Here is a rundown of the world's conflict trends and arms trade as well as a spot on Africa as a host of ever more resource-consuming complex, nasty conflicts. The deadly cost of the new warfare are the hallmarks of a 21st century conflict. Richard Norton-Taylor and Owen Bowcott report on the latest IISS Report. There have been no inspections of Iraq's reported nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs since the Government expelled United Nations inspectors 15 months ago. While the Administration says Hussein remains isolated, diplomatic efforts to set up a new inspection system have foundered.
Moral corruption abounds.
This is what Doctors Without Borders did to be politically correct. We must not forget that the biggest conflict of all is that between humankind and Nature. Industrial nations undermine the Kyoto Protocol 159 countries, rich and poor, signed up to the Kyoto protocol by which they agreed to reduce their gas emissions by five percent. On the U.S. involvement in Chile in 1973 While Chileans are learning about their dark history from the U.S. documents, American citizens are learning almost nothing about their own government's actions, writes Peter Kornbluh in Washington Post. The single most vexing problem for the region will be the lack of energy supplies on the part of China, Japan and Korea, and their consequent dependence on the nations of the Middle East.