Detailed Look at Healthcare Reform in 2009
According to a survey conducted in March of this year by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, Americans overwhelmingly (76 percent) believe that the health system is in need of fundamental change or should be completely rebuilt.
Impact of Global Economic Crisis on Forced Labor
The report also charts the significant international and national progress in reducing and preventing forced labor, but warns of the possible negative impacts of the global economic and jobs crisis on efforts to eliminate it.
Australia: Coal Mining and our Children’s Future
Because of climate change, within the lifetime of children alive today it’s entirely possible that Australia’s wonderful beaches and the lower lying areas of our coastal cities will have disappeared beneath rising sea levels, and the Great Barrier Reef will be a vast, lifeless and eroding ruin.
US Strategy in Latin America Was Wrong
Three years ago I wrote an article arguing that the political changes sweeping across Latin America were epoch-making and probably irreversible.
Sikhs Flee Swat (Pakistan), Seek Refuge in Shrine
Among the tens of thousands who have fled their homes in Swat Valley and the adjacent Buner District, North West Frontier Province, are about 2,000 Sikhs who have taken refuge in a Sikh shrine in Hasanabdal, a town about 50km from Islamabad.
UN Security Council Calls for Two-state Solution in Middle East
The UN Security Council adopted a presidential statement on Monday to call for 'renewed and urgent efforts' by the parties and the international community to achieve 'a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East' on the basis of 'the two-state solution.'
Peat Bogs and Climate Change
Peatlands are wetland ecosystems that accumulate plant material to form layers of peat soil up to 60 feet thick. They can store, on average, 10 times more carbon dioxide (CO2), the leading greenhouse gas, than other ecosystems.
Vietnam Celebrates Dien Bien Phu Anniversary
On May 7 Vietnam celebrated the 55th anniversary of its decisive victory over US–backed French colonialist forces at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu during the First Indochina War.
The Spring of the Zombies
As spring comes to America, optimists are seeing 'green sprouts' of recovery from the financial crisis and recession. The world is far different from what it was last spring, when the Bush administration was once again claiming to see 'light at the end of the tunnel.'
Obama Expands Global Health Agenda, but not Funding
JOHANNESBURG, 8 May 2009 (PlusNews) – At a time when many Americans are preoccupied with the economic crisis on their doorsteps, President Barack Obama has asked Congress to approve US$63 billion for global health over the next six years.
