Lou Jing Faces Racism On TV Talent Show In China Over Skin Color

The 20-year-old Lou Jing found herself facing racism on China's TV talent show over her skin color. Lou Jing is half Chinese and half African-American. Her father left China before she was born, and Lou Jing was raised by her single mother. Jing says she has not felt much...

Iranian Chief Nuclear Negotiator Calls for Nuclear Weapons Ban

Iran's Chief Nuclear Negotiator, Saeed Jalili, has called on all nations with nuclear weapons to disarm. While calling for this ban, Saeed Jalili, emphasized that nations have the right to develop nuclear...

Bank Of China Official: The World Is Running Out Of Money To Buy

Zhu Min, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China has issued a stark warning to President Obama and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. China's appetite for United States Treasuries is rapidly declining. China believes it is getting harder for governments to buy United...

Cambodia Deports Uyghur Refugees to China

The Cambodian government deported 20 Uyghur refugees to China despite protests by human rights groups.  Two of the original refugees have disappeared within Cambodia.  Included in the 20 deported refugees are two small children.  All have been labelled...

In Iran Sanctions Plea, Obama Warns of Possible Israeli Strike

President Obama is laying it on the line with the Chinese and others who are against imposing strict sanctions against Iran. Israel will strike and there is nothing that the U.S. can do to change their mind." The United States cannot indefinitely prevent Israel from launching...

Copenhagen-Meaningful Agreement reached-Obama Call to Action

Today is the last day of the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit.  When world leaders arrived yesterday and early today, they were expecting to look at a draft document that they could finalize and sign. It...

Copenhagen: Climate Deal Highly Unlikely

Environmentalists call it the Number one issue plaguing the planet.  Detractors call it drummed up.  Whatever you believe, one thing has become obvious over these past two weeks, large events such...

Is America a Civilized Nation?

     According to an NPR news article, communist China has recently refused to give a written promise regarding it's supposed  endeavor to curb the output of pollution, citing the USA's...

Pakistan’s stability is main goal, US

"Vice President Joseph Biden says that Obama administration is focused on improving Pakistan’s stability, safeguarding its nuclear weapons program and defeating al-Qaida militants, but officials first must ensure...

China Just Broke Russia's Monopoly On Central-Asian Natural Gas

"With one flick of a switch, Russia's long-standing dominance and near monopoly over Central Asian natural-gas exports officially came to an end on Monday. The Turkmenistan-China pipeline, which will carry natural gas from eastern ...

A Silent Tibet in New Pursuit

For outsiders, including many <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Han Chinese, Tibet remains a mysterious place and is closely associated with key words like Dalai Lama, riot and suppression. So, is the real Tibet the same as the media-perception one?   In the second...

What does China really want? Is USA in need of a good translator?

Is the USA and the rest of the world listening to what China has to say?  China is not really after money to clean up their own pollution act, what they want is the West more responsible I am pretty damn sure...

Iraq oil development rights won by Shell

Well, well that's what its all about...  To the winners goes the spoils, err well oil in this case,  Iraq oil wells. Oh China, lost...   Its now time to exploit Iraq, the new regime needs to...

The End of the War, And Then What?

     The recent news, while President Obama is across the pond accepting his award of the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize, like it or not, is that the U.S. is in for another buildup...

Nepal: Polity for Peace

Nepal: Polity for Peace   Krishna Hari Pushkar   The article deals with the political dilemmas of ongoing peace and constitution building process of Nepal and it provides possible ways out of the topsy-turvydom. It...

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