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ASEAN Summit in Bali
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Australia receives Obama
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APEC Summit from Honolulu
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Cannes G20: Can the corporations?
Madeleine - South Africa
Balkbacks - 5
World Population hits 7 Billion
- Video
Earthquake in Turkey
- Twitter feed
Occupy protests go international
Pat Morin - Canada
Balkbacks - 13
2011 Clinton Global Initiative
- Video
Puerto Rico receives Obama
- Video
El Salvador: International Women’s Day
Omar Nieto - El Salvador
Balkbacks - 3
Australian PM Gillard visits US
Pat Morin - Canada
Balkbacks - 4
Revolution spreads in Middle East
Martin - UK
Balkbacks - 5
Egypt and Tunisia uprisings
- Video
China President Hu in Washington
- Video
Hungarians oppose new speech & Internet restrictions
Marietta Le - Hungary
Balkbacks - 2
World countdowns to 2011
- Video
Has the time come for legal marijuana?
Brooker - Canada
Balkbacks - 11
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange: Oz Hero or Villain
Kevin Rennie - Australia
Balkbacks - 10
G20 underperforms again in Seoul
Martin - UK
Balkbacks - 5
Obama visits India, Indonesia
- Video
BP seeks an image rehab
Allison - USA
Balkbacks - 3
Global Economy? Not so fast
Pat Morin - Canada
Balkbacks - 4
Millennium Development Goals / UN Week in NYC
Allison - USA
Balkbacks - 2
What should be US policy in Afghanistan now?
DChauls - USA
Balkbacks - 10
Australia Still Waiting for a New Government
Kevin Rennie - Australia
Balkbacks - 2
Your friend the Nuclear Reactor...
Michael Roberts - USA
Balkbacks - 5
BP's Next Deal: Drill the Mediterranean
Allison - USA
Balkbacks - 5
BP Disaster: A nation’s summer rollercoaster?
...corporations run the rideAllison - USA
Balkbacks - 7
G20 gives Toronto a black eye
Pat Morin - Canada
Balkbacks - 6
2010 World Cup from South Africa
- Video
Detention of international graduate student TianTian Zhai
theorem - USA
Balkbacks - 20
Oil: At What Cost?
Madeleine - South Africa
Balkbacks - 10
Teva Pharmaceuticals: taking over the global generic market
Todd Curl - USA
Balkbacks - 5
World to Arizona; Wrong!
Pat Morin - Canada
Balkbacks - 29
What exactly is an optimal global population?
Madeleine - South Africa
Balkbacks - 15
Paraguay: Blog Media as a Change Agent
Belen Bogado - Paraguay
Balkbacks - 3
Governments Should Criminalize Abortion
mbart - Canada
Balkbacks - 120
America's Royalty: the wealthy
proudlib - USA
Balkbacks - 3
Still Better than "genocide" Olympics, I guess
Pat Morin - Canada
Balkbacks - 4
Attacking Iran
proudlib - USA
Balkbacks - 7
Iran roils the West again
Martin - UK
Balkbacks - 5
The Whole World is Watching: Obama State of the Union
R. Marika Markle - USA
Balkbacks - 12
Haiti Earthquake update
- Video
Google vs. China
Bob Chen - China
Balkbacks - 6
Copenhagen: a unique opportunity or destined to fail?
ronwer224 - Norway
Balkbacks - 28
'00 Decade at Close
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Balkingpoints.com maxim of the Global Economy;
In past generations the leaders of nations waged wars, out of competing economic interests.
In future generations the citizens of nations may make peace, out of common economic interests.