Issues of Global Import

7 April 2003


The Arab Street: So What?
For the past few years, experts have been telling the governments and media audiences of the West that the talk on the "Arab Street" was this, that and the other, and attention is warranted sooner than yesterday. Recent events have proved that, if the Arab Street even exists, it doesn't matter one bit, and never has. Click here to read Kensington's Opinion.

UN Trustees for Iraq: US and UK
Once the Saddam-ite regime is completely defeated, the US and the UK will endeavor to find a way to restore it to Iraqi rule that is at once acceptable to them, to the Iraqis and to the international community at large. Cutting this Gordian knot can be done, but so far, the obvious way has not been mentioned -- a UN trusteeship with the US and UK as joint trustees Click here for more.

Doha Round Fails to Fix Agricultural Trade
Doha, Qatar, has been in the news more in the last two weeks than in all of its history before. It is not only the headquarters of America's Central Command for the war on Iraq, but it is also the home of the Arabic-language news network al-Jazeera. Yet, the big news to come out of Doha this week might not have anything to do with the war or with its reporting. Instead, the failure of WTO negotiations on global agricultural trade may mean as much as the war, and to some developing states, even more. Click here to read why.