traveling to school in wobbly dugout canoes, Munalula Muhau and her three cousins, 7- and 8-year-olds whose parents had died from AIDS, held onto just one possession: battered tin bowls to receive [...]