Former US President Jimmy Carter discusses the prospects of a two-state solution for Israel and the West Bank and Gaza, as well as the United States' foreign policy toward Iran, in an interview conducted by Reza Aslan, author of “No god but God” and (...)
Xu Kuangdi, the powerful former mayor of Shanghai (1995-2001), was, along with former President and party chief Jiang Zemin and former Premier Zhu Rongji, part of the team responsible for China's economic takeoff. He spoke with Global Viewpoint (...)
Paul Samuelson, 93, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1970 and is professor emeritus at MIT. He was a student of Joseph Schumpeter at Harvard, and his nephew is former Harvard president Larry Summers, now President-elect Barack Obama's top (...)
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Barack Obama's profile, after all, is more familiar to the diverse population of today's (...)
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FOR 13 years each April, the international community has commemorated the anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda with a mixture of shame, contrition and solemn pledges not to let this most heinous of crimes happen again.
Such pledges are bound to be (...)