Articles on the Global Issues web site
This web site has numerous articles categorized into various issues. Some articles can of course be in more than one issue as many are inter-related:
Articles
- Poverty Facts and Stats
- Structural Adjustment—a Major Cause of Poverty
- Poverty Around The World
- Today, around 21,000 children died around the world
- Economic Democracy
- Causes of Hunger are related to Poverty
- Solving World Hunger Means Solving World Poverty
- Food Aid as Dumping
- Myth: More US aid will help the hungry
- High concentration on a few governments
- Aid—a lever to impose Structural Adjustment on Third World
- Food aid often does not target the hungry
- Food aid forestalls development
- U.S. contributes directly to armed conflicts around the world
- "Good" aid projects obscures an uglier reality
- Even most development assistance fails the poor and hungry
- The Iceberg
- How aid could benefit the hungry
- Notes and sources for “Myth: More US aid will help the hungry”
- World hunger related links for more information
- Corruption
- United Nations World Summit 2005
- IMF & World Bank Protests, Washington D.C.
- Poverty Links for More Information
- Causes of the Debt Crisis
- The Scale of the Debt Crisis
- The Heavily In-debt Poor Countries Initiative is Not Working
- Debt Cancellation and Public Pressure
- Debt and the Global Economic Crisis of 1997/98/99
- Debt and the Effect on Children
- Debt and the Environment
- How it all Began; Causes of the Debt Crisis
- A silent war; The devastating impact of debt on the poor
- The impact of the debt crisis on all of us
- New report reveals third world debt package failings
- Reality Check: the need for deeper debt cancellation
- A Primer on Neoliberalism
- Criticisms of Current Forms of Free Trade
- The WTO and Free Trade
- WTO Doha “Development” Trade Round Collapse, 2006
- Deregulation or Protectionism?
- Some Regional Free Trade Agreements
- The Mainstream Media and Free Trade
- Public Protests Around The World
- WTO Protests in Seattle, 1999
- General Agreement on Trade in Services
- Multilateral Agreement on Investment
- The Rise of Corporations
- Corporations and Human Rights
- Pharmaceutical Corporations and Medical Research
- Pharmaceutical Corporations and AIDS
- Tax Avoidance and Tax Havens; Undermining Democracy
- Corporations and the Environment
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Corporate Influence on Children
- Corporations and Worker’s Rights
- Influence at the World Trade Organization
- Corporate Power Facts and Stats
- Creating the Consumer
- Children as Consumers
- Effects of Consumerism
- Tobacco
- Obesity
- Sugar
- Beef
- Bananas
- Wasted Wealth, Capital, Labor and Resources
- Mathematics of Wasted Labor—an Example
- Consumption and Consumerism Links and Resources
- Sustainable Development Introduction
- Poverty and the Environment
- Non-governmental Organizations on Development Issues
- Foreign Aid for Development Assistance
- G8 Summits: Empty promises each year
- G8 Summit 2007
- G8 Summit 2005—One Year On
- G8 Summit 2005
- Water and Development
- Brain Drain of Workers from Poor to Rich Countries
- World Summit on Sustainable Development
- United Nations on Development Issues
- Child Labor
- The Banana Trade War
- Trade, Economic Links For More Information
- The Arms Trade is Big Business
- World Military Spending
- Training Human Rights Violators
- Military Propaganda for Arms Sales
- Small Arms—they cause 90% of civilian casualties
- A Code of Conduct for Arms Sales
- Landmines
- Arms Trade Links for more information
- The US Nuclear Superpower
- North Korea and Nuclear Weapons
- India and Pakistan go Nuclear
- The US and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
- Militarization and Weaponization of Outer Space
- Star Wars; Phantom Menace or New Hope?
