In Latin America, where growing numbers of people die each year taking a stand against violent land seizures and harmful environmental activities, an historic political agreement offers hope for earth’s defenders. It comes too...
The Mekong River, which sustains life for millions of people in Southeast Asia, is an increasingly valuable source of power for China’s leaders. They want to build a series of dams on the river...
Mexico’s new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is promoting a series of new socio-economic initiatives in the nation’s southernmost, and poorest, regions during the initial year of his six-year term in office. In states...
The people of Mexico must fight four wars to save their country, according to some observers. The first is a war on corruption; the second, criminality; the third, poverty; and the fourth, U.S. meddling....
In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its chief, Scott Pruitt, are doing the exact opposite of what they’re supposed to be doing. Their latest action is one more in a...
How much more money do billionaires need to be happy? The patterns of behavior in the global economy are disturbing. Those who manipulate the economy are helping themselves to more wealth all the time...
China / India / Japan / Politics & Economics
A new alliance is forming in Asia to offer an alternative to the massive infrastructure development initiative, known as One Belt, One Road, pushed by China’s leader, Xi Jinping, for the past two years....
The small island nation of the Maldives, 1,300 miles south of India, resting on a ring of coral reefs in the Indian Ocean, is the latest country at the center of an escalating fight...
In Mexico, officials are attempting to breathe new life into the once-powerful engine of the nation’s economy. They now are seeking investments from foreigners to re-vitalize the large and under-performing Mexican oil and gas...
Corn tortillas, along with rice and beans, are the most important foods in the diet of millions of people across Mexico. Analysts estimate the rate of consumption of corn tortillas in the country at...
