“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
- Haida Indian Saying
When we borrow money we pay it back with interest, when we borrow a car we fill it with gas, and when we borrow our friends clothes we clean them before we …
The United States’ Government Accountability Office has issued a report indicating that food aid to sub-Saharan Africa is woefully insufficient. This comes as no surprise. The optimist in me sees the timing of the report — which comes on the eve of a United Nations summit in …
Recent reports in Kenya of a Boy's suicide reveals gaps in HIV education, the boy was in secondary school when he received his fateful results which was accompanied by no counseling. Soon after his results where received to committed suicide by ingesting lethal amounts of pesticide. …
David Ignatius has a column in The Washington Post revealing the ways in which Rwanda has, against all odds, managed in many ways to come to grips with the horrible events of 1994. The Rwanda story is unspeakably incomprehensible for most of us, and yet the last …
This analysis in The Mail & Guardian seems to capture pretty well the ways in which recent events — most obviously, but not solely, the explosion of violence against foreign Africans — seem to have shaken the ruling party from its complacency. The responses from Thabo Mbeki …
Simba Makoni drew a great deal of attention when he stepped out and announced his challenge to Robert Mugabe. He finished third in the recent, and still contested, elections but more importantly he may well have broken the dam of silence and fear. His candidacy simply could not draw from a …
Reuters reports today that as chief plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 defendants, it is not clear whether inculpatory statements made by the defendants will be admissible into evidence at their trials or which statements prosecutors will seek to introduce. Since many defendants will likely allege …
Not only is the planet heating up, but, as we've seen here, so is the intensity and the seriousness of the debate on how to get GHG's down. One persistent theme is the necessity of "setting a price on carbon." We've heard this from the Stern Review, …
Mexico is one of the largest exporters of corn. Nevertheless, it also imports almost half of what it consumes. In a world of skyrocketing food prices, this dependency is becoming a national security problem.
In order to reduce pressure over rising food prices, President Felipe Calderon has launched …
Frida Berrigan, a Senior Program Associate at the New America Foundation's Arms and Security Initiative, authored a scathing endictment of the military buildup that occurred during George W. Bush's presidency.
In the section called "The Pentagon as Diplomat," Berrigan argues:
” the White House's foreign policy agenda has increasingly been …
A recent report published on the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt's website takes a look at some of the perceived causes behind Egypt's declining role as a regional player in the Arab world. It features commentary made by political scientists and journalists at an annual conference held by the …
A few years after leaving his post, a once faithful minion publishes a sensational tell-all story that sends shock waves all through the nation's capital. Its revelations not only stab his ex-boss in the back, but cast doubt on the integrity of the entire administration, …
I recently added this site to the links section here. It's a pretty extraordinary tool for accessing information. It is described as "a knowledge management project for international negotiations and related activities on climate change run by the International Institute for Sustainable …
from the China Balance Sheet:
China's economic modernization has lifted almost 400 million citizens out of poverty since 1990, but 415 million Chinese still live on less than $2 per day.
In the "gotcha" spirit of our current politics, CNN is rudely replaying the archival footage of Scott McClellan dismissing Richard Clarke's tell-all book, written after Clarke left the Bush Administration in the wake of 9/11. "Why didn't he tell the President these things when he was in the White …
