Op-Ed Guest Columnist Marie Arana reminds us that there’s a dark side to the economic boom in Peru, perhaps the country least affected by the global financial crisis. Peru’s skyrocketing wealth is based around its gold mining industry; yet, as seems to be a recurring historical theme, the profits earned from this industry are concentrated [...]
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Signs of the NY Times: Asylum in Germany? Morsi visits Obama. Obama’s failed foreign policy. Clear skies over Japan.
Op-Ed Columnist Roger Cohen has written a scathing criticism, couched as book review, of Obama’s foreign policy during his first term. “The Dispensable Nation” by Vali Nasr, the ex-White House advisor and current dean at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, comes down hard on the President for letting electoral pandering affect foreign policy, [...]
Signs of the NY Times: Not too late for Global Cooling? The Taliban of Timbuktu. Gold and the Environment.
Op-Ed contributor Thomas E. Lovejoy – who in 1980 introduced the scientific community to the term “biological diversity” – is another widely respected scholar screaming for more attention to be paid to global warming. But unlike authors of many recent articles on the subject, he still has hope. Although he claims that the pre-determined allowable [...]
The US demands “flexible” climate change deal
Referring to the global climate agreement from Copenhagen, US Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern stated that China can’t be compared with Chad. But in 2009 the US itself and the BASIC-countries drafted an accord which contained the two degree target for all signers. The problem even then: a decreasing global temperature is not [...]
Signs of the NY Times: A new controversial global-warming study? H.I.V. rates rise in Uganda. Syria secular no more.
A new global-warming study by James E. Hansen faces skepticism from other scientists. Will the U.S. heat wave show up at the polls? The U.S. AIDS strategy in Uganda is failing. Pluralism is a casualty of the rebellion in Syria.
Signs of the NY Times: More prison for Shiite doctors in Bahrain, Tymoshenko in Ukraine
Shiite doctors remain in prison in Bahrain, as does former Prime Minister Tymoshenko in Ukraine. Obama lightens immigration law enforcement. Assange loses extradition appeal.
Obama: Energy Policy and its Enforceability
If only they could do it in a way that didn’t step over all the little people.
Obama: Energiepolitik und ihre Durchsetzbarkeit
“Wenn die es nur so machen könnten, daß sie nicht ständig die kleinen Leute übersehen.”
Pakistan: Revolution As They See It
“We must also work to change the mentality and culture in Pakistan…”
Pakistan: Revolution, wie sie es meinen
“Wir müssen auch an der Veränderung der Mentalität und der Kultur in Pakistan arbeiten…”
