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 30th December 07 - Paul Rogers, Open Democracy
The era of nuclear weapons and of global climate change poses dangers to
human existence which must be addressed in coming decades.
On 16 July 1945, an experimental plutonium-fuelled implosion device with a
power of over 10,000 tons of conventional high explosive (i.e., ten "kilotons")
was tested in
the New Mexico desert. The nuclear age was born.
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 20th December 07 - Claire Soares and Daniel Howden, The Independent (UK) If doctors edited newspapers...the frontline physicians at Medecins Sans Frontieres have chosen the 10 humanitarian crises that should have been given more coverage in 2007. |
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 10th December 07 - Michael T Klare, Foreign Policy in Focus When our grandchildren and more distant descendants assemble in such classrooms as may be available and ask their teachers, “Why did our ancestors not take effective action to prevent the catastrophic effects of climate change?” one of the answers will surely be, “The war in Iraq.”
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 4th December 07 - Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy in Focus
Despite the best efforts by the Bush administration of putting a positive spin on the recently-completed summit in Annapolis to restart the “Performance-Based Road Map to Peace,” there is little reason to expect that it will actually move the Israeli-Palestinian peace process forward as long as the United States insists on simultaneously playing the role of chief mediator and chief supporter of the more powerful of the two parties. |
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 30th November 07 - Naomi Klein, The Guardian (UK)
Far from saving us from catastrophe, the market is developing fortresses to shield the haves from the victims of the future
Anyone tired of lousy news from the markets should talk to Douglas Lloyd, a director of Venture Business Research, which tracks trends in venture capitalism. "I expect investment activity in this sector to remain buoyant," he said recently. Lloyd's bouncy mood was inspired by the money that is gushing into private security and defence companies. He added: "I also see this as a more attractive sector, as many do, than clean energy."
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 23rd November 07, Ken Olende, Socialist Worker
The US government is planning to take its “war on terror” into new territory – Africa. Plans to establish a network of US-friendly military bases and a cross-continent command structure are well underway. Many Africans believe that an enlarged US military presence will intensify existing civil wars and fan the flames of ethnic conflict, while strengthening the grip of Western multinationals which are clamouring for Africa’s oil and natural resources. |
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 15th November 07 - Jim Lobe, IPS News
U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could cost U.S. taxpayers as much as 3.5 trillion dollars through 2017 if both direct and indirect, or "hidden", costs are taken into account, according to a new report released here Tuesday by Democrats in Congress. |
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