Infrastructure: How Would You Spend $1.6 Trillion?

"“China spends 9 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on infrastructure and India budgets 3.5 percent … while aiming to increase its allocation to 8 percent. By comparison, the United States budgets $112.9 billion or just 0.93 percent of its GDP, and sidesteps the...

IFRC to present 19,000 shelters to tsunami survivors in Aceh

""With support from 32 red cross and red crescent societies in many countries, domestic and foreign NGOs, we will enable the tsunami survivors to own the shelters," he said. The shelters are temporary dwellings consisting of galvanized steel structures and anti-termite wooden...

Post-traumatic Iraq syndrome

"Post-traumatic Iraq syndrome The war is lost. Americans should begin to deal with what that means. By Christopher J. Fettweis, CHRISTOPHER J. FETTWEIS is assistant professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College. These opinions are his own. June 12,...

Note to a Colleague: Challenge Arab, American Fanatics Alike by Rami G. Khouri

"NEW YORK -- David Brooks’ latest column in the Sunday New York Times deserves a few thoughts from a colleague who has generally admired his work, but finds him now reflecting the troubling intellectual and ideological gap between the United States and the Arab world. One...

Transcript: Cheney's Speech to AIPAC

Cheney tells AIPAC that Congressional antiwar strategy is 'undermining' US troops"VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY: Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. If Karl Rove finds out about this, he won't let me out again. (Laughter.) Well, thank you very much for that warm welcome. And...

Arizona Congressman to Mubarak: Free Blogger

Several NowPublic commentators have written in recent weeks about the four year prison sentence imposed on Egyptian blogger Kareem Solimon, convicted of defaming Islam. Representative Trent Franks (R-Arizona) has entered the fray via a Washingon Post letter to the editor. The...

Extend judicial accountability in the Middle East to all

Legitimacy demands that any intervention in the internal affairs of a country, especially detaining and trying individuals accused of crimes, be based on an international consensus anchored in credible institutions, primarily the UN Security Council."Extend judicial...

Sexual Abuse Of Children Mustn't Be Ignored In Arab Societies

"Arab societies generally tend to brush under the carpet incidents of sexual harassment of children, particularly if the delinquent is a close relative, says a visiting psychiatrist. But ignoring an incident can only aggravate the problem, says Dr Mamoun Obaid, from Belfast...

The Real World Survivor Fiji – Cultural Icons Suffer :: MAXINE

"Island nation cultural history and methods on how societies operate and evolve is an extremely important component to island life. Anyone who has traveled the Pacific knows that the undercurrent of how things operate is colored in island tribal tradition and that this is...

Big Oil The Crude Facts

"Big Oil The Crude Facts Manipulating The Oil Reserve Big Oil The Crude Facts: Thomas Palley runs the Economics for Democratic and Open Societies Project. He is the author of Plenty of Nothing: The Downsizing of the American Dream and the Case for Structural...