Thomas Friedman once said the hidden hand of the market needs the hidden fist of the military. The TPP and the Obama administration’s Pacific Pivot pack both.
Developed countries are still using the WTO to squeeze small farmers in the developing world–and developing world governments are going along with the charade.
Is a green energy revolution on the global agenda?
We need a national climate response to match the scale of the Philippines typhoon and the extreme weather happening in other parts of the world.
Like nuclear weapons, storms such as Typhoon Haiyan need their own disarmament treaty.
The super typhoon that just hit the Philippines should be a wake-up call for climate-change negotiators in Warsaw.
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The American surveillance state is now an omnipresent reality, but its deep history is little known and its future little grasped. Edward Snowden’s leaked documents reveal that, in a post-9/11 state of war, the National Security Agency (NSA) was able to create a...
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