China and India Join Forces on Climate

Staff / Truthdig Oct 26, 2009 China and India, which together represent well over a third of the world's population, will be negotiating in concert at the upcoming climate summit in Copenhagen The two booming economies produce most of the developing world's CO2, but they've also made big commitments -- China especially -- to (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

United Nations: 1 Billion Going Hungry Worldwide

Staff / Truthdig Oct 15, 2009 Global hunger is a "world emergency" now, if it wasn't before, with the number of hungry people rising to a record 1 billion, according to the United Nations. Given this scary statistic, it's not looking good for a goal, set in 2000, to reduce the number of people going hungry worldwide by half by 2015. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Japan Exits Recession

Staff / Truthdig Aug 17, 2009 The world's second-largest economy is back in the black. Japan's economic growth is positive for the first time in over a year, beating expectations. The good news comes as the economies of Germany and France are also growing and China is in full boom. Kanpai! Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Russia: No Rebuilding of Georgia’s Military

Staff / Truthdig Jul 24, 2009 Russia has announced it will take "concrete steps" to hinder any attempt by Georgia to rebuild its military capability, claiming it is "deeply worried" that its small neighbor might be preparing for yet another conflict. The stern words come as Vice President Joe Biden pays a visit to Georgia just ahead of the first anniversary of its war with Russia over South Ossetia. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Four Weddings and Four Funerals

Staff / Truthdig Jul 20, 2009 The Nepalese government has stirred up a hornet's nest of criticism with a plan to pay men to marry Nepalese women who were widowed in the country's 10-year civil war. Women's groups are calling the plan humiliating and contrary to human rights. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

More Than 150 Dead in China Protests

Staff / Truthdig Jul 6, 2009 Chinese state media are reporting more than 150 people dead and more than 800 injured in what the China Daily describes as a riot on the part of Uighur "outlaws." Those figures and the nature of the protests are fiercely disputed by Uighur groups abroad, which say police fired on peaceful demonstrators. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

H1N1 Theory Reconsiders Origin

Staff / Truthdig Jun 24, 2009 A new theory puts the origin of the H1N1 virus not in Mexico, where right-wing anti-immigrant groups want it, but in Asia. Scientists explain that there has been no evidence demonstrating the virus in North American pigs, but plenty of evidence of a "sister virus" circulating in Asia. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Privatizing Health Care in the Third World

Staff / Truthdig Jun 19, 2009 For only $5 a month, you too can undermine a developing country's health infrastructure. Since 1990, foreign funding for "development assistance" has quadrupled, offering medical resources to the poor but also luring local health care workers away from government hospitals and toward more lucrative private companies. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hedgehog [A Cartoon From Austria]

Petar Pismestrovic, Kleine Zeitung, Austria May 27, 2009 Dig deeper

U.S. Fear, U.S. Folly in Afghanistan

William Pfaff / Truthdig Feb 20, 2009 Except for the brief NATO intervention in Kosovo and Serbia, all of the significant U.S. military expeditions since the Cold War have been fought against Asians, and we have lost nearly all of them. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Warren I. Cohen on China’s ‘Factory Girls’

BLANK Dec 5, 2008 There’s a revolution underway in Chinese culture as young women flock from villages to factory employment in the cities, leaving traditional values behind. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Markets Warm to Euro Bailout Plan

Staff / Truthdig Oct 13, 2008 Stock traders in Asia and Europe seemed to like the news that European governments will coordinate with one another as they throw cash at troubled banks. The euro zone plan was announced on the heels of similar British and American schemes. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )