Articles by RNW
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The Missing Monarch Butterflies and Monsanto’s Roundup
Warren Cornwall, Slate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
The butterfly’s life cycle is exquisitely synchronized to the seasonal growth of milkweed, the only plant its larvae will eat. In a game of hopscotch, successive generations of monarchs follow the springtime emergence of milkweed from Mexico as far north as Canada.
→ read full articleIke Was Right All Along: The Danger of the Military-Industrial Complex
Rupert Cornwell – The Independent,
24 Jan 2011
Fifty years ago, President Eisenhower warned of the danger of the ‘military-industrial complex’. The huge budget and reach of America’s modern defence industry has proved him correct.
→ read full articleVenezuela, Chile to Head New Latin American Bloc
RNW – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
Venezuela and Chile will head a new regional bloc that will include all countries in the Americas except Canada and the United States to be inaugurated in July 2011, Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry said. The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC, its Spanish-language acronym), will have among its goals tightening trade and institutional cooperation in the region, in step with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s so-called “Plan Caracas.”
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Rupert Cornwell in Washington – The Independent,
10 Mar 2010
Papandreou calls for new rules in talks at Oval Office on his country’s debt crisis. George Papandreou, the Greek Prime Minister, used a visit to the White House yesterday to press President Barack Obama for tighter regulation of the speculative trading blamed for intensifying the country’s debt crisis. Mr Papandreou set out his case at […]
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