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 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,...
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...
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 ...
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...
