War, Environmental Destruction, Recession: It’s Time for a Revolution
You know you are in a perilous time when the optimist and pessimist agree.
Towards a Global Climate Fund
Over 160 citizen groups call for the establishment of a major new Global Climate Fund.
Green Paper Gold
Here’s an innovative way to tackle the economic crisis and global warming in one sweeping proposal.
Speak Memory
In a country still so divided, the words of the song — Imagine all the people, living life in peace — has special resonance.
Charting a Progressive International Financial Agenda
We’ve got the best opportunity in 60 years to create a more pro-people global financial order.
Drawing the Future From the Past
Since the end to the U.S. wars in Southeast Asia, many other wars have been waged, in other parts of the world, in new terrain, villages, and communities. Yet, the wars in Southeast Asia lingers.
War and Peace: An Epic Mural
The Vietnamese-born artist Huong has created an immense mural that depicts the horror of war and the imperative of peace.
Pilot to Bombardier
Poet Kyle Dargan takes us on a bombing mission.
Obama: Stand Up to the Indonesian Military
By restricting military assistance to Indonesia, President Obama can do the most for human rights in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country.
Saving Congo: Whither the EU?
The EU has an army of sorts. Maybe it should start using it for the common good.
Obama’s Foreign Policy Challenges
The NewsHour online edition hosts a debate on Obama’s foreign policy appointees and the challenges facing the new administration
Still Waiting for a ‘Post-Racial’ America
Mulitcultural celebrations of Obama’s victory show the U.S. is hungry for hope and change. But we are far from healing our racial wounds.
Paying our Climate Debt
Why the World Bank can’t be the Climate Bank.
Postcard from…Persepolis
Barack Obama could open a new chapter in U.S.-Iranian relations by visiting Iran. He wouldn’t be alone.
‘2025’ Report: A World of Resource Strife
A new National Intelligence Council report forecasts a decline in U.S. power and an increase in competition for dwindling energy supplies that could lead to heightened tensions, internal conflict, and terrorism.
Bomb India?
When a group of militants wages a ruthless campaign against civilians, a government certainly must respond. But the issue is: what kind of response?
Obamas Agenda for Change and the 2009 Summit of the Americas
Barack Obama’s electoral victory represents hope for a change in direction for U.S. relations with Latin America.
Assessing the G-20 Declaration
This contradictory document identifies financial institution failures and calls for new regulatory measures, and at the same time, salutes the free market and some of the institutions behind the financial and economic crisis.
The Chinese Economy
A New York Times editorial advises China to adopt an American-style mass consumer economy that would be a recipe for economic, environmental, and probably political, disaster.
The Impending Development Aid Crisis
If rich countries respond to their own financial woes by slashing aid to the world’s poorest countries, the Millennium Development Goals will end up on the boulevard of broken dreams.
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