Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation AlterNet: Environment. November 24, 2009. They've got a point. Per capita, China only produces 20 percent of America's carbon emissions.
Peter Bosshard, Huffington Post. November 5, 2009. After 27 million cubic meters of concrete have been poured, 1.3 million people have been displaced and up to $88 billion have been spent, it is now time to take stock.
Robert Fisk, Independent UK. October 6, 2009. Arab states have launched a secret plan with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading.
David Sirota, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. September 24, 2009. Tom Friedman may be the single stupidest figure in American public life, and certainly is the supidest writer with such a large platform.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. September 17, 2009. Obama's decision impose higher tariffs on Chinese tires is a measure to protect fair trade and the living standards of American workers.
Lester R. Brown, TreeHugger. August 28, 2009. How China ended its dependence on food aid, almost overnight, and become the world's third largest food aid donor.
Frank Nelson, Miller-McCune.com. August 24, 2009. Wal-Mart's relentless growth and Darwinian competitiveness have created a world that is increasingly inhospitable to its own success.
Craig Canine, OnEarth Magazine. August 18, 2009. Rare earth metals, found mainly in China are the key to making high-tech gadgets, from hybrid car batteries to precision-guided missiles.
Agence France Presse August 6, 2009. Hackers knocked wildly popular micro-blogging site Twitter offline for several hours Thursday with a malicious cyber-attack on its systems, according to the company's founder.
Agence France Presse July 28, 2009. "For Uighurs, taking part in demonstrations is like committing suicide," says Rebiya Kadeer of the World Uighur Congress.
Pepe Escobar, Asia Times. July 28, 2009. A nuclear Iran would inevitably turbo-charge a new, emerging multipolar world; one where the U.S. won't be relied on to control Mideast oil.
Agence France Presse July 21, 2009. Global beverage giant Coca-Cola on Tuesday reported forecast-beating quarterly profit, aided by strong volume growth in emerging markets like China and India.
Les Leopold, AlterNet. July 20, 2009. If we want a greener world and green jobs for our citizens, we have to ditch the 'free-trade' ideal -- markets on their own won't do it.
David Sirota, AlterNet. July 17, 2009. Many scholars and columnists celebrate China's gilded development. But what's beyond these capitalist pipe dreams?
Agence France Presse July 16, 2009. Dongfan 'Greg' Chung, 73 and a resident of Orange County, California, was found guilty of economic espionage and acquiring information on demand using his "secret" classified clearance.
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.