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Global food crisis: biofuels have had a bigger impact than previously claimed
Democracy; an ideal that is so often missed
Tobacco companies targeting children and contributing to environmental damage
Tobacco: a major global killer
Global food crisis: immediate causes get coverage, deeper causes get less attention
Updated figures show slight fall in foreign overseas development assistance aid
The global foreign aid shortfall is now $3.3 trillion
Illicit Drugs
China, Human Rights and Tibet
Poverty facts and stats updated
World military spending: it keeps going up
I wrote a chapter for a new book: American Wars: Illusions and Realities
The reading list now links through to Amazon; a way to support the Global Issues web site
26,500 children died today
Military in Movies; Less Shock, More Awe
Bali Climate Conference
Obesity
Children as Consumers
Food and Agriculture Issues
Food Aid
2007 Press Freedom Index
Arms Trade Spending
Energy: renewable energy cannot replace fossil and nuclear power?
Indigenous rights; declaration adopted at the UN General Assembly, plus some video clips
Vying for Dominance in the Arctic
Water is becoming a geopolitical issue of national security
Corporate Social Responsibility; How do countries rank?
Video clips on structural adjustment, debt, and free trade
Corruption is not just in poor countries, but rich countries and international institutions
G8 2007 Summit. Another failure?
G8 2007 Summit
27,000 children died around the world today
Some more articles on the War on Terror
Concentration in media ownership continues
Updated figures show slight fall in foreign overseas development assistance aid
The global foreign aid shortfall is now $3.1 trillion
US mainstream media: journalists too cozy with corporate and political power
Iran: India coerced to vote against Iran, British Hostages and more
Global Warming, Spin and Media in the UK
World military spending: it keeps going up
Women’s rights: empowering women empowers children
Global Warming, Spin and Media
Global Warming and Over Population?
Pharmaceutical companies using fear and anxiety to sell more drugs
China blows up an old satellite in space—accepting US challenge for a space arms race?
Israel has considered using tactical nuclear weapons to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities
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Polar bear numbers are declining
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UN General Assembly votes to delay adoption of UN Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
AIDS claimed an estimated 2.9 million lives in 2006
Water and development: a global problem affected almost half the world’s population
Global commercial fish and seafood species at risk of crashing
Arms trade spending increases
World military spending on the increase—1 trillion dollars in 2005
Most countries vote for an Arms Trade Treaty
North Korea’s nuclear test
US Weaponization of Space
2006 Press Freedom Index
Iran
Rights of Indigenous People
US Military Commissions Act—Eroding Accountable Government and Allowing Unchecked Powers?
Landmine use decreases; so does funding for mine action
Immigration—some 191 million immigrants live around the world
Venezuela—taking away US influence in Latin America?
Haiti—violence continues
War on terror articles: war crimes, surveillance, UK Terror plot
Israel-Lebanon crisis; Fueling more terrorism?
Israel-Lebanon crisis
WTO Doha “Development” Trade Round Collapses, at end of July 2006
As much as half of Official Development Assistance aid may be considered “phantom aid”
One year on from the G8 Summit of 2005 that seemed to promise so much in the area of tackling poverty, what has been the status so far?
Tobacco companies accused of interfering with governments’ attempts to implement the international treaty, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Bush Administration silencing its own climate scientists?
Is foreign aid failing because of the lack of accountability of donors as well as problems in recipient countries?
Water: a commodity or a fundamental human right?
Obesity: an issue of poverty, what you eat, and how you eat
Fake news: widespread use of pre-packaged video news releases
World Bank attempts to tackle corruption, but without addressing root causes
Brain Drain of Workers from Poor to Rich Countries
Foreign aid increases for 2005
America’s war on the web
Tony Blair uses spin and fear in War on Terror
Energy Security
The world’s poor are being used to test medical drugs
The accumulated global foreign aid shortfall since 1970 totals to over $2.5 trillion (at 2003 prices)
U.S. and world military spending numbers have been updated
Hundreds of new plant and animal species discovered in western New Guinea
A White House memo reveals early decision to invade Iraq even without a second UN resolution
NASA’s top climate scientist says NASA and the Bush Administration have tried to silence him
Corruption: a problem for rich countries as well as poor
Global Health Overview
Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline, promises of sustainable development faltering?
Montreal Climate Change Conference
2005 Worldwide Press Freedom Index
WTO Hong Kong Meeting Outcome
Additional articles on War on terrorism
An Arms Trade Treaty for conventional weapons?
Diseases other than AIDS that are also global killers
WTO Meeting in Hong Kong, December 2005