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July 05, 2007 |
Business signs on to the UN Global Compact
Int'l Herald Tribune
The threat of climate change and the rapid pace of globalization are spurring more corporations to sign on to the UN Global Compact for good business practices, but civil rights and environmental campaigners are calling on the United Nations to make sure that companies live up to their promises. |
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July 03, 2007 |
Gaddafi dreams of leading US of Africa
Telegraph (UK)
Colonel Gaddafi yesterday called for the creation of a "United States of Africa", and appeared to be positioning himself to be its first leader. |
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June 29, 2007 |
Russia lays claim to the North Pole - and all its gas, oil, and diamonds
Daily Mail (UK)
Russian President Vladimir Putin is making an astonishing bid to grab a vast chunk of the Arctic - so he can tap its vast potential oil, gas and mineral wealth. |
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June 27, 2007 |
UN: Half the World Soon to Be in Cities
Breitbnart.com
Some 3.3 billion people—more than half of humanity—will be living in cities by next year, according to a U.N. report released Wednesday. By 2030, cities will be home to close to 5 billion. |
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June 22, 2007 |
Blair fights over national sovereignty
Financial Times
European leaders arrived in Brussels on Thursday afternoon with Tony Blair, UK prime minister, warning that prospects for a deal on a watered down version of the EU constitution were only “touch and go”. |
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June 12, 2007 |
Blackstone co-founders to reap at least $2.3B
CNNMoney
Blackstone Group issued compensation details for the first time Monday, disclosing in a filing that its co-founders will receive at least $2.33 billion after part of the firm is taken public. |
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June 04, 2007 |
Vermont seeking to sececede from U.S.?
Boston Globe
At Riverwalk Records, the all-vinyl record store just down the street from the state Capitol, the black "US Out of Vt.!" T-shirts are among the hottest sellers. |
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June 04, 2007 |
The G8 Meltdown
UPI
This week's Group of Eight summit in Germany may be the last, or almost the last of its kind. When this process began in the mid-1970s, the five founding members of the United States, Japan, Germany, France and Britain were without question the world's richest and most important industrial democracies. |
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May 31, 2007 |
President Bush has torn the conservative coalition asunder
Wall Street Journal
Peggy Noonan: What political conservatives and on-the-ground Republicans must understand at this point is that they are not breaking with the White House on immigration. They are not resisting, fighting and thereby setting down a historical marker--"At this point the break became final." |
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May 31, 2007 |
'High priests of globalization' in Istanbul
Turkish Daily News
Some call it "the multinational government", some call it the "elite club which shapes world policies" while others say it essentially "fixes" the world's fate. It literally breeds conspiracy theories all around the world with its secrecy, while participants say it is only a private gathering that should be respected. |
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