Global IssuesAnnouncement of new and updated content on the globalissues.org web site. GlobalIssues.org is a web site attempting to look at various global issues to show they are inter-related.One year on from the G8 Summit of 2005 that seemed to promise so much in the area of tackling poverty, what has been the status so far- June 10, 2006 It seems that some progress has certainly been made. For example, significant debt cancellation has allowed some countries to offer enhanced or even free health services to all. Yet, there are still many concerns. The fancy accounting and spin used by some countries to paint a positive picture or give the impression that more assistance has been delivered than what actually has risks discrediting the process, impacting the poor once more. This short article explores some of these concerns.http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/g8summit2005/oneyearon/ Bush Administration silencing its own climate scientists- June 5, 2006 At the beginning of 2006, New York Times reported on NASAs top climate scientist claiming he was being censored when talking about climate change. The BBC recently followed up with a documentary that looked into this apparently being the case on a wider scale.http://www.globalissues.org/EnvIssues/GlobalWarming/Intro.asp |