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...

When We're Done, What Have We Won?

AFGHANISTAN: Starting Position: Vast, dusty, desolate, mountainous dessert, land-locked place with a population of medieval style uneducated people led by a dysfunctional regime Ending Position: Vast, dusty,...

Climate change; is it for real or are we being mislead?

By, Uwe Paschen.  Climate change is on many peoples mind these days and some do wonder whether it is for real or if we are being mislead? One may first have to define climate change. Climate change is any...

Should LOC be declared as International Border - Kashmir

Kashmir is one the disputed slice between India, Pakistan and China. There has been various talks as well as proposed solution but none resulted in solution. Here we discuss on solution to Jammu and Kashmir through peaceful mean. " India's relation with Pakistan are worst...

8 killed, 26 injured in China school stampede

"Beijing: Eight youths were killed and 26 injured when students descending a crowded staircase after evening classes at a school in central China lost their footing amid a crush of bodies, state media and the local...

'Fake fingerprint' Chinese woman fools Japan controls

Biometrics checks using finger prints can be fooled, one only has to have the money for skin surgery to some US$15,000 to fool immigration is a worth while price to pay.    " A Chinese woman managed to...

South Korean infants on sales Part 2: the truth revealed

"It was disturbing for many people to hear the recent report exposing the South Korean black market community selling babies on the Internet. The report was exposing the illegal adoption over the Internet in South Korea. Some, based on the report, are teenagers who are...

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