All Articles on Sweden
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News Warming World Is Stripping the Future of 'Four Seasons' 'If we don't curb carbon emissions, Arctic Sweden might be more like the south of France by the end of the century.' Read more |
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Views It’s Time to Tax Financial Transactions On Friday at midnight, the sequester kicked in, triggering $85 billion in deep, dumb budget cuts that sent “nonessential personnel”— such as air traffic controllers — packing. Not to worry, though: Wall Street’s day was pretty much like any other. Billions of dollars in profits were made off of... Read more |
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Views Think There's No Alternative? Latin America Has a Few Not only have leaders from Ecuador to Venezuela delivered huge social gains – they keep winning elections too Read more |
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Views How to Gain Expertise in Recognizing Torture: Go to Law School There was a scarcely noted but classic moment in the Senate hearings on the nomination of John Brennan, the president’s counterterrorism “tsar,” to become the next CIA director. When Senator Carl Levin pressed him repeatedly on whether waterboarding was torture, he ended his reply this way: “I have... Read more |
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News Victory of Ecuadorian President Correa Hailed as 'Clear Mandate' to Continue Progressive Push Correa: 'This victory is yours. Everything for you, a people who have become dignified in being free.' Read more |
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News Image of Two Gaza Children Killed in Israeli Attack Wins World Press Photo Prize Haunting photo of Palestinian children's funeral Read more |
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News Draft Arctic Oil Spill Agreement 'Totally Inadequate' Environmentalists are warning that a meeting of environment ministers that took place Monday in Sweden has agreed on a weak and inadequate response plan in case of an oil spill in the Arctic Ocean. According to Greenpeace, an environment watchdog, a leaked copy of the document suggests that the... Read more |
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Views Stand Up for Julian Assange Last month, on December 13th, 2012, I visited Julian Assange, Australian founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, in the Ecuadorian embassy, in Knightsbridge, London. It’s been seven months now since Julian Assange entered the Ecuadorian embassy and was given political asylum. He entered the... Read more |
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News Opposition Claims Egyptian Referendum Rigged, Calls for Protest, Re-vote Vote on draft constitution to continue on Saturday Read more |
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News UN: Syrian Humanitarian Crisis to Double if Violence Continues President Bashar al-Assad denies 'civil war' Read more |