by Tan Copsey
Is it me or has there been a recent resurgence of media coverage of climate ‘skeptics’? The UK Channel 4 documentary ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’ which
by Rafael Broch
Robert Mugabe has displayed remarkable political resilience. Economic sanctions, international protests and a crippled populace have failed to shake his dictatorial presidency. But has this week'
by Aurelie Placais
Chinese New Year truly looks like Christmas for Europeans, a time you spend eating and talking with your family; except that the family is Chinese.
In Europe,
by Sarah Lindon
WomenEnews carries an interesting opinion piece today on the big claims often made for the role of microcredit schemes - such as Mohammad Yunus’s Grameen Bank - in
by Jessica Reed
You may remember my various blog posts about American blogger Josh Wolf, sentenced to jail last year for refusing to hand out video footage posted on his
by Tan Copsey
For many of you this post will seem utterly incomprehensible, but for Indian, Kiwi, and English oD staffers, the arrival of the 2007 cricket world cup is
Bush's goodwill sojourn in Latin America continues, and what more inappropriate place to visit than the Mayan ruins of Iximche in Guatemala?
Can the USA (or United States
Consider this:
Al-Qaida has a China problem, and no one is watching. Despite al-Qaida's significant efforts to support Muslim insurgents in China, the Chinese government has
by Johannes Koch
And the question over private military/security services/corporations/companies (PMC/PSC) - in short, 'mercenaries'- rages on! In today's news "US Contract
As Solana pointed out in our Women UNlimited blog, today is International Women's Day, first recognized by the UN in the 70s as a day to commemorate women&
Via IHT:
A court in Turkey on Wednesday ordered blockage of all access to YouTube, the popular video-sharing Web site, over a video deemed insulting to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk,
by Tan Copsey
Our favourite warrior-intellectual General David Petraeus was on the wireless this morning and as usual his comments were rather enlightening. In amongst the standard issue army
