The Globe and Mail

... Cleantech Summit, will hear from a high priest of green: the former environmental adviser to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Terry Tamminen. ...

... of the urgency of this mission,” said William Hartung, director of the New York based Arms and Security Initiative and a leading arms-control authority. ...

The next three to four weeks are "going to be crucial to the future of any potential US-Iran rapprochement," says Afshin Molavi, a fellow at the New America Foundation, in Washington. If the current tension leads to a kind of Tiananmen-style crackdown, ...

"They have not learned that ceasefires are imperfect but that you have to try and build on them," said Daniel Levy, a senior fellow at the New America ...

A trade deal is good for Colombian human rights (The Globe and Mail - Canada) Studies suggest increased trade may help improve human- and labour-rights deficiencies. In their recent book Trade Imbalance: The Struggle to Weigh Human Rights concerns in Trade Poliymaking (link), Susan Aaronson and Jamie Zimmerman argue that increased trade brings about increased "integrity rights," such as freedom from arbitrary imprisonment, torture and killings. ...

It is the world's longest pipeline, built during the Soviet era, and its official name is Druzhba, meaning Friendship.But given the nasty trade dispute between two former Soviet republics, which has disrupted refined oil and gas supplies to Europe, it could be renamed the Brinkmanship pipeline.At stake is the reliability of energy supplies from Russia flowing through Belarus to Europe. Also in question is the government of Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, referred to by the United… more