Hiroshima, Nagasaki Bombings Were Avoidable
GlobalNewsHub | IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
As the world inches towards tragic anniversaries of so far the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date, it is worthwhile asking whether there was really a need to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9, 1945: In fact, there is ample evidence that the U.S. dropped 'The Little Boy' and 'Fat Man' "on a nation that had been largely defeated and was trying to surrender", says Nuclear Age Peace Foundation president David Krieger*.
On August 14, 1945, Japan surrendered and World War II was over. American policy makers have argued that the atomic bombs were the precipitating cause of the surrender. Historical studies of the Japanese decision, however, reveal that what the Japanese were most concerned with was the Soviet Union's entry into the war.
Turbo Capitalism Overtakes Social Capitalism
By Roberto Savio* 
Global NewsHub | IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint | Other News
Someday we will have to reflect upon the impact the fall of the Berlin Wall had on the world for both winners and losers.
After the collapse of the Wall, Francis Fukuyama wrote the famous book, 'The End of History', where he stated that with the end of communism, capitalism was going to become an eternal reality. In a recent article in the New York Times (NYT), he however pleaded for limiting the excesses of corporations, the same corporations to which this newspaper dedicates several pages in its analyses.
Africa: Diversification is Key to Growth
By Jerome Mwanda
GloabalNewsHub | IDN-InDepth NewsReport
Though Africa is urbanizing at a fast rate, agriculture remains the most important sector of the continent's economy and will have to be its "driving engine out of poverty", according to a senior United Nations official.
Underscoring his point, UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Director-General Kandeh K. Yumkella says: Agriculture accounts for 65% of the continent's employment and 75% of its domestic trade.
Proliferation of Patents Hurts Public Interest
By Carlos M. Correa* 
GlobalNewsHub | South Centre
A proposal has been made to initiate a debate on 'patent quality' at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The expression patent quality ambiguously alludes to a growing problem, faced in both developed and developing countries alike: the overwhelming majority of patents are applied for and granted over incremental developments on existing technologies. Although the patent system is supposed to reward inventiveness, in many cases patents cover minor improvements or trivial ideas.
USA: Gun-Toting Suspect Planned Ahead For Months
By Ernest Corea* in Washington
GlobalNewsHub | IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
An arsenal of weapons and other materiel in the apartment of James Holmes, the suspect in the Aurora Atrocity, implied meticulous planning for a rampage, and aggressive preparations for its aftermath. Plans and preparations, which included stockpiling ammunition, are likely to have taken months. The apartment was booby trapped to kill the first person – probably a police officer – who would be expected to enter the apartment in search of the suspect and/or evidence.
'South China Sea' and Beijing's Naval Strategy
By Rodger Baker and Zhixing Zhang* 
GlobalNewsHub | Stratfor
Over the past decade, the South China Sea has become one of the most volatile flashpoints in East Asia. China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan each assert sovereignty over part or all of the sea, and these overlapping claims have led to diplomatic and even military standoffs in recent years.
Because the sea hosts numerous island chains, is rich in mineral and energy resources and has nearly a third of the world's maritime shipping pass through its waters, its strategic value to these countries is obvious. For China, however, control over the South China Sea is more than just a practical matter and goes to the center of Beijing's foreign policy dilemma: how to assert its historical maritime claims while maintaining the non-confrontational foreign policy established by former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1980.
Post-2014 Afghanistan Draws Focus
By Taro Ichikawa in Tokyo
GlobalNewsHub | IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
Japan is Afghanistan's second largest donor behind the United States. Since the Tokyo Conference in January 2002, it has provided $3.3 billion till the end of 2011, to support political processes, assist infrastructural, agricultural and industrial development, help meet basic human needs, and promote Afghan culture that has profoundly suffered in the past about three decades.
The Quest for a Fair Global Climate Policy
By Ramesh Jaura 
GlobalNewsHub | IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
Climate negotiators from around the world are wading through a jungle of multifarious vested interests to pave the way for substantive and forward-looking agreements at the next United Nations climate change conference from November 26 to December 7, 2012 in Doha, the capital of meanwhile ubiquitous soft power Qatar.
Rio+20 Was Not All In Vain
By Martin Khor*
GlobalNewsHub | South Centre
The UN Conference on Sustainable Development, more popularly known as Rio+20, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 1992 Earth Summit (concluded on June 22) with expressions of deep disappointment from broad sections of members of the media and the environmental NGOs, who saw little new commitments to action in the final text that was adopted by the heads of states and governments and their senior officials.
A World Without Land Degradation is Possible
By Ramesh Jaura 
GlobalNewsHub | IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
Luc Gnacadja has rock-solid reason to be upbeat: some 100 heads of state and government agreed at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development – better known as Rio+20 – to strive for "a land-degradation neutral world", characterised by zero growth in desertification.
In doing so they were responding to the UNCCD's clarion call in a "policy brief" for 'A Sustainable Development Goal for Rio+20: Zero Net Land Degradation'. The brief provides a snapshot of the world's land, explains causes and impacts of land degradation and suggests pathways to land-degradation neutrality.
Japan Finds it Hard to Abandon Nuclear Energy
By Richard Johnson
GlobalNewsHub | IDN-InDepth NewsReport
The restart of the Ohi nuclear reactor on July 1 in Fukui prefecture, near the centre of the Japan Sea Coast, points to a momentous trend nearly 15 months after the Fukushima meltdown, particularly as this is the first nuclear site to go back online since Japan shut down the last of the country's nuclear reactors in May 2012 because of security concerns.
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