Way back in 1999, before he became China's prime minister, Wen Jiabao warned that water scarcity posed one of the greatest threats to the "survival…
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Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire.…
China’s increased trade and investment in Latin America over the past decade has resulted in powerful social and environmental impacts such as job losses and…
Harvard professor Joseph Nye, a former senior Pentagon functionary, is one of the longest serving and most influential advisers to US empire building officials. Nye has recently…
Updates on Bernanke's new big-bucks finance job, GM avoids billions in victims' claims for faulty ignitions, Seattle capitalist raises all workers to minimum $70k/yr, Americans'…
On April 15, perhaps as you’re reading these words, working people in 200 American cities will rally for a $15 base wage and the right…
Any -- exceptionalist -- wishful thinking that Russia and China will abandon their solid "win-win" strategic partnership, fully crafted to their mutual national interests, was…
If you think your doctor is hard to understand, try talking to a climate scientist. In late 2014, the World Bank published a remarkable document…
In the coming months China will lend Venezuela, which faces bankruptcy, ten billion dollars. These funds are part of a bilateral agreement. For China it’s…
After spending five long years negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, the Obama administration is now pushing for the fast-track authority from Congress that would…
Three Chinese citizens are taking China's Ministry of Agriculture to court in a bid to make public a toxicology report supporting the approval of Monsanto's…
“Just plain immoral.” That’s how Secretary of State John Kerry recently described those who stand idly by while the world burns—or, worse, obstruct those trying…