- Arms Control Links for More Information
- Conflicts in Africa—Introduction
- A Comparison With Kosovo
- The Democratic Republic of Congo
- Nigeria and Oil
- Sierra Leone
- Conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea
- Rwanda
- AIDS in Africa
- Africa Links for more information
- Democracy
- Energy Security
- Illicit Drugs
- International Criminal Court: Introduction
- United States and the International Criminal Court
- Signing Up to the International Criminal Court by December 2002
- Establishing the International Criminal Court in 1998
- International Criminal Court: The Pinochet Case
- International Criminal Court Links
- Middle East: A 1300 Year Struggle for Control of Resources
- Middle East and North Africa Unrest
- Crisis in Libya
- Control of Resources; Supporting Dictators, Rise of Terrorism
- Iran
- Iraq—2003 onwards; War, Aftermath and Post-Saddam
- Iraq - WikiLeaks - More Damaging Revelations for the US
- Iraq War Media Reporting, Journalism and Propaganda
- Aftermath and Rebuilding Iraq
- Iraq: Lack of Security and Deteriorating Conditions
- Justifying the Iraq War and WMDs
- Iraq War and Geopolitics
- Handover of Power to Iraqis
- Iraq Links for More Information
- US/UK Buildup for War on Iraq
- Iraq—Post 1991 Persian Gulf War/Sanctions
- Palestine and Israel Introduction
- The Middle East conflict—a brief background
- Crisis in Lebanon, 2006
- Oslo Dead? Violence and Palestinian Uprising in 2000
- Palestine/Israel Links to more information
- The “Threat” of Islam
- The Strikes against Afghanistan and Sudan
- More Information on the Middle East
- War on Terror FAQs
- Sept 11 Reaction and in Context
- War is Peace
- Solidarity against all forms of terrorism
- The Algebra of Infinite Justice
- Shocked and Horrified
- Muslims ask: Why do they hate us?
- Americans must now feel what the rest of us have known
- Chomsky: The World After Sept. 11
- Terrorism As Cannibalism
- Different Valuations of Life
- 11 Things to Remember on September 11
- Remembering the Nonviolent September 11
- 9/11 and Manipulation of the USA
- 100 years later: “Satyagraha”, Gandhi’s Non-violent Resistance Movement, September 11, 1906
- War on Terror Mainstream Media and Propaganda
- Here we go again
- New Slogan in Washington: Watch What You Say
- No To US-demanded Crackdown on Free Media
- Attempts to influence flow of news in Middle East
- The Media’s Battle Cry
- CNN of the Arab World
- War Needs Good Public Relations
- The War on Journalism
- Pushing the Media Right
- Where no news is good news
- The media missed the story in Afghanistan
- Are The Media Ready For A New War?
- Patriotism and Censorship
- Beyond Good and Evil
- Why does John Malkovich want to kill me?
- Bush team enlists Madison Avenue in war on terror
- Branding New and Improved Wars
- Muslim-as-Apple-Pie Videos Are Greeted With Skepticism
- Shredding the First Amendment
- Is Office of Strategic Influence Gone?
- Killed by friendly fire in US infowar
- Whatever Happened to Homeland Security?
- What the US papers don’t say
- The 'Prop-Agenda' At War
- Pentagon Rolls Out Stealth PR
- Hearts, Minds, and Dollars
- Blair Using Fear and Spin for War on Terror
- The Trouble with Bush’s “Islamofascism”
- Hijacking 9/11
- “Have You No Sense of Decency, Sir?”
- “Fascism” Frame Set Up by Neocon Press
- As Others See U.S.—The “War on Terror”
- The Statistical Invisibility of Islamist 'Terrorism' in Europe
- Journalists Held in US Military Prisons
- What US Lobbyists Do for Dictators
- New War on Terror
- Why I Opposed the Resolution to Authorize Force
- Main aid agencies reject US air drops
- Folly of aid and bombs
- Bombing Will Not Make U.S. More Secure
- US attacks raise mixed feelings in Africa
- Killing Them Softly: Starvation and Dollar Bills For Afghan Kids
- Mr. Bush is abusing both the UN and international law
- This is Not a War on Terrorism
- The Empire Wants War, Not Justice
- This War is a Fraud
- Hypocrisy, hatred and the war on terror
- Unjustified means
- World Opinion Opposes the Attack on Afghanistan
- Mass Death of Civilians in Afghanistan
- Congratulations America
- Annotated State of The Union
- Thoughts About America
- Kill the Messenger
- Tech companies chase homeland security
- Buying Trouble: Your Grocery List Could Spark a Terror Probe
- The return to Afghanistan: Collateral damage
- Afghan massacre haunts Pentagon
- Why U.S. Intelligence Stumbled
- Afghanistan: Time of transition
- Top White House Anti-Terror Boss Resigns
- This War on Terrorism is Bogus
- Rumsfeld Doubts on Terror War
- Iranian Agent Warned U.S. of Impending al-Qaida Attack
- American Troops Killing and Abusing Afghans
- War Rules and Law Enforcement Rules in Terror War
- Gap Grows Between U.S., World Public Opinion
- Bush Terror War Suffers Body Blow in Spain
- Guantanamo: Maybe None of Them Are Terrorists
- Blix Says Iraq War May Have Worsened Terror Threat
- War on Terrorism Looks Like a Loser
- US plans to 'fight the net' revealed
- America’s War on the Web
- Thousands Wrongly on Terror List
- War on Terror: Crackdown on Civil Rights; War on Freedom
- Amnesty International: Human Rights Backlash
- U.S. Intensifies the War of Words
- America’s hyperreal war on terrorism
- Post-September 11 Corporate Stance
- Goodbye to Patriotism
- The Silence on Terrorism
- The New McCarthyism
- American Caesar
- Farewell Liberty
- Bush’s Aggressive Accounting
- Race War
- The War on Dissent Widens
- The USA PATRIOT Act Was Planned Before 9/11
- FBI digs deeper into the Web
- Seven Points
- The War on Freedom and Democracy in the EU
- Overview of Changes to Legal Rights
- How I became a target for America’s zealots
- Washington’s Eye on the Internet
- High treason in the U.S. government
- US Librarians See 'Big Brother' Monitoring
- Muted Response to Ashcroft’s Sneak Attack on Liberties
- Our Designated Killers, 'Where Is the Outrage?'
- Our voices are lost in the tide of intolerance sweeping America
- Broad Domestic Role Asked for C.I.A. and the Pentagon
- Amnesty International: No Shortcut to Genuine Security
- Asian Security Talks Risk Giving Green Light to Repression
- South African Anti-Terror Bill Draconian
- Rage. Mistrust. Hatred. Fear. Uncle Sam’s Enemies Within
- US Anti-war Activists Hit by Secret Airport Ban
- On the Record
- Army Admits Using JetBlue Data
- Congress Defunds Controversial 'Total Information' Program
- Federal Judge Rules Part of Patriot Act Unconstitutional
- Executive Power after 9-11 in the United States
- War on Terror or War on Liberties?
- War on Global Values
- India’s 'No' to 9-11 Legacy
- Homeland Security: The price of safety
- Republicans See Signs That Pentagon Is Evading Oversight
- Is the Pentagon spying on Americans?
- Judge Rules NSA Warrantless Spy Program Unconstitutional
- Pentagon is keeping secret tabs on peaceful protest activities
- Is Princeton Professor and Retired Marine on Government No-Fly List for Criticizing the White House?
- Corporate Takeover of US Intelligence
- US and Europe Near Agreement on Private Data
- US Military Commissions Act 2006—Unchecked Powers?
- “A Total Rollback Of Everything US Has Stood For”: Sen. Patrick Leahy
- Sayonara to Checks and Balances?
- Bush Offers Himself Amnesty for Human Rights Crimes
- US Military Commissions Act 2006—Turning Bad Policy Into Bad Law
- Groups Unanimously Assail New Detention Law
- US War Crimes Act Changes Would Reduce Threat Of Prosecution
- President Bush Acknowledges Secret Prisons
- Outlawed: Extraordinary Rendition, Torture and Disappearances in the “War on Terror”
- Detainee Memo Created Divide in White House
- Bush Administration seeks silence on CIA prisons
- War Crimes Suit Prepared against Rumsfeld
- Bush’s Torture Ban is Full of Loopholes
- 9/11 Investigation
- 9/11 Commission says US agencies slow its inquiry
- Who Knew? The unanswered questions of 9/11
- 9/11 Commission Could Subpoena Oval Office Files
- 9/11 Chair: Attack Was Preventable
- Where Was the Air Force? The Real Question on 9-11
- Toothless Commission: Holes in the Investigation
- The Explosion of the 9-11 Truth Movement—U.S. Media’s Dirty Little Secret
- Failures of the Sept 11 Commission
- Questions Persist Despite 9/11 Investigations
- What Price Unanimity?
- An Excuse-Spouting Bush Is Busted by 9/11 Report
- The 9/11 Report Misses the Point
- Ex-Feds Blast 9-11 Panel and Bush
- War on Terror Geopolitics
- Oil Politics in Central Asia
- Unintended Consequences
- Distortion, Deception, and Terrorism
- Why is there a War in Afghanistan?
- The Great Game
- Reaching the Parts Other Empires Could not Reach
- The Colder War
- Europe’s Cry That U.S. Won’t Consult
- The U.S. War on Terror and East Asia
- Axis Of Evil—in Washington
- Blair’s Britain Wants a Return to Age of Empire
- Diplomatic Impunity
- Why is America Hated in the Middle East
- New Crusade: The U.S. War on Terrorism
- Terror and Just Response
- Mourn on the Fourth of July
- Sweeping Military Aid Under the Anti-Terrorism Rug
- Bali and Imperialism
- New World Disorder: Arms Dealers Profit from War on Terror
- A New Pearl Harbor
- U.S. Cold War Propaganda in the Middle East
- U.S. military in Europe: The Pentagon’s Eastern obsession
- Harold Pinter—Nobel Lecture: Art, Truth & Politics
- War On Terrorism Leaves South Asia in Turmoil
- Gates Dealing with Blowback from His CIA Policies
- War on Terror: Civilization and Ideology
- Terrorism
- 13 Questions for George Bush
- Anatomy of a Victory: CIA’s Covert Afghan War
- Bin Laden Comes Home To Roost
- U.N. Terrorism Talks Favour Cooperation Over Retaliation
- The Real Muslim Extremists
- Backyard Terrorism; U.S. training terrorists for years
- Who are the Global Terrorists?
- Could the Taleban Have Helped the US Against al-Qaida?
- From U.S., the ABC’s of Jihad
- Bush & the Media Cover up the Jihad Schoolbook Scandal
- Original 9/11 Plan Involved 10 Planes
- Spain: As Many as 12 Million Say 'No' to Terrorism
- Spain: Terrorism, Lies and Elections
- Fundamentalist Violence is Spreading
- How to Lose the War on Terror
- The New Face of Al Qaeda
- The London Blasts, July 2005
- Suspicious behaviour on the tube (London Underground)
- Former British Ambassador on Alleged UK Terror Plot
- Is There Still a Terrorist Threat?
- Five Years In, Bush Is Losing Terror War
- US Spy Agencies: Iraq War Worsens Terror Threat
- US report says Iraq fuels terror
- Mumbai: 9 is not 11 (and November is not September)
- Full List of Articles in War On Terror section
- War on Terror Links and Resources
- Military Expansion Serving Economic Objectives
- The Bush Doctrine of Pre-emptive Strikes; A Global Pax Americana
- The Clinton Doctrine of Humanitarian Interventions
- A European Defense Force
- Dominance and Change in the Arctic
- Foreign Policy—National Interests
- Arms Race
- Power and Empire Links for More Information
- Backing up Globalization with Military Might
- Children, Conflicts and the Military
- Crisis in Chechnya
- The Need for NATO
- The Kosovo Crisis
- Crisis in East Timor
- Human Rights In Various Regions
- The Internet and Human Rights
- Rights of the Child
- A Chronology of the Global Human Rights Struggle
- Human Rights Links for more Information
- Mainstream Media Introduction
- War, Propaganda and the Media
- Media Manipulation
- Corporate Influence in the Media
- Media in the United States
- Media Links for more Information
- Racism
- Women’s Rights
- Rights of Indigenous People
- Why Is Biodiversity Important? Who Cares?
- Loss of Biodiversity and Extinctions
- Climate Change Affects Biodiversity
- Coral Reefs
- Biosafety Protocol 1999
- Biosafety Protocol 2000
- Biodiversity Links for more Information
- Climate Change and Global Warming Introduction
- Global Dimming
- UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
- Reactions to Climate Change Negotiations and Action
- Global Warming, Spin and Media
- Climate Justice and Equity
- Climate Change Flexibility Mechanisms
- Carbon Sinks, Forests and Climate Change
- Global Warming and Population
- Action on climate change is cheaper than inaction
- COP20—Lima Climate Conference
- COP19—Warsaw Climate Conference
- COP18—Doha Climate Conference
- COP17—Durban Climate Conference
- COP16—Cancún Climate Conference
- COP15—Copenhagen Climate Conference
- COP14—Poznań Climate Conference
- COP13—Bali Climate Conference
- COP11—Montreal Climate Conference
- COP10—Buenos Aires Climate Conference
- COP8—Delhi Climate Conference
- COP7—Marrakesh Climate Conference
- COP6—The Hague Climate Conference
- COP4—Buenos Aires Climate Conference
- COP3—Kyoto Protocol Climate Conference
- The Ozone Layer and Climate Change
- El Niño and Climate Change
- Climate Change Links for more Information
- Populations: A Numbers Game
- Population and Feeding the World
- Land Rights
- Myth: Too Many Mouths to Feed
- Is population growth out of control?
- The demographic transition
- Does "Overpopulation" cause hunger?
- Poverty and population growth: lessons from our own past
- Good and bad fertility decline
- But we don’t have time
- Upping the ante
- China’s Solution?
- The challenge ahead
- Notes and sources for “Myth: Too Many Mouths to Feed”
- Links for More Information on Feeding the World
- Stress on the environment, society and resources?
- Other Issues Affect and Get Affected by Population
- Effects of Over-Consumption and Increasing Populations
- Gender and Population Issues
- Population Links for More Information
- Media and Natural Disasters
- Hurricane Katrina
- Asian Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster
- Third World Debt and Disaster Recovery
- Natural Disasters Links for More Information
- Nature and Animal Conservation
- Global Health Overview
- Diseases—Ignored Global Killers
- AIDS around the world
- Global Food Crisis 2008
- Food Aid
- Is GE Food Safe?
- "GE Technologies will solve world hunger"
- Food Patents—Stealing Indigenous Knowledge?
- GE Food Media Coverage
- Functional Foods—the next wave of GE foods
- Terminator Technology
- Monsanto—a major player in GE Technology
- Public Concerns and Protests on GE Food
- Genetically Engineered Food Links for more Information
- Global Issues Links
- Global Issues Favorite Quotes
- Global Financial Crisis
- The Gaza Crisis
- Health Care Around the World
- Military Aid
- Addressing Biodiversity Loss
- Health in the Media
- Pineapples
- Japan Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Crisis
- Cote d’Ivoire Crisis
- East Africa Food Crisis 2011
- Syria Unrest
- Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development
- Surveillance State: NSA Spying and more
- Ebola Outbreak in West Africa