by Khadija Sharife | Jun 7, 2011 | Democracy & Governance, Labor, Trade, & Finance
Across Africa, China has become known as the agent of mass construction, wisely bartering infrastructural development – chiefly mining-specific – for long-term access to strategic resources. In the process, China foregoes the usual Western opium, of...
by Khadija Sharife | May 24, 2011 | Democracy & Governance, Labor, Trade, & Finance
Across Africa, China has become known as the agent of mass construction, wisely bartering infrastructural development – chiefly mining-specific – for long-term access to strategic resources. In the process, China foregoes the usual Western opium, of...
by John Feffer | May 10, 2011 | War & Peace
If the killing of Osama bin Laden were a Hollywood murder mystery, the shootout scene in Abbottabad would be followed by the unveiling of the sponsor who arranged for the al-Qaeda safe house. Is it the Pakistani intelligence officer who appears early in the movie to...
by Michael Busch | Apr 1, 2011 | Labor, Trade, & Finance
(Pictured: Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe and China’s President Hu Jintao.) In what has to be one of the largest protection money payouts ever recorded, the Chinese government announced last week that it had agreed to loan Zimbabwe $700 million in...
by Conn Hallinan | Mar 25, 2011 | Energy, Human Rights, War & Peace
Cynicism is not a healthy sentiment, and as the late Molly Ivins pointed out, it absolutely wrecks good journalism. But watching events in the Middle East unfold these days makes it a pretty difficult point of view to avoid. Let’s take the current U.S. bombing...
