...n 2009, under McKibben’s leadership, 350.org coordinated what many news organizations claimed to be the largest globally coordinated rally in history. McKibben and 350.org went on to throw a “Global Work Party” on October 10, 2010 involving over 7,000 events in every country around the world except North Korea. Highly acclaimed for his passion and vision, McKibben continues to be a leading force in the movement against climate change. The Columbi...
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On October 7, 2010 the peace of the Sufi shrine in Karachi, a building with green and white mosaics ascending to a cupola, shattered in a double explosion from two suicide bombers, killing seven civilians and injuring 65 others. As the shrine’s tiles lay smashed in the street, the destroyed temple provided a visual symbol of a derelict Pakistani government torn apart by a new wave of violent domestic terrorism. Since 2005, militant organizations...
Illustrations by Ashley Lee On November 29, 2010, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan received an international human rights award named for Colonel Muammar Qaddafi in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. The award was a sign of international appreciation of Turkey’s foreign policy and domestic leadership in promoting “peace, justice and human rights.” In his acceptance speech during the award ceremony, Erdogan stated that the prize will furt...
...difficulty turning a profit there. Unsurprisingly, not everyone is happy with China’s green revolution. In a petition filed with Timothy Keeler, chief of staff in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, on September 9th, 2010 and supported by many members of Congress, the U.S. United Steelworkers Union accused China of violating World Trade Organization agreements that limit government subsidies of products intended for export. The union cla...
In the first half of 2010, investor confidence in several European nations plummeted. For years these nations had experienced debt accumulation and increasing budget deficits. Understanding the urgency of the crisis, virtually all Western European countries—even financially secure ones—implemented austerity programs and made efforts to decrease structural deficits. Despite the transnational support for austerity, the policy has been met with str...
Illustration by Nicci Yin In March 2010, Angel Francisco Castro Torres was riding his bike down a municipal road in Smyrna, Georgia, when he was pulled over by two police officers. They claimed the incident was nothing but a routine traffic stop procedure, but the stop was anything but ordinary. The officers demanded that Torres – a Mexican-American immigrant – show proof of his immigration status. When Torres failed to immediately produce adeq...
...to 300 million barrels – is to be exploited by Norwegian state oil company Statoil after a first hit last January, a discovery which was made possible thanks to the Barents Sea maritime delimitation treaty signed in September 2010. This Russian preference for negotiation with Norway may seem surprising, but it is actually the result of simple logic: If Russia could allow Norway to explore the Barents Sea by settling the territorial issue, Russia...
...to renew diplomacy in the Americas because of its lack of sustained attention and its utter incoherence. The bulk of Obama’s references to Latin America have been generalities. His National Security Strategy, published in May 2010, mentions the Americas poetically — he writes of developing allies “from the Americas to Africa; from the Middle East to Southeast Asia”—but devotes little attention to specific cases. His 2011 State of the Union addres...
There is a revolution in Kenya that parallels the banking system and the broadband revolution but is something entirely its own: the cellular revolution. There were only four million cellphone users three years ago in Kenya. In 2010, in a country of nearly 40 million people, there were over 25 million cellular subscribers. The effects of this revolution are being seen across the country. Contract laborers can now provide employers with a number...
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