John Pilger's The New Rulers of the World tackles the double standards inherent in the politics of globalization. It sets out to explain something of the "new" order--the unholy alliance of business interests and imperial repression--and the importance of breaking the silence that protects great power and its manipulations.
While advocating regulatory reform and new rules on accounting and fraud, President George W. Bush yesterday said world leaders should rely on capitalism and free markets to see them through the financial turmoil.
The waters of the Yangtze have fallen to their lowest levels since 1866, disrupting drinking supplies, and posing a threat to endangered-species.
The government also revealed yesterday that the country's most prosperous province, Guangdong, has just had its worst year since 1949.But the immediate concern is the Yangtze, which supplies water to millions of people in a delta that accounts for more than 40% of China's economic output.
"Before 1996, we were short of water for three months of the year, but now there are only three months when we can use water as normal," Wu Chunping, the vice-manager of Jianli county's water utility, was quoted by Xinhua.
Via Guardian-Unlimited
The big-news is that Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni may be married now.
The second-biggest news is that, Nicolas-Sarkozy arrived in Saudi Arabia, one day before George-Bush himself arrived there.
“France wants to be Arabia’s friend, she wants to be the friend of the Arab world, a friend that does not preach-lessons, but that tells the truth.”
For the French president, “here in Saudi-Arabia the relationship of Islam to modernity is being tested.” This is why “France does not want to be just a strategic economic partner, but also a political partner for Saudi Arabia.”
Sakozy's remarks, Via Le Figaro
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