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Palestinian children fill plastic bottles and jerry cans with drinking water from a public tap at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in the southern Gaza Strip refugee camp  on September 23, 201. (Photo by Ahmed Deeb/wn)
(photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Co-operation in a world of scarce resources
Al Jazeera
| From competition among hunter-gatherers for wild game to imperialist wars over precious minerals, resource wars have been fought throughout history; today, however, the competition appears set to enter a new - and perhaps unprecedented - phase. As natural resources deplete, and as the earth's clim...
The seed emergency: The threat to food and democracy
(photo: WN / Marzena Jazowska)
The seed emergency: The threat to food and democracy
Al Jazeera
| The seed is the first link in the food chain - and seed sovereignty is the foundation of food sovereignty. If farmers do not have their own seeds or access to open pollinated varieties that they can save, improve and exchange, they have no seed sovereignty - and consequently no food sovereign...
The new geography of trade
Al Jazeera
| It is an article of faith that global trade will be an ever-growing presence in the world. Yet this belief rests on shaky foundations. Global trade depends on cheap, long-distance freight transportation. Freight costs will rise with climate change,...
WAR AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS: The Russia-China Veto: Will it Contribute to Reversing the Tide of Global Warfare?
GlobalResearch
| Mao Zedong famously declared that the “US is a paper tiger” and that in war, the people is paramount in winning and not weapons. Atomic weapons will not enable a country to win the war. If there was one statement that galvanised the Chinese people ...
TARGETTING IRAN: The Dogs of War are off the Leash
Axis of Logic
Israel to the US: 'We'll Give You the War, You Give Us the Cannon Fodder" | In meeting rooms in London, Tel Aviv and Washington the dice have been thrown: snake eyes. Flashback, 1963: When John F. Kennedy decided not to escalate the soon-to-be disast...
Britain’s Secret Proxy War in Syria
Axis of Logic
| The UK has been instrumental in consolidating relations between the disparate and isolationist opposition groups in Syria—not because the British elite want genuine democracy, of course, but because Syria’s President Assad would not acquiesce t...
FocusChina sulphur to rebound on peak fertilizer consumption season
ICIS
|    | By Natalie Hui | SINGAPORE (ICIS)--China’s sulphur prices may be in for a modest rebound because of a seasonal pick-up in sales of downstream fertilizer phosphates starting mid-February, market players said on Monday. | Demand...
Co-operation in a world of scarce resources
Al Jazeera
| From competition among hunter-gatherers for wild game to imperialist wars over precious minerals, resource wars have been fought throughout history; today, however, the competition appears set to enter a new - and perhaps unprecedented - phase. As ...
The seed emergency: The threat to food and democracy
Al Jazeera
| The seed is the first link in the food chain - and seed sovereignty is the foundation of food sovereignty. If farmers do not have their own seeds or access to open pollinated varieties that they can save, improve and exchange, they have no see...
Middleeast News
Bashar Jafaari, Permanent Representative of Syria to the UN, addresses a meeting of the General Assembly on the situation in his country, 13 February, 2012.
(photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras)
Syria rejects UN charges as Homs battered
Jakarta Globe
Syria flatly rejected UN charges of crimes against humanity on Tuesday, even as monitors said troops killed at least six civilians in the heaviest shelling of the protest city of Homs for days. | Navi Pillay, the top human rights representative at the United Nations, said on Monday that the world body's inaction had "emboldened" Syria's government ...
Saudi Oil
The Union Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee addressing at the Chicago Council of Global Affairs, in Chicago, on January 28, 2012.
(photo: PIB of India)
India won't scale down its petroleum imports from Iran: Pranab
DNA India
| India, which imports 12% of its oil from Iran, will not scale down its petroleum imports from Tehran despite US and European sanctions against the Islamic republic, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said. | "It is not possible for India to take any decision to reduce the imports from Iran drastically, because among the countries which can pro...



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