Mike Lux, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. July 9, 2009. We need a comprehensive policy package that is very simply focused on one thing and one thing only: jobs.
Vivian Po, New America Media. July 8, 2009. The deaths of two Uighur workers in Southern China have sparked riots, leaving at least 156 dead and more than 1,000 injured.
Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360. June 22, 2009. China is now building a series of dams that will restrict its natural flow and threaten the sustenance of tens of millions of Southeast Asians.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. June 20, 2009. The transfer of four Uighur prisoners to Bermuda has been treated like a happy human-interest story, but the truth is far darker.
Robert Parry, Consortium News. June 5, 2009. The starting point for many of the catastrophes confronting the United States today can be traced to Reagan's presidency.
Ju Young Lee, Water Matters @ Columbia AlterNet: PEEK. May 27, 2009. A new price hike will be the fifth one since 2001 in a bid to promote conservation.
Dilip Hiro, Tomdispatch.com. May 4, 2009. A new world order is emerging from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, with its center gravitating towards China.
AzzamanApril 30, 2009. Though representing a modest fraction of Iraq's oil riches, the Ahdab field was marketed as proof that security conditions have improved.
Staff, The Nation AlterNet: Environment. April 18, 2009. China's coal dependency has turned the country into the world's largest greenhouse gas producer.
* Staff, AlterNet. April 6, 2009. The first stage of the plan calls for extending some form of basic health insurance to 90 percent of the population by the end of 2011.
Lhadon Tethong, AlterNet. April 1, 2009. In spite of the troops, tanks and snipers, in spite of the beatings, arrests and disappearances -- Tibetans continue to resist.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. March 25, 2009. Amnesty International finds that while the world as a whole is moving away from the death penalty, executions went up last year.
Antoaneta Bezlova, IPS News. March 13, 2009. On the 50th anniversary of his flight from Tibet, the Dalai Lama accused China of having brought "hell on earth" to his homeland.
Daniel Luban, Jim Lobe, IPS News. March 11, 2009. The resignation of Obama's pick for National Intelligence Council Chair is a blow to hopes for a new approach to Israel-Palestine issues.
