Is China smartening up its environmental and social act in Africa? It certainly wants to be seen as doing just that. One telling example was the recent Chinese government-sponsored ‘top Chinese enterprises in Africa’ competition, won by China Road and Bridge Corporation [CRBC].
Recent elections in Bahrain and Egypt are being criticized for all the usual reasons. Authoritarian regimes — one a monarchy, the other a quasi-military dictatorship — cracked down on the media and the small opposition forces that challenged them in the run-up to the polls, eventually holding ballots with little or no monitoring.
Congress has condemned violence by extremist Palestinian extremist groups, yet when the Palestine Authority tries to advance freedom through diplomatic initiatives, the Democrats are just as quick to condemn them.
The International Committee of the Red Cross concluded that the Indian government condoned torture to gain control of Kashmir.
Even in the best of times, corporate fraud, Nazi connections, hate groups and Eastern European drug rings were lurking beneath Sweden’s surface.
It’s not just the weak African states that are corrupted by drug trafficking, but larger ones like Ghana.
How and why the U.S. assures an endless supply of “terrorists” to fight and “enemies” to destroy.
Even for those who advocate government secrecy, many of the classified documents should not have been classified at all.
You know there’s less to a disarmament treaty than meets the eye when it thrills the director of the National Nuclear Security Administration.
Hope among both Jewish and Palestinian Israelis that a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians can ever be achieved appears to be fading, according to two major new polls released here Thursday